Remploy and Specialist Colleges
Davina Jones – Business Development Manager, National
Star College
Mark Lunn – Business Development Director, Remploy
Government Services
The Remploy you thought you knew: Enterprise Businesses
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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.
The market leader in Workchoice
April 2012
30%
Job outcome rate
Remploy ES
25%
Pluss
20%
CDG Wise Ability
Advance
Working Links
15%
Momentum
Shaw Trust
Ingeus UK
10%
Seetec
5%
0%
10%
20%
30%
Market share
40%
50%
60%
Some of our partner employers...
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?
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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 025805
Clive Brown: clive.brown@remploy.co.uk: 07795 541053
Any Questions?