After the second A4e attempt to censor this blog we are back. Lets presume it wont be long before they try something else. The post in dispute is back again.
["New Deal Scandal is here to stay (for now anyway)"] | 1 Comment so farUnfair charges We have all heard about the Jobseekers Allowance Scandal, how LHA rates in most areas have fell dramatically while the rent prices have not decreased by so much and now today, we at New Deal Scandal expose the unfair charges that estate agents such as JSM Property (who were lucky to be featured, [...]
["Housing Poverty: action required now!"] | 1 Comment so farA4e should give up trying to censor blogs like this one. For one, this is hosted in America for an American company and thus under American law they are NOT liable for the content contained within – so please stop harrassing them. They are only the middleman/service provider, not the publisher, I am. Metropolitan International School [...]
["Internet Censorship: Why A4e should take a leaf out of Metropolitan International School's book"] | 2 Comments!Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” blog. This might be easier to some then using WordPress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes.
["New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet"] | No Comments: Be the first!UKBIX announces to New Deal Scandal that Mark Hamilton, 36, a civil servant working at a Jobcentre Plus office in Scotland stole over £24,000 from Giros he made and cashed after he stole blank giros when the Jobcentre Plus office merged with another. His seven month scamming spree was brought to a close when the [...]
["Jobcentre fraudster steals £24,373 by Giro scam"] | 3 Comments!You might be aware of A4e founder Emma Harrison’s involvement with the NSPCC. You might also be aware of the hub page regarding A4e supporting the British Heart Foundation by dumping its VSO clients there. We can report that A4e actually has done a U-turn on supporting charitable organisations such as the NSPCC, to which [...]
["A4e and NSPCC"] | No Comments: Be the first!Please see the exact 288b form used to terminate the directorship below.
["A4e Finance Director Resignation: the evidence"] | 2 Comments!Call it another scandal if you wish, it seems that New Deal providers are exempt from planning legislation. Banbury based YMCA Training, who have recently viewed this site today (leave a comment and say hello) manages to deliver New Deal training courses without first acquiring the required D1 planning consent. YMCA Training Ipswich [...]
["New Deal: New Deal providers are exempt from local planning laws"] | 1 Comment so farJust looked at the statistics on display at the Jobcentre the other day. In the last few months (last quarter) they received 247 complaints to only 5 praises. A complaint is one to the District Manager in writing not a verbal complaint, written complaint/letter to your personal adviser or unofficial complaint made online in form [...]
["98% of Jobcentre Plus formal feedback are complaints"] | 11 Comments!This is criticism against A4e and how they manage their business. This is relevant because they are the largest New Deal provider receiving money from, (guess who?) you, the taxpayer! I couldn’t resist but to disclose how strange A4e operates being such a large company and all. I don’t know of anything like it. Please [...]
["A4e, Secrets and Censorship"] | 15 Comments!New Deal Scandal is back! Against the will of Action for Employment (a4e) we are not going away. A4e may have successfully taken down watchingA4e as Webs (previously freewebs) bowed to the pressure but WordPress had the sense and courtesy to consult with me first before taking removal action. I proved to WordPress that this [...]
["New Deal Scandal: A4e 1 – Bloggers 1"] | 2 Comments!The DWP Survey 2009, states that 26% of employees taking the survey (71% of the total workforce) answered “not sure” to the following question: “Do you possess a Level 2 qualification (NVQ, BTEC, 5 GCSEs Grade A-C, or equivalent) or above?“. That is 18,982 employees not sure about their own qualifications.
["26% of DWP employees do not know if they have qualifications"] | 7 Comments!The latest statistics show that 67% of DWP employees would like to still work at DWP in 12 months time – 33% said they didn’t wish to. 48,914 would still like to work for the Department for Work and Pensions in a years time while 24,092 stated that they would not like to.
["1 in 3 DWP employees don't want to stay another year"] | No Comments: Be the first!If the answer is yes, then you should think again! Details published from DWP themselves from the DWP Survey 2009 – a survey of 73,006 people (71%) – a response of under 3 in 4 members of staff, show some worrying statistics. Is your data safe?
["Do you trust the Department for Work and Pensions with your data?"] | 3 Comments!As you can see (or not if you haven’t seen the site before) I have decided to change the theme design. I think this one looks better and allows me to stick more pages on!! There are a few imperfect elements with it but as its hosted there isn’t much I can do about it. [...]
["New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: New site design"] | No Comments: Be the first!Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” and “Ipswich Unemployed Action” blogs. This might be easier to some then using WordPress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes.
["New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet"] | No Comments: Be the first!As a Jobseekers Allowance claimant myself (when my claim hasn’t been stopped or suspended for trivial reasons such as not attending an interview they never told me about) I am not surprised that the National Audit Office (NAO) has reported a £1.2 billion under spend last year. To stick this figure into prospective (remember it [...]
["£1.2 billion DWP Fraud: DWP Underspend, Claimants struggle"] | 5 Comments!This has nothing to do with DWP, Jobcentre Plus or New Deal. I have been constantly thinking whether to post this or not, and I have decided to post it. Icelandic Bank Scandal
["Icelandic bank scandal"] | 3 Comments!We are hearing reports that YMCA Training, a New Deal provider that managed a Job Outcome rate of 16.24%, has had its contract terminated.
["16.24% New Deal Provider: YMCA Training contract terminated?"] | 1 Comment so farStatistics published on New Deal for Young People (NDYP) up to November 2008, shows a worrying trend with almost a third (31.27%) of New Deal participants not securing employment and not reclaiming benefit. Previously published articles such as Dencora House detention centre and various news articles on “jobseekers being treated like cattle” showing the poor [...]
["New Deal: A third went off benefits afterwards without finding employment"] | 5 Comments!People are increasingly loosing jobs, forced to sign on to receive Jobseekers Allowance to scrape by, hundreds of people are now applying for the same jobs and if that wasn’t bad enough, in a bid to save £234 million a year, the Government has decided to pull the £15 per week excess from Local Housing [...]
["£250 million cut to Housing Benefit: claimants plunged deeper into poverty"] | 2 Comments!So you are unemployed, about to make a claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) or have made a new claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) however not attended an New Jobseeker Interview (NJI) yet. This article explains what you need to know about claiming Jobseekers Allowance. You wouldn’t have thought that the Jobseekers Agreement (JSAg) would be [...]
["How to negotiate a Jobseekers Agreement"] | 3 Comments!New Deal wasn’t designed for those with higher skills: why not?
["New Deal: wasn't designed for the "highly skilled""] | 2 Comments!The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has been asked by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to consider proposals for the above named regulations. Currently, if the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate is higher than their contractual rent, customers are able to keep the excess benefit up to a maximum of £15 per [...]
["Housing Benefit Amendment (no 2) Regulations 2009"] | 5 Comments!If you are seeking work and claiming Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) you would have heard about the Jobseekers Act 1995 however you are probably more familiar with it being written and acknowledged as the Jobseekers Act 1995 (as amended). What does this mean? Read on for a brief explanation on the law that applies to you.
["Jobseekers Act 1995 (as amended)"] | 36 Comments!In the last financial year, 2008-09, Action for Employment (a4e), the largest welfare to work provider who has 47 active welfare to work provisions only resulted in 20% of their clients securing employment. This is quite short of the 45% target.
["a4e: 47 welfare contracts but only 1 in 5 secure employment"] | 2 Comments!What is the REAL story behind a4e? every woman article states: Emma set up her company A4e in 1991 initially to provide skills and employment training for workers made unemployed by the decline in Sheffield’s steel industry. She has since built A4e into a competitive public services company that delivers a range of services to, [...]
["a4e: the REAL a4e story?"] | 5 Comments!It has been a rumour been going around for several months now, it deserves a post! A4e founder Emma Harrison is said to have an ambition to start a bank! That’s right, she wants to start a bank aimed at poor and disadvantaged communities (or Jobseekers)!
["a4e bank: deposit your Jobseekers here!"] | 5 Comments!We recently reported that YMCA Training is disclosing past New Deal participants personal and confidential details which they should no longer hold, to a company called QDP Services, without the New Deal participants permission. I thought it would be best to follow up this by quoting Q D P Services‘ pledge regarding handling confidential information. [...]
["Update: QDP Services & YMCA Training"] | 3 Comments!205 laptops lost or stolen full of confidential information. Apparently the figures are as follows 2004 – 75 Laptops 2005 – 46 Laptops 2006 – 28 Laptops 2007 – 15 Laptops 2008 – 41 Laptops £266,000 spent on entertainment. 2003-04 £79,000 (this particular figure is apparently just a estimate) 2004-05 £28,000 2005-06 £43,000 2006-07 £106,000 [...]
["What the DWP doesn't want you to know…"] | 7 Comments!Action for Employment, the main New Deal prime contractor caught up in fraud allegations has recently requested a host to take down the Watching a4e website. We are proud to announce, that the owners of Watching a4e has kept us up to date with the new web address.
["New Deal fraud: a4e silences 'watching a4e' website"] | 2 Comments!Jobseekers Allowance: the Scandal (A MUST READ FOR ALL JOBSEEKERS) How many scandals can there possibly be?! Its becoming crazy now…
["Jobseekers Allowance Scandal"] | 33 Comments!What is with the unemployment system? “Assaults” on staff are to be dealt with by benefit sanctions and not by police. Awkward customers are to be removed from the Jobcentre Plus office by police after being held by security. Assaults are crimes, it is a police matter. Exceeding your time slot or talking back to [...]
["Jobseekers Future: inverted"] | 10 Comments!You may have heard about assaults on Jobcentre Plus staff in the news, however, these figures are largely distorted. They refer to Incident Cases and not solely due to physical assault – which we will explain later. Six months ago Jobcentre Plus boasted over 1,600 security guards costing the taxpayer over £40 million a year. [...]
["Jobcentre Plus: security and assaults"] | 18 Comments!YMCA Training has, without their New Deal participants consent, sent their contact details to some statistics company who has contacted them asking to complete an anonymous survey on the YMCA Training New Deal courses. This company, however, uses a unique tracking code to check up on who said what – not anonymous – and the [...]
["New Deal: YMCA Training discloses confidential information to tracking statistic firm"] | 16 Comments!We recently reported about Jobcentre Plus suppression regarding the misuse of security officers and police time in ejecting jobseekers from the Jobcentre Plus offices for false incriminating reasons to prevent them getting their legal entitlement. This misconduct was only the start: a blog reader added more worrying concerns who states that the Hackney Jobcentre Plus [...]
["Jobcentre Plus suppression continues: false allegations"] | 2 Comments!It is official: jobseekers have no rights. Jobcentre Plus doesn’t follow the law. There is no punishment against the Department for Work and Pensions for breaking the law or for human rights violations. Claiming benefits has become more difficult with many Benefit Delivery Centres using lie detectors which work by picking up anxiety etc. in [...]
["Jobcentre Plus suppression continues: jobseekers have zero rights"] | 9 Comments!Have you ever wondered about the people who run our country? They cost taxpayers’ £93 million a year
["House of Common Criminals"] | No Comments: Be the first!As the entire UK goes crazy with shocking new plans of changing welfare in the country, New Deal Scandal reveals that the worse is still to come! You thought the Welfare Reform Bill was bad? Read on…
["Welfare Reform Bill: There is more to come…"] | 2 Comments!New Deal Scandal recently reported that New Deal Provider Reed in Partnership was under investigation for multi-million pound fraud in 2001; we now can disclose that just two years later the Department for Work and Pensions was involved in a multi agency investigation of a fraud estimated at £3 million involving them finding jobs for [...]
["Reed in Partnership and the £3 million illegal immigrant fraud"] | 6 Comments!The illegal fraudulent act of: Offering to post letters, CV’s and application forms / previous telling the participant that they will post them and Not posting the letters as previously said and Delaying the posting of them deliberately with intent so they would exceed deadlines … is known as “stalling“.
["New Deal fraud technique: “stalling”"] | No Comments: Be the first!I can’t stress enough how great it is to have a job which is permanent and secured Tonight I wish to raise the major unemployment issue: the System’s Cherry Pick or Park approach. Regardless of being in a recession or not, there are two distinct groups of unemployed people that are jobseekers who are on [...]
["Unemployed: Temporary or Parked?"] | 2 Comments!The Government department was involved in a racial experiment with recruitment processes says the Institute of Economic Affairs, which involved sending two identical applications for 1,000 jobs – the difference being one was a typical “white British” name and the other was from a pool of names from different “ethnic minority” groups to compare the [...]
["Department for Work and Pensions: thousand bogus applications"] | No Comments: Be the first!This article focuses on Human Rights in the United Kingdom. How does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights work in the United Kingdom?
["What's the point in Human Rights?"] | No Comments: Be the first!Today we saw a referrer from Seetec’s Webmail. The Operations Manager has read the blog post on “A4e to lose Flexible New Deal contract for fraud: other training providers also under investigation“…
["Seetec's Operations Manager reads news on A4e"] | No Comments: Be the first!
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