Home Office Reintegration Programme

To support the Home Office's key priorities of tackling illegal migration, removing those with no right to be here and protecting the vulnerable; the department is seeking a provider(s) to deliver reintegration services to support returning individuals from the United Kingdom (UK) in a number of countries.

Reintegration is a key component of Objective 21 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to 'cooperate in facilitating safe and dignified return and readmission, as well as sustainable reintegration' with the Home Office seeking to reduce the burden on states when receiving their nationals and help them to become self-sufficient and reintegrate sustainable.

Countries of operation are:
1 Albania
2 Bangladesh
3 Ghana
4 India
5 Iraq
6 Jamaica
7 Nigeria
8 Pakistan
9 Vietnam
10 Zimbabwe

The Home Office invites bids from non-statutory sector organisations that are charities and non-profit making organisations in England and Wales and overseas to provide:

• Pre-departure information – produce information sheet with country specific information and provide opportunity to contact bidder directly.
• Provision of care hygiene packs and PPE along with covid testing if required.
• Meet and greet at the airport – meet returning individuals at the airport of arrival to address immediate needs.
• Access to temporary accommodation upon arrival (for 5 nights but total number of nights can be determined with potential bidder should country context permit).
• Onward transportation to in-country destination.
• Signposting to locally available services, such as housing, health services, social support, educational support, legal services, redocumentation and financial services.
• Family tracing and reunification.
• Support with setting up a business or educational opportunity.
• Entrepreneurship fund, including co-payment between the returning individual and the bidder to establish a business opportunity.
• Assist with returning individuals obtaining the necessary documentation/ID.
• Psychosocial counselling focusing on the mental wellbeing of returning individuals.
• Support with job counselling and access to the local labour market.
• Management of an entrepreneurship fund (amount to be determined).
• Legal migration pathways and ethical recruitment.
• Monitoring and evaluation of returning individual's reintegration outcomes

The Home Office welcomes applications from those organisations who:
• can demonstrate a strong understanding of reintegration and the associated activities entailed within this space.

• willingness to work with returning individuals who have been convicted in the UK criminal justice system (Foreign National Offenders).

• have a strong track record of safeguarding and adherence and safeguarding processes/modern slavery.