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Supported employment contracts

UK public sector · 52 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
52
Last 12 months
Median contract
£712k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£106m
46 of 49 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
46
Suppliers
48

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most supported employment contracts took 29% of them (15 of 52).
  • The median contract, £712k, is 2.5 times the median across social care contracts (£281k).
  • South West had the most contracts: 9, or 17% of the total.

Who buys supported employment

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Lincolnshire County Council2 contracts
  2. 2Surrey County Council2 contracts
  3. 3Sheffield City Council2 contracts
  4. 4NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board2 contracts
  5. 5Inverclyde Council2 contracts
  6. 6Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council2 contracts
  7. 7NHS North West London ICB1 contract
  8. 8NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board1 contract
  9. 9NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board1 contract
  10. 10Liverpool City Region Combined Authority1 contract

Top supported employment contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1South Yorkshire Housing Association4 contracts
  2. 2Standguide3 contracts
  3. 3Waythrough3 contracts
  4. 4INTUITIVE THINKING SKILLS LTD3 contracts
  5. 5Shaw Trust2 contracts
  6. 6The Growth Company2 contracts
  7. 7Recovery Connections2 contracts
  8. 8Pentreath Ltd2 contracts
  9. 9Pure Innovations2 contracts
  10. 10Novus2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

5Q4 2025*20Q1 202610Q2 202617Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 48 · Scotland 2 · Wales 2

South West9North West7Yorkshire and The Humber7South East6West Midlands5East Midlands4East of England4North East3London3Wales2Scotland2

What is included

Job coaching, employment specialists, work placements and in-work support that help disabled adults and young people find and keep paid work: supported employment for people with learning disabilities, autism or SEND, and Individual Placement and Support and similar specialist employment support for people with severe mental illness, working alongside mental health teams.

  • Supported Employment Quality Framework delivery
  • Supported employment for young people aged 16 to 25 with SEND
  • Job coaching and in-work support
  • IPS services embedded in secondary mental health teams
  • IPS lots for in-work and out-of-work participants
  • Specialist employment support for adults recovering from mental ill health

What is not included

  • Community mental health support (soc.supp.community-mental-health-support)
  • Day opportunities (soc.supp.day-opportunities)
  • Supported internships run by schools and colleges and generic employability programmes (another industry: education-training)

Often bought by the same buyers