Flexible New Deal and Pathways to Work subcontractor Dering Employment Services calls in the administrators
Dering Employment Services has reported that it has called in the administrators. The Croydon based company, founded by Stephen Dering in 2006, specialised in delivering employability programmes for deaf, hard of hearing and deaf/blind people and positioned itself as the only deaf-owned and deaf-run company supporting people to get jobs. The company’s reputation had grown [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 4 comments so farFlexible New Deal Providers refuse to deliver contract
Flexible New Deal providers fail to deliver contract and pocket taxpayers’ cash Flexible New Deal providers nationwide (well, in the Phase 1 areas!) are widely reported not to have been actively processing referrals from Jobcentre Plus. Their contract is still active up until the Work Programme begins so referrals should continue. Are providers harming the [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 4 comments so farNational Minimum Wage to be dissolved
Flexible New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Government is planning to dissolve the National Minimum Wage which becomes of a huge worry of allowing workfare to go mainstream. At current all people participating on Government schemes such as New Deal, Flexible New Deal and Work for Your Benefit scheme are exempt from the National [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 6 comments so farThe Work Programme Framework
As taken from a DWP document:
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 12 comments so farThe Big Issue: helping the homeless or a scam?
As co-founder of the Big Issue, John Bird, has recently made a big statement about slashing benefits, and today I make a big statement about the Big Issue. This isn’t a retaliation remark at all, as a human being he can have his own opinion but after a discussion on sister site Ipswich Unemployed Action, [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 10 comments so farThe Future (Please Read)
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”.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 11 comments so farCant get a job? Immigrants rule UK Jobs
It has been revealed that in some areas of the UK, immigrants make up to almost 7 in 10 jobs. If you cannot secure a job, perhaps that is why!
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 9 comments so farWelfare to Work: Overpaid, Overcrowded and Out of touch!
Flexible New Deal providers are greatly overpaid, overcrowded and out of touch with reality. The 5 year contracts:- terminated to solely 18 months; where providers were paid top heavy service fees, resulted in rather unrequired investment almost upfront to deliver the contracts over the longer period. As the contract is now being scrapped this has [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 5 comments so farJobcentre Plus staff Vs Unemployed Professionals
As published in todays Sun newspaper… a report in comparisons between public sector organisations (such as DWP’s Jobcentre Plus) and private businesses…
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 13 comments so farBarack Obama: stupid anti-British racist
It was hailed a miracle! The USA having their first black president (although solely a puppet and only half black), light at the end of the tunnel for a very racist country to start again as a fair society and hope to end the severe rich-poor divide in the country we all know as corporate [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 5 comments so farCoalition Programme for Government
Why have they just merged a couple of party manifestos? I want more information on the specific issues, not a few bullet points! We need a protest and a new election… don’t want these *****s in charge for next 5 years!
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 34 comments so farJobcentre Plus: Nude Webcam Performers
Jobcentre Plus are advertising for nude webcam performers @ £100 per day. Male and Female candidates must have a computer and broadband connection and be available working at home. These “nationwide” adverts are targeted. I had searched all jobs in Ipswich and Colchester – when I tried Felixstowe this job was available – but wasn’t [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 18 comments so farCONservatives: Jobs and Welfare
Lets have a quick look at the published Con-servative Policy on “Jobs and Welfare”… step by step criticisms from the content on their website, and link to more criticism.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 9 comments so farJobcentre Plus ignores law: continues to unlawfully sanction
Flexible New Deal Scandal discovers that Jobcentre Plus is ignoring the law in regards to sanctions on Flexible New Deal.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 7 comments so farSocial Security: JSA Benefit Sanctions are Unlawful!
Today we announce a start of a new campaign called “Unlawful Sanctions”. This campaign has been setup with its own website to highlight and fight the Jobseekers Allowance sanction regime with the campaign stating that benefit sanctions are an unlawful attack on the poor.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 48 comments so farJobseekers’ Work Experience: a bad deal
Flexible New Deal scandal reports on how jobseekers on the Flexible New Deal are getting fucked over for doing more hours of work per week than on New Deal and getting between 10p more and £3 less than 12 years ago at the beginning of New Deal.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 10 comments so farWork for Your Benefit: Work Placement or Job?
So, does the Government have a point that Work for Your Benefit pilot is a “work placement” and not a “job”? This technicality allows participants to not be paid the National Minimum Wage and to displaced other jobs. Flexible New Deal Scandal investigates…
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 10 comments so farWorkfare: Unenforceable
Flexible New Deal scandal reveals how Work for Your Benefit scheme is unenforceable. An interesting foresight and possible defence of UK Social Security legislation.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 39 comments so farWorkfare: Why MP’s are ok with it
Why are MP’s okay with the proposed idea of workfare via the planned Work for Your Benefit pilots? You would have thought that more MP’s would have expressed concerns about the direction the country is moving to. Flexible New Deal scandal has today summarised the reasons why MP’s have generally been in favour of this [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 4 comments so farReed in Partnership: The final nail?
Reed in Partnership has recently been inspected by Ofsted under their ”Provider Led Pathways to Work” contract. Oh dear, Grade 4 (lowest) stamped everywhere. Job Outcome rates? On the compulsory “training” course only 7% found employment. Of that 7% of people, only 15% found sustainable jobs making approx a sustainable job rate of 1.127% (that is [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 5 comments so farDole queue is here to stay: MyGov will not replace signing on
Gordon Brown’s recent speech on Building Britain’s Digital Future has stirred up some confusion amongst jobseekers and news reporters. Tim Lott of The Guardian was probably the biggest news article on the speech and the future of unemployment with the headline “The dole queue is doomed” and tag-line “Gordon Brown has announced that soon jobseekers [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 19 comments so farWorkfare: Work for Your Benefit Sanctions exposed
Today, Flexible New Deal scandal will reveal the extent of sanctions that apply to those who fail to comply to the regulations. These are more increased than the extent of the sanctions available to those on Flexible New Deal Stage 4. The regulations (Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010) are to [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 9 comments so farWork for Your Benefit is Slavery
We recently reported that Work for Your Benefit providers can sell workfare participants to businesses. This post is focused more on the amounts of money the working “slaves” will receive and the providers income; another post will be for the mistreatment and other concerns. We are using the figures mentioned in Jobseekers Allowance isn’t enough!
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 14 comments so farFlexible New Deal Providers set to defraud Government
Welfare to Work providers including those delivering the Flexible New Deal are set to gain from a multi-million pound profit windfall by fraudulently taking advantage of a loophole in the system to determine Job Outcomes.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 13 comments so farWork for Your Benefit: providers to sell workfare victims to private businesses?
The Government’s Work for Your Benefit (“workfare”) scheme has been uprated from Mild Servitude to Slavery. Providers of the scheme are able to lease out their participants to private businesses in return for money.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 9 comments so farBacking Young Britain — Careers Fair feedback
The Government launched a several event initiative to get Young People back into employment – although the career fair (not a job fair) was advertised on the radio as an event for those who have never worked before. Flexible New Deal Scandal has collate some feedback from the Ipswich event.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 3 comments so farFlexible New Deal: Who can award sanction doubts?
So, Flexible New Deal providers can give you a fixed sanction… actually they can give variable sanctions too. There is some confusion as to the extent of their powers. Flexible New Deal scandal is going to explain the legalities around this and the people who are able to direct people and who can raise sanction [...]
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 14 comments so farFamous, Rich and Jobless
Unlike Benefit Busters, we didn’t decide to roll with this programme… there was no real point to be made from it. We weren’t going to help with their promotions prior to the broadcast of the “Famous, Rich and Jobless” programme.
Read this Flexible New Deal Post | | 8 comments so farManchester Jobseekers: 40 hours week workfare for 6 months
It will be Greater Manchester Job Seekers who will be first in line to suffer a mandatory 6 months of 40 hours per week work in return of their benefits. This Work for Your Benefits (WfYB) pilot scheme will begin when Flexible New Deal Phase 2 begins in parts of the country which isn’t already [...]
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