Tag Archives: Workfare

Five things the government won’t tell you about Workfare

By James Bloodworth | Published: March 19, 2013

The Department of Work and Pensions today rushed through emergency legislation to ensure that job-seekers unfairly sanctioned by their policies are unable to claim compensation. This provides an opportunity to look at how utterly infective they have been at getting people into work.

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Welfare to work scheme failing, say MPs

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 22, 2013

The government’s welfare-to-work scheme has been branded ‘extremely poor’ by MPs, who said the best performing provider only moved 5% of people off benefit and into work.

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Poundland ‘breached forced labour laws’

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 12, 2013

Poundland has lost a case in court and has been found to have breached forced labour laws

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Comment: Boris’s ‘workfare’ programme represents a shameful lack of care for young people

By Guest | Published: November 28, 2012

Even after the very public failings of the government’s Work Programme, Boris Johnson is pushing forward with his own mandatory work experience scheme.

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The government’s Work Programme (still) isn’t working

By Ben Phillips | Published: July 9, 2012

New ONS figures reveal that the number of long-term unemployed has more than doubled since May 2010: a new milestone in the Work Programme’s litany of failure.

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After Jubileegate: Five reasons why the Work Programme gets it wrong

By Ben Phillips | Published: June 6, 2012

The scandal surrounding the exploitation of unpaid stewards at the jubilee celebrations is the latest object lesson in the Work Programme’s many systemic flaws.

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Fired! Government gives disgraced A4e the boot

By Shamik Das | Published: May 15, 2012

The government has stripped A4e of its welfare-to-work contract following fraud and corruption allegations and a series of arrests, reports Shamik Das.

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Breaking down the Youth Contract

By Guest | Published: April 2, 2012

As Nick Clegg formally launches the Youth Contract today, Izzy Koksal explains how everybody, taxpayers and the unemployed alike, are getting a rough deal.

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New report reveals “devastating evidence of systemic fraud within A4e”

By Shamik Das | Published: March 22, 2012

A leaked internal A4e document has revealed evidence of “systemic fraud” at the company, BBC Newsnight’s Paul Mason revealed tonight.

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The document A4E doesn’t want you to see

By Left Foot Forward | Published: March 5, 2012

An internal A4e document suggests A4e’s work programme performance has been poor. We round up the evidence and allow readers to make up their own mind.

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