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Provider Appointment \u2013 Financial Wellbeing Service<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1.0 Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

This brief outlines the requirements of the Stafford and South Staffordshire Building Better Opportunities Programme for a Financial Wellbeing Service. The brief begins with an outline of the project followed by a description of the scope of the services needed.\u00a0 Finally, the brief includes the tender submission form which needs to be completed and returned by the submission deadline.<\/p>\n

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2.0 Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Big Lottery is using its own resources to match against European Union (EU) funding to create a fund aimed at delivering against the \u2018Promoting Social Inclusion and Combating Poverty\u2019 part of the current European Social Fund (ESF) programme, launched in 2015.\u00a0 The funding will be delivered in the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area according to local priorities through three relatively small but highly targeted, projects. BES was awarded \u00a32.3m in January 2017 to work with its delivery partners to deliver the programme in the South Staffordshire Council and Stafford Borough Council areas.\u00a0 We have just entered the fifth year of delivery and, having achieved the majority of our targets to date, have been awarded a further \u00a32.2m to continue delivery to September 2022 with the expectation of a further extension to June 2023.<\/p>\n

The programme aims to support those furthest from the labour market in overcoming barriers to employment, which, typically, fall within the following broad categories:<\/p>\n