WCVA has published details of the organisations that have successfully joined the Engagement Gateway and Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) approved supplier lists for Convergence areas.

The organisations whose pre qualification questionnaires (PQQ) were approved will now be eligible to tender for contracts – and the first invitations to tender will be issued this month.

The Engagement Gateway and Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) schemes are now open for business in the Regional Competitiveness and Employment (RCE) areas of East Wales.

The schemes, boosted by £10m from Europe and the Welsh Assembly Government, will invest in organisations that give people facing barriers to employment the skills and opportunities to get back into work.

WCVA is holding a series of briefing events for organisations interested in joining the approved supplier lists for the Engagement Gateway and Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) schemes.

The events follow the launch of the schemes in the Regional Competitiveness and Employment (RCE) areas of East Wales.

Click here to watch John Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Skills, announce the expansion of Gateway and ILM into Regional Competitiveness and Employment areas.

Two projects investing over £40 million to help economically inactive people back into the labour market and into learning will receive a £10 million boost, John Griffiths, Deputy Minister for Skills has announced.

The funding boost for WCVA's Engagement Gateway and North Wales Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) projects will enable the schemes to be rolled out to support people in East Wales.

Two WCVA schemes that are making over £40m of European funds available to organisations working in Convergence areas of Wales are being extended to the Regional Competitiveness and Employment areas of East Wales.

The Engagement Gateway and Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) schemes have recently been given the go-ahead to roll out the programme in Flintshire, Wrexham, Powys, Monmouthshire, Newport, Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

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