flexible New Deal

FND is a flexible, 'black box' replacement for all New Deal provisions except NDDP and NDLP, due to start running from 2009. Providers are paid on sustained job entries and have the freedom to decide what their customers will do. This article sets out the key features of FND. The list below covers all the stories on the Indus Delta site that mention Flexible New Deal.

JSA Claim, Can they put me back to stage 4 straight away?

Hi All,

i was on JSA for 1 year then i moved in with my partner, she was claiming ESA so claimed for me! (and my New Flexible Deal search finished because of this in June 2011) after 6 weeks her claim was ended so i made a new claim of JSA for the two of us, as my circumstances had changed it was treated as a NEW claim not a fast track one, and was put on JSA but they have said i am still on stage 4 ?? not sure if this can be right as is definatly classed as a new claim 6 weeks ago when i made it !

FND staff who are not deemed TUPE eligible to WP

Are you currently working on FND but have been told you are not TUPE eligible to Work Programme, either by your current employer or the Prime/their subbies?

Do you feel you are being left behind and feel let down?

Have you been told why TUPE does not apply from FND to WP in your area? Is it due to fragmented provision (not end to end) or another reason?

Becoming a Supplier or Sub-Contractor for LVP

We are just in the process of setting up a Construction Training School to open Spring 2011 primarily teaching Plastering. The school will cover all areas ie private sector non qual and accredited courses as well as hopefully 14-16 year olds and school leavers. Plastering training in our area is non existent and much needed. Researched this very thoroughly and we certainly have found a niche.

My husband who will be doing the training has plenty of experience teaching the trade to the unemployed, 14-16 year old children and obviously young adults.

So what happens to New Deal that should have been replaced by Flexible New Deal that now will be replaced by Works Programme??

I currently deliver Literacy and Numeracy on the New Deal programme. We always knew that this programme would end this October and were led to believe that it would be replaced by the Flexible New Deal. With all that out the window, what happens in the meantime BEFORE the new, all encompassing contract comes in next summer?

A Tory education market and lessons from the welfare to work industry

You’d think that schools were why we humans invented government. Schools, defence, roads and police… oh and rubbish collection of course. Collective services for the public good. Services that don’t lend themselves to individual provision due to their cost, scale and fundamental role in underpinning a safe and productive society. Without them, life would be poor, nasty, brutish, and short (or in the case of bins, really smelly).

But as announced on Tuesday, the Tories want to free up the school system and create a market for education provision. This is from their manifesto:

FND2 - deadline stretched to April 23 ... DWP opens-up all CPAs to rebidding

The deadline for submitting revised pricing schedules for FND2 has been extended to April 23rd following representations by shortlisted prime contractors. In a surprise move, DWP also says that shortlisted Primes may consider bidding for other CPAs.

FND 2 - estimated client volumes plunge - bidders asked to revise proposals

Prime contractors bidding for phase 2 of Flexible New Deal have received startling news. In a letter dated 23rd March, DWP announced they have sharply reduced the planning assumptions about the number of clients eligible for the programme. The 5 year totals drop to just a half of the original volume on which tenders were submitted. Bidders have now been asked to provide revised pricing proposals and to confirm whether this change makes "any material impact on tenders". In many cases, the latest planning volumes are less than half the originally predicted numbers.

Tell BBC Radio 4 about New Deal and FND experience

The producers of BBC Radio 4's "File on Four" are preparing a programme about welfare reform and New Deal. They would like to hear views (good and bad) from New Deal and FND clients.

Services available to FND contractors

As a manager of local authority employability provision, I would be interested to hear views on whether FND contractors should have free access to local authority funded non-statutory services?

The arguments -

We dont want any residents to miss out on services that could help them enter employment.

However, our services could be viewed as assisting contractors to make a profit - a profit they will not re-invest in the areas infrastructure.

Is there a case for local authorities charging FND contractors and on what basis?

Thoughts?

Centre visit - i2i's Manchester FND delivery

In the last of the current series of site visits, I visited i2i's Manchester FND delivery centre earlier this week. As a subcontractor to Serco, I thought it might be interesting to see how they are finding the move from delivering the Gateway stage of New Deal over to FND.

People being grumpy about Flexible New Deal

This forum contains comments and discussion moved from elsewhere in the site that is primarily complaints about Flexible New Deal. The original New Deal has its own discussion elsewhere to prevent confusion between the two. There's an article outlining the difference between FND and New Deal here if you'd like to know more. Just for the record, moving comments here doesn't imply endorsement of them.

Remploy's WORKSTEP delivery

Before Christmas I went to visit Remploy's Waterloo branch, where they deliver WORKSTEP. The organisation has changed and branched out a lot in the last few years, and it was interesting to see their welfare to work side in action first hand

FND 2 Dates - anyone know?

Hi

Does anyone know the timeline dates for FND Phase 2, having looked through all the info I have I can only find vague references, such as preferred bidder annouced late april, starts in October etc..

Very difficult to provide specific dates in Q's for JCP if they can't tell us when it starts!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A4e's FND delivery

Moving back to FND, last Tuesday I visited A4e's FND delivery centres in Wolverhampton and Dudley to see how they've adapted to the new contract.

FND phase 1 subcontractor list - by provider

Updated 10/12 - This story started out as a list of all subcontractors for everyone everywhere on FND1, but thanks to an FoI response received by Steph at W2W Solutions, and some judicious reconstruction of redacted information, we've now got a complete list of which providers put which subcontractors in each area. These are the lists that were included at the point of tendering, and not the ones that have actually ended up delivering in each area.

I've got a request in progress for an up to date list, broken down by prime and CPA. In the meantime, be aware that some primes had to redo their subcontracting pretty much from scratch after winning FND.