Thank you all for your support and contributions, however, due to announcement of the Work Programme this site is no longer active.
You may however continue to browse old content.

Archive for June, 2009

New Deal fraud technique: “exiting”

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

The illegal act of: Acknowledging that regardless of the actual period of time the New Deal participant spends on the course they will get the full amount for the entire 13 weeks, unless they exceed their absence limit where they wont Short listing those who appear not to be able to make the entire 13 [...]

["New Deal fraud technique: “exiting”"] | 9 Comments!

New Deal fraud technique: "pre-signing"

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

This potentially fraudulent act involves: Bullying the client into signing… Blank documents or not filled in forms, Or Incomplete (but partially filled in) forms Giving the reason as to “save time”, “I will complete the rest later…” and this is typically enforced by inadequate time for the paperwork to reasonably be completed (such as someone [...]

["New Deal fraud technique: "pre-signing""] | 2 Comments!

New Deal fraud technique: “penciling”

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

The illegal act of: Filling in a document with pencil Getting the client to sign (either in pencil or pen) Later go over the pencil lines in pen to make a few modifications or rewriting the entire agreement Erase the pencil lines (if client signs with pencil go over it with a pen first) Or [...]

["New Deal fraud technique: “penciling”"] | 2 Comments!

New Deal fraud technique: "windowing"

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

The illegal forging act of: Creating a photocopy of a document with the signature you wish to use (thus to prevent marks created from the top of the pen making an impression on the original sheet which enables detection of fraud easier) Placing the photocopy against a window (hence where the name comes from) or [...]

["New Deal fraud technique: "windowing""] | 3 Comments!

New Deal should be subjected to a Serious Fraud Office inquiry

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

All New Deal training providers, past and present should be subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.  The fraud investigation can’t be conducted by the Department for Work and Pensions as they also fall under the suspicion of fraudulent activity and other acts of unlawful misconduct and requires an outside independent investigation.

["New Deal should be subjected to a Serious Fraud Office inquiry"] | 2 Comments!

Flexible New Deal or flexible New Deal?

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

Is it Flexible New Deal or flexible New Deal? (notice the lowercase f in flexible) I have noticed different providers and news sources have displayed Flexible New Deal differently, have I said it wrong saying Flexible New Deal instead of flexible New Deal? I am aware that its basically is New Deal 2.0 but I [...]

["Flexible New Deal or flexible New Deal?"] | 3 Comments!

New Deal ends in half of Great Britain

Posted on June 30th, 2009.

Since Monday, in half the country there will be no new referrals to New Deal. This could be due to implementing the Flexible New Deal or due to revelations of New Deal fraud we recently reported, as the Flexible New Deal (if contracts are signed on time) are not due to begin until October allowing [...]

["New Deal ends in half of Great Britain"] | 1 Comment so far

New Deal Scandal record hits DOUBLE on news of A4e Fraud

Posted on June 29th, 2009.

At only 19:55 BST the record number of unique visitors on this blog today has beaten the previous record a week ago (22nd June 2009) by 2 times and has tripled the daily average number of unique visitors. It seems everyone is very interested in the A4E fraud so we will bring more revelations on [...]

["New Deal Scandal record hits DOUBLE on news of A4e Fraud"] | 6 Comments!

New Deal fraud investigation: Reed in Partnership

Posted on June 28th, 2009.

Several years ago Reed in Partnership were investigated over 13 employees who has forged placements for those who had signed off to gain bonuses and also used the Employment Services data of New Deal candidates that found work outside of Reed to top up missed targets, totalling an expected multi-million pound fraud. This was back [...]

["New Deal fraud investigation: Reed in Partnership"] | 1 Comment so far

A4e to lose Flexible New Deal contract for fraud: other training providers also under investigation

Posted on June 28th, 2009.

The Department for Work and Pensions has been investigating Action 4 Employment and at least 2 other undisclosed training providers for fraud over the last 13 months – this comes after Maatwerk had their contract terminated for fraud. This means that even though they weren’t restricted or blacklisted from bidding for Flexible New Deal contracts: [...]

["A4e to lose Flexible New Deal contract for fraud: other training providers also under investigation"] | 20 Comments!

Guide to Decision Makers Guide (DMG)

Posted on June 22nd, 2009.

This is a quick guide on the Department for Work and Pensions‘ Decision Makers Guide…

["Guide to Decision Makers Guide (DMG)"] | 6 Comments!

Refuse New Deal VSO Programme Provision: NDYP ND25 IAP

Posted on June 21st, 2009.

It has came to our attention that the Department for Work and Pensions’ Executive Agency Jobcentre Plus is trying to push as many people in to the New Deal courses before it ends and become replaced with Flexible New Deal. This is NOT legit and you CAN get out of it. Read on.

["Refuse New Deal VSO Programme Provision: NDYP ND25 IAP"] | 8 Comments!

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell MP

Posted on June 10th, 2009.

Well, not any more…

["Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell MP"] | No Comments: Be the first!

DWP Corruption? The Campaign Against DWP Corruption

Posted on June 10th, 2009.

The Independent Watchdog for the Department for Work & Pensions We hope you’ll find us a useful resource in helping to recognize, combat and raise awareness of abuse of power involving the UK government’s largest department, a department dependent upon a sea of civil and judicial servants, we repeatedly find not doing their job properly. [...]

["DWP Corruption? The Campaign Against DWP Corruption"] | No Comments: Be the first!

Welfare Reform: Criticism

Posted on June 8th, 2009.

I was reading a great article on Welfare Reform (the Welfare Reform Bill 2009) however I greatly disagreed with the points made in the article so I decided to quote sections of it and comment! The Welfare Reform Bill is to be a tough piece of legislation that will compel people in meeting with their [...]

["Welfare Reform: Criticism"] | 18 Comments!

£187,500: how much it cost Taxpayers to get a Jobseeker off the dole

Posted on June 7th, 2009.

£187,500 This is the amount it cost Taxpayers to get a single Jobseeker of the dole. This is the bombshell that stuck the final nail in the coffin of New Deal. A scheme setup by Gordon Brown for New Labour aiming to get less people claiming unemployment benefits and stop living a “life on benefits” [...]

["£187,500: how much it cost Taxpayers to get a Jobseeker off the dole"] | 11 Comments!

Coward: James Purnell MP resigns prior to Flexible New Deal

Posted on June 6th, 2009.

So on June 4th prior to when the election polls closed, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions: James Purnell MP cowardly stepped down, leaving Welfare Reform up in the air and Flexible New Deal future uncertain. What is certain though, the official announcement for successful candidates winning the Flexible New Deal contracts are to [...]

["Coward: James Purnell MP resigns prior to Flexible New Deal"] | No Comments: Be the first!

YMCA Training traded without planning permission over 6 months

Posted on June 3rd, 2009.

It has been discovered that Dencora House in Ipswich, a training centre run and rented by YMCA Training didn’t have planning permission for over 6 months.  To run a training centre you require D1 planning consent. Dencora House and it’s 10 units all had B1 Offices planning consent.  When YMCA Training, one of the largest [...]

["YMCA Training traded without planning permission over 6 months"] | 2 Comments!

YMCA Training files Human Rights violation dismissal under Health & Safety

Posted on June 3rd, 2009.

YMCA Training who has dismissed a New Deal participant in just little over 30 minutes of the New Deal course Induction Week due to conflict of personal opinion (breach of the “Freedom of Expression”/”Freedom of Speech” and “Freedom of Thought”/”Freedom of Conscience” Human Rights) has justified their reason as such views were a “Health and [...]

["YMCA Training files Human Rights violation dismissal under Health & Safety"] | 1 Comment so far

YMCA Training bans Jobseekers right of Freedom of Conscience

Posted on June 2nd, 2009.

So… the Government sticks the unemployed who are out of work more than 6 months on to an intensive course called New Deal which is contracted out to organisations such as faith organisation YMCA Training who are supposedly meant to stick New Deal participants in work placements to gain experience and help them find employment. [...]

["YMCA Training bans Jobseekers right of Freedom of Conscience"] | 1 Comment so far

|

Topics

Archives

Flexible New Deal

Some portions copyright © 2009, New Deal Scandal and the rest are copyright © 2010, Flexible New Deal Scandal. RSS Feeds are for personal use only.

Do not copy articles or comments without permission!

Feel free to link to blog posts. If you link to an article and we receive a trackback we will accept it (unless the article is automated spam). Some posts and comments are imported from the old New Deal Scandal website after it closed.

Feel free to get in touch: flexiblenewdeal [at] live [dot] co [dot] uk and tell us about your experiences of Flexible New Deal!

It is official! There are 10,706,647 irresponsible people with the right to vote in this country.
  • Blog Statistics

    ==Unique Visitors==

    Previous Blog: 40,104
    (since 1st Nov 2009)
    Total Visitors: 159256

    Site is no longer maintained.

  • RSS

    Feeds are no longer available.
    Website has reached End of Life.

    Job Search

    What Job?
    job position title, keywords or company name
    Where
    city or town

    Flexible New Deal Scandal
    Not giving up in protecting YOU the unemployed from workfare ("Work for Your Benefit"), corruption, poverty and those Con-servative bastards!