Labour Market Insight specialists, Emsi explains how good local knowledge may prove crucial to a successful bidder in the prison education framework Invitation to Tender now live in the UK. “One of the areas that is likely to mark out a successful bid from an unsuccessful one, is the ability of a provider to demonstrate competence in understanding and identifying the skills needs of employers in a prison area,” it says. By demonstrating that they are capable of establishing ‘occupation demand’ at the Lot region level, those assessing the bid are far more likely to have confidence in that provider’s competence to provide appropriate training that “matches more closely the needs of the local labour market.” For the full article and a download to the free guide see fenews.co.uk here.