The Future (Please Read)
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The Work Programme is approaching (still some time to go mind you) and will replace New Deal and Flexible New Deal. This is a post to specify what changes I propose throughout the “network”.
Flexible New Deal / New Deal related sites
All these will be retired. Whether or not they will disappear off the internet or kept read-only for archive purposes hasn’t been decided yet. I would probably keep some sites and get rid of others.
Work for Your Benefit / Workfare related sites
These will continue or should I say be developed!
Will remain “as is”, Completely separate to the network. I will remain contributing on there.
Work Programme / Work Clubs
A site for each will be developed.
Jobseekers Advice blog etc.
Will be retired and the data destroyed.
New Direction
Instead of solely opposing uk workfare and reporting on the Work Programme; there will be two NEW main directions moving forward (think of it like a Y shape junction):-
* Support for the Jobseeker; and
* Highlighting DWP/JCP/Welfare concerns in more depth and information
“Support for the Jobseeker”
50 localised job websites:- everyone in the UK should have a local or regional site they can visit to help them with jobs. Nothing major but will contain a comprehensive list of all the relevant websites known, names and addresses of agencies etc. and list jobs including those not advertised elsewhere. [Very gradual – should all be launched by end of 2011]
CV Tips, Interview Tips and Application Form Tips:- 3 websites offering tips on those 3 very important areas.
CV Templates and Letter Templates:- 2 websites offering downloads to various different styles of CV and letters (covering, spec, interview confirmation, job acceptance etc.) that can easily be customised.
Job Log creator:- A website to easily create a job log, you can download and print to submit to JCP. The download function allows you to store a copy of what you have done every week. It saves you writing it out and will be able to suggest job titles and pick employer so speeds up that typing or copy and pasting. (for example: type “Sal” and options like “Salesman, Sales Advisor, Sales Assistant” will popup; and similar for employer… for example : type “WH S” then WH Smith shows, and you can select the correct address)
“Highlighting [..] concerns [..] and information”
Jobcentre Complaints:- website dedicated to this. (i.e. they were crap etc. or praise in different section)
Jobcentre Review:- Discuss your local jobcentre.(not a complaint but describe your experience with others who don’t sign on or to compare areas – i.e. how often you have to wait ages to sign on, customer service levels etc.) I welcome suggestions on indicators to a rating scale to determine the best and worst Jobcentres.
Jobcentre Suicides:- Irresponsible DWP… I would appreciate anyone who can help me document each and every suicide (or attempted) in the last 15 years that has been directly linked to service delivery (or lack of) in regards to benefits. Will require main press sources to cite too.
I am very passionate about this site because this problem will only get worse under workfare and the benefit cuts for the disabled and jobseekers. We all can remember examples in the news of this, but a website where they are all put into one place would help the cause. If together we can prevent another life lost it will be well worth it. Hope we are all in agreement.
Benefit Fraud Info:- A website dedicated to benefit fraud. No, not how to commit it but how to make sure you aren’t accused of it. Benefit fraud isn’t about working without declaring it or having income on the side. Although that also is. Not telling DWP about a change of circumstances makes you a benefit fraudster – this is even though the change might not affect your benefit at all. They just add up how much benefit you received since the change happened and accuse you of stealing it from the taxpayer. If people can be educated about this then perhaps they will stop trying to screw everyone over. Maybe, just maybe.
Jobseeker Directions and Jobseeker’s Agreement:- Two microsites on each. People have read the guide on negotiating a JSAg but many people (without having to research a law) are unsure about JSD – like just because its a written instruction from an authorised person doesn’t mean its valid – has to take consideration of your circumstances, be reasonable, help your chances of finding or securing work and give you enough time to receive it. Also, if there is no closing date to a job, you can get out of a sanction by applying for it after they accuse you of not doing so.
Benefit Sanctions:- another site on that it seems! 
DWP Terminology:- Already published but stick it on its own website.
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Hi flexible yes I like the dwp incompetence one but I do think that this site and all it’s original postings should still reside on the internet. It is for irony and for future people. Just to look back and see what they blindly let happen and now look at the state were in.
Been a pleasure knowingyou
Cheers mate. I am not going anywhere, however, as Flexible New Deal and New Deal cease to exist it would be pointless continuing with the sites yet I agree that the content which I and hundreds of contributors of comments etc. have spent thousands of hours on collectively should be made still available.
Two main websites on Work for Your Benefit (scheme) and the Work Programme will be launched closer to when they will begin. This will take forward posting (but unlike with Flexible New Deal scandal (this site) which included New Deal Scandal posts to avoid having two websites side-by-side as New Deal was to be kept on in Phase 2 areas, no previous posts will be included) including other unemployed related news.
Name and Shame is a good idea.
Also I think you might of forgot a good feature. Name and shame
Please lend your support to the Black Triangle Campaign group based in Edinburgh.
Brothers and Sisters Unite and Fight Until they Restore Our Human Rights!
No to the POGROM ON THE POOR AND DISABLED!
In loving memory of Paul Reekie of Edinburgh who took his own life in June as a direct result of persecution at the hands of the DWP and their henchmen ATOS Origin Healthcare Ltd.
He did not die in vain.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Triangle-Anti-Defamation-Campaign-In-Defence-of-Disabled-Claimants/117145668332176?v=box_3&ref=ts#!/home.php?sk=lf
To paraphrase Oscar Romero:
“then may his blood be the seed of liberty and a sign that hope will soon become a reality.”
I had a problem with the link given above (404 Not Found error), the following link works (to homepage):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Triangle-Anti-Defamation-Campaign-In-Defence-of-Disabled-Claimants/117145668332176?
I heard about this case earlier. But what hope is there really? It’s going to take major civil unrest to undo the knots tied by this government and the last. We’re in a stranglehold and while I fully support this campaign, I don’t see what can really be done. The government won’t give a damn about some facebook campaign and media propaganda has done such a job on the general public that any protest will be seen as the stirrings of the ‘do gooders’ they have been programmed to hate.
I would dearly love to be persuaded otherwise. I have a medical at the end of the month and I’m dreading it.
localised job websites are fine in example,however that’s if the jobs are available in the first place,there are many areas that on first glance appear what some would consider a prosperous area, however these can mask true figures, deprivation,poor housing,life standards as a whole somewhat less then what many would consider reasonable.while local authorities are keen to promote transport/build landmarks and plant flower beds’ they are not so eager to highlight the problems associated with the above much less tackle them.
tbh, its more of the case of branching out to provide regional support including for Work Programme and the Work for Your Benefit scheme.
I hope this doesnt mean your lying down and giving up the good fight. Look at the figures. We have a right to protest lets think of ways we can protest within their rigid framework
The link below is to a series of audio recordings made by a jobseeker during a Jobcentre meeting with a New Deal Advisor. He refused to go on the New Deal. Please listen to them!
http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?cat=6103
Jobcentreplus New Deal Interview Part I,Part II,Part III
New site: DWP Terminology http://www.dwpterminology.info
Replaces the DWP Terminology pages. Now all common DWP Terminology is listed on one page (instead of 4), there are links to each letter section with a link back up to the top and thsi all makes it easier to find,