Remploy and Specialist Colleges

Davina Jones – Business Development Manager, National Star CollegeMark Lunn – Business Development Director, Remploy Government Services

The Remploy you thought you knew: Enterprise Businesses

• Operating as a Sheltered Employer for 65 years.• Network of 54 factory-based businesses across the UK.• Direct employment of nearly 3,000 disabled people.• Provide trainee placements for skills development.• Produce and deliver world-class products and services across a

range of sectors, much being for military or Government use.• Limited engagement in mainstream employment, skills, service

provision in the community.• Secure revenue from a pipeline of DWP revenue.

....and the one that you might not know: Employment Services

• 48 high street Branches right across the UK.• Over 20,000 disabled people helped into mainstream employment

per year.• National engagement with major employers.• Over 40,000 vacancies managed per annum for national employers.• Largest and most successful Prime Contractor for Workchoice.• Significant Work programme sub-contractor.• Operating Access to Work Mental Health contract nationwide.• Over £19 million of disabled support work under tender at present.• Increasingly a service provider to local authorities and looking to

grow partnerships with colleges.

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The Sayce Review

‘The Department should, by the end of the current Spending Review, have introduced a new model for Remploy, and Government funding should be invested in effective support for individuals, rather than subsidising factory businesses’:

• Remploy Enterprise Businesses should be given the opportunity – with expert support – to become successful businesses free from Government control. Where this is not an option, and businesses cannot continue, individual employees should be offered guaranteed and active support to secure employment, training, or other community activity.

• Remploy Employment Services should in future secure Government funds only by competing for contracts like other providers.

The Sayce Review ...progress so far

Enterprise Businesses 36 sites proposed for closure in 2012. 18 identified for potential privatisation in 2013. Over 2,000 potential redundancies.

Employment Services Potential to move out of Government Ownership, possibly to a

Social Enterprise – currently under review by DWP. Plan for growth as a provider of specialist disability employment

support

Employment Services

• Our future aim:

– To work as a strategic partner to government, and other expert partners to increase employment rates for disabled people.

We will do this by: - delivering services for Government that support disabled people to

find and retain employment.– developing services in partnership with government, both national

and local, using our knowledge of what works to improve the employment rate for disabled people; and

– influencing government through evidence based research to develop more effective policies that increase the employment rate for disabled people.

Our Goals

• Moving from being a ‘welfare to work’ provider to a ‘disability employment support specialist’: – offering a service to any public sector body/commissioner who wishes to

add value to disabled people moving them closer and into employment• moving from approximately 5 income streams to 11 with multiple

contracts with each, (e.g. 400+ Local Authorities is within one income stream)

• A range of contract sizes, from £20,000 local opportunities up to £50m + ‘Work Programme’/ Future Work Choice contracts.

• Creating a more stable contract base for ES in the long term• Massive change in terms of range and type of contract, and a

challenge about skillset: but a transformation around security of income long term (our eggs in many baskets).

• Using our experience and partnerships to support more disabled people into employment

What do we do?

• Prime contractor, managing services• iRemploy and on-line solutions• Profiling (Ability profiler)• Welfare to work Services• Consultancy• Policy and process development• Market Information• Careers advice in schools and colleges• Embedded Adviser models• Internships

Any other services that assist us to increasing the percentage of disabled people working, closer to the UK average

Our Candidate Focus

• Reaching those with more complex barriers and higher support needs– Severe and enduring mental health– Moderate to severe learning disabilities– Specialist services delivered buy us and a supply chain

• Offering a service that both adds value to the candidate but also saves public money, improves services, creates a societal change and provides both commercial and social return– E.g. Saving on welfare/ daycare costs through transition to employment.– Reforming ways of working for our funders: e.g. Embedding advisors to

work within a Pain Clinic.– Supporting housing associations & disabled residents through Welfare

Reform

How does that involve you?

• We are keen to forge partnerships that offer greater support to move more disabled people into sustained work, be that

– Bidding partnerships– Engagement and support in employer engagement– Using our products

And any other bright ideas you may have!

Mark Lunn: mark.lunn@remploy.co.uk; 07775 025805Clive Brown: clive.brown@remploy.co.uk: 07795 541053

Any Questions?