Free to employers. Managed end to end. Built to make placements stick.
If you are responsible for filling vacancies, or for evidencing a social value commitment, the Social Recruitment Framework (SRF) does both jobs at once. Since 2018 it has moved 14,000+ people into work across 200+ employers and 800+ UK locations, and it costs employers nothing.
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What you get
The SRF is a managed service rather than a referral scheme, and the difference is material. You are not sent a stack of CVs to sift. One point of contact at PeoplePlus manages the whole process:
Pre-employment training designed around your vacancies.
Candidates complete sector-based training (SWAPs) matched to the roles you actually need to fill, funded through government skills programmes.
A guaranteed interview.
Every candidate who completes the training gets one. You meet people who are prepared, motivated and already trained for your environment.
Coordination handled for you.
We manage candidate attraction, training providers, funding routes and interview scheduling. Your team turns up to interview.
Support that continues after day one.
In-work support is built in, because the first six weeks are where placements are won or lost. Retention is measured, not assumed.
What it delivers
BT recruited 108 people through the SRF, reduced attraction costs by £18,000 and improved first-year retention by 29%.
Lidl hired 50+ people from long-term unemployment.
Teleperformance sourced 44% of its remote workforce through the SRF in 2025, with the lowest attrition rates of any of its providers.
Lower cost per hire, better retention, and a social value contribution that is evidenced rather than promised.
How it works
- Tell us your hiring needs. Roles, volumes, locations, start dates.
- We design the route in. Training built with our provider network around your vacancies, drawing on the roughly £10 billion invested each year in UK adult training and employment programmes.
- You interview prepared candidates. Guaranteed interviews for everyone who completes.
- We stay involved. In-work support, retention tracking, and a single point of contact throughout.
One connected network
Behind the SRF sits a network of 50+ training and employability providers, thousands of employers and local authorities, sharing more than 30,000 vacancies in 2026. For employers it means real local reach without managing dozens of relationships. For the people we support, it means the training they complete leads to a real interview for a real job.
The social value case
Hiring through the SRF supports several themes in the Government’s Social Value Model, including employment and training for people who face barriers to work, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups, and creating high quality jobs. If you are answering a social value question in a tender, SRF delivery gives you evidence, not intentions. Our Partner Services team can help you build it into a bid: social value solutions design and delivery →
Start with your next vacancy
Send us the roles you are struggling to fill, or the social value commitment you need to deliver, and we will come back with a plan.
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