CLOSED: Supported Employment Initiatives - Liverpool City Region (OC22S19P1342)

Call to run a project designed to provide support to and increase the employability of people with learning difficulties and disabilities in the Liverpool City Region.

This call is now closed. Please do not submit an application for this call. The information provided on this page is for reference purposes only.

Details

The project should focus on supported internships, which are designed to provide meaningful and paid work experience for people and help them gain the skills they need to secure work. Project proposals should reflect how they will support people with learning difficulties and disabilities; these are expected to include:

  • people without English, Maths, IT qualifications at Level 2;
  • people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds;
  • people returning to the labour market following parental or caring responsibilities; and
  • people with experience of the care system.

The aim of this call is to support participants’ progression into and within the labour market, allowing them to achieve equality of opportunity. Projects must deliver additional, innovative and more intensive provision that meets the needs of people with learning difficulties and disabilities who may also have other potential barriers, and the needs of local labour markets.

Applications are encouraged from consortia or other similar types of partnership arrangements.

For more information, download the call specification.

Location

The project must cover the Liverpool City region LEP Area.

Value

Approximately £2.5m of funding is available.

Deadlines

Full application deadline: 5 June 2019

Completion date

The project must be completed no later than 3 years and 6 months after the proposed start date.

How to apply

To apply for funding under this call you will need to complete and send the Full Application form to the email address provided in the call document. The guidance provides information to help you complete the form.

You are also advised to read the details in the call documents in order to produce an application that complies with the requirements and meets the needs set out in the Operational Programme. All this information, the related guidance and the European Social Fund Operational Programme can be found from our homepage.

Where to send completed applications

Completed Full Applications must be submitted to 2014-2020.esfapplications@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

Failure to send completed applications to this email address by the deadline in the call specification will be ineligible for consideration.

Contact details

Contact esf.2014-2020@dwp.gsi.gov.uk with queries linked to accessing or using the specification, forms, guidance etc.

No applications are to be sent to this email address. Completed applications must be sent to the email address provided in the ‘Where to send completed applications’ section above / Section 9 of the Call Specification.

Published 20 March 2019
Last updated 6 June 2019 + show all updates
  1. Supported Employment Initiatives - Liverpool City Region (OC22S19P1342) is now closed.

  2. The Call Specification for project call OC22S19P1342 has been amended to remove a result.

  3. First published.