About Us
Prospects leading in education, employment and training
Prospects is an employee owned mutual company, working nationally and internationally in partnership with public, private and voluntary sector organisations, managing and delivering education, employment and training services.
Key facts
Prospects achieved a turnover of £76.94m in 2010 – 2011, employs 1,300+ staff from 60-plus bases in over 30 local authority areas. Our contracts are mainly in the public sector, with local authorities, Skills Funding Agency, Ofsted, Department for Education, Department for Work & Pensions, other government departments and agencies, non-governmental public bodies, colleges and schools.
Prospects’ services and projects are usually output-related and evidence-based, and have annual values from under £10,000 to several £million.
Welfare to Work
Prospects is the Prime Contractor for the Work Programme, the government's largest ever initiative to help unemployed people back to work, in the South West (covering Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset). We are also a major subcontractor for the Programme in East London and in Bristol.
We are on the Department for Work and Pensions DWP ERSS (Employment Related Support Services) Provider Framework, a Prime Contractor in the South West (value £51m), and a large subcontractor in London, for the Work Programme, the largest ever government welfare to work initiative. Supplier to DWP/Jobcentre Plus for 12 years, Community Task Force Prime Contractor; delivering DWP and local authority welfare to work and related services in London, Birmingham, Yorkshire, South West and West of England.
Careers services for young people
As the largest national supplier of information, advice and guidance careers services, we work in eighteen local authority areas; providing universal and targeted services (intensive support for vulnerable young people with special needs, learning difficulties and other disadvantages).
National Careers Service
We provide information, advice and guidance career services as the Prime Contractor for National Careers Service in Greater London. We are also delivering these services with partners in Yorkshire and Humber and as a major sub-contractor in the South West, Midlands and Hereford and Worcester.
To visit the National Careers Service website click here.
Ofsted inspection
One of only two Ofsted Early Years Inspection Service providers, covering the Midlands and North.
Events
Prospects Events is the largest national provider of careers and skills events including Skills London and Skills Scotland and visitor recruitment and exhibition marketing for World Skills 2011. We are also responsible for the visitor and exhibitor recruitment for The Worldskillsuk, Skills Show.
Education services
Our services for schools and colleges include consultancy; training; school improvement; inspection preparation; education resource materials, publications, careers information, web design, equipment; Leading Parent Partnership Award (involving parents fully in their children's education); services to independent sector through Gabbitas.
Employer facing services
Recruitment through CfA, providing services both within the company and outside. Prospects Professional Training & Consultancy delivers training and workforce development; vacancy handling, research and evaluation, quality improvement, surveys, psychometric testing, regeneration initiatives.
Public service mutuals
Prospects offers expert advice, consulting, joint ventures and partnership for organisations considering becoming public service mutuals.
Quality
Prospects holds many recognised quality standards e.g. Investors in People, DWP approved supplier, "Positive about Disabled People", CHAS, matrix; ISO9001/ISO14001/ISO27001.
Prospects Services Ltd, a company limited by guarantee.
Registered in England and Wales. Registration number 3042176
Registered Office: Prospects House, 19 Elmfield Road, Bromley, Kent BR1 1LT