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 [...]
["Flexible New Deal Providers refuse to deliver contract"] | 4 Comments!A4e have managed to lose 24,000 peoples details. This not under New Deal, Flexible New Deal or any other welfare contract that they have but the Community Legal Advice Centre contract. This shows deep concern about how they do not care about peoples personal information – so if you have A4e as a provider or another [...]
["A4e and the Data Protection Act violation"] | 2 Comments!Well, we haven’t run on the Work for Your Benefits (workfare) yet. Apparently one of the businesses shortlisted to run the scheme is TBG Learning. Has anyone heard of them? What does TBG stand for?
["TBG Learning to run workfare pilots?"] | No Comments: Be the first!Ipswich Unemployed Action recently reported that YMCA Training failed to deliver their accounts in time. Flexible New Deal Scandal can now reveal that A4e’s A4e Management Ltd business also has overdue accounts. YMCA Training: A4e Management: Ironically both sets of accounts were supposed to be delivered on the same day.
["A4e & YMCA Training: Overdue Accounts"] | 6 Comments!“Want to help people? Volunteer as a mentor to unemployed customers in Eltham and Greenwich” Want to help people? Volunteer as a mentor to unemployed customers in Eltham and Greenwich (London) A4e are urgently seeking enthusiastic highly motivated volunteers to mentor long-term unemployed people on a weekly basis in Woolwich and Croydon. Mentors provide support [...]
["Want to help A4e? Volunteer as a mentor to unemployed customers"] | 8 Comments!It was scheduled for Monday 7th December 2009 at 7.30pm; BBC Inside Out Yorkshire & Lincs was to run a story on A4e. Today I went on iPlayer and found the following description: Nicola Rees looks at what we can learn from past flu pandemics, and Johnny Nelson accompanies a young Bradford man as he [...]
["BBC Inside Out: A4e content replaced with Clouds"] | 2 Comments!So, Darren Marsh has been back to our site requesting another censorship! Is it number 4, number 5? I am loosing track on the attempts. Let’s not forget they managed to shut down the original Watching A4e website before too and I am sure many more others!
["A4e attempts another censorship… number 5.. ?"] | 7 Comments!Working Links: Another Flexible New Deal complaint Flexible New Deal Scandal is updated with another complaint about the Government’s newly “improved” version of the original New Deal scheme (as renamed Flexible New Deal). The provider is Working Links….
["Flexible New Deal: another complaint… (Working Links)"] | 8 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that the former Finance Director was demoted after A4e recruited Sarah Aston, A4e’s newly created position of Group Head of Risk, in April 2009, designed to centrally combat fraud for Flexible New Deal contracts.
["A4e Finance Director demoted after Group Head of Risk recruited"] | 3 Comments!Taken from Watching A4e’s Two Memoranda article: A4e says that it has introduced a procedure whereby 50% of all claims are routinely checked by an independent team which phones the employer to verify that the client is working there, and can check with the Jobcentre that the client is off benefit. Whats the point of getting [...]
["A4e only checks half of claims before claiming job outcomes"] | 10 Comments!You the blog reader may decide. Emma Harrison claims that A4e is a victim of fraud… really? Not exactly a new issue or article worthy of being called “news”, however, I would like to report corporate happenings behind big businesses such as A4e. New Deal Scandal already reported about an director of A4e of the [...]
["Victim of Fraud: A4e or the Taxpayer?"] | 2 Comments!I have just received an email from someone who was kind enough to attach the email conversation with A4e’s Emma Harrison. Well, until she decided not to bother replying.
["Emma harrison doesn't want to acknowledge the severe shortcomings of a4e"] | 15 Comments!Yes, not really the behaviour of a small business, but A4e Ltd (by far not a small business) has decided to spam blogs (which talk about New Deal, Welfare Reform and Flexible New Deal etc.) with their website. Very unprofessional.
["A4e spams numerous blogs"] | 2 Comments!A short post. Just promoting a link to Watching A4e with an article on Know Hope which appears to be A4e’s marketing brand for Flexible New Deal. Twittering A4e – and No (sorry, Know) Hope I can’t help thinking that the slogan Know Hope is a mistake! Probably a cheap marketing stunt to get people [...]
["Know Hope? More like No Hope! A4e Flexible New Deal"] | No Comments: Be the first!I have been trying to get Emma Harrison to take part in an interview. She has declined it (by default) by not responding back to me after being so keen initially until I explained what the interview was for. Darren Marsh of A4e marketing had previously expressed an interest in improving A4e. This was short [...]
["Emma Harrison declines interview request"] | 5 Comments!“Bizchicks Vs Eggheads“ Apparently, the bizchicks (including a good friend Rachel Elnaugh – infamous for being booted off Dragons Den when her business hit the wall) lost but the Eggheads are really clever people, to be fair. Episode 106 (“bizchicks Vs eggheads”) was shown on Monday 10 November 2008 at 6pm on BBC2 (last year) [...]
["A4e Emma on Eggheads"] | No Comments: Be the first!Ipswich Unemployed Action has reported that Local Government has given YMCA Training the go ahead to keep Dencora House detention centre open.
["Government keeps Ipswich Detention Centre open"] | 1 Comment so farNew Deal Scandal today officially opens the new Benefit Busters discussion blog aimed to focus specifically on the issues raised in all 3 episodes of the Benefit Busters series 1.
["Benefit Busters: New Deal Scandal launches a new website"] | No Comments: Be the first!New Deal Scandal can reveal that Episode 2 of Benefit Busters is now back online on the Channel 4 website.
["A4e Hull Benefit Busters Episode 2: now on 4oD"] | 3 Comments!Watch the controversial episode of Channel 4’s Benefit Busters Series 1 at A4e Hull here.
["Watch the pulled Episode 2 of Benefit Busters here!"] | 3 Comments!We had recently reported that possibly A4e had pulled Benefit Busters Epidsode 2 from the TV repeat and On Demand services. Last night there was concerns that maybe the Government was involved in pulling the show off the air and off the internet.
["Did the Government get A4e Benefit Busters Episode 2 pulled from On Demand?"] | 14 Comments!It seems that Channel 4′s Benefit Busters Episode 2 was pulled from Virgin Media On Demand service and the online 4od service. Why? Rumour has it that perhaps A4e ordered the On Demand/Catch Up availability to be removed due to concerned pressures over the services provided which could lose them their Flexible New Deal contracts [...]
["Did A4e get Benefit Busters Episode 2 pulled from On Demand?"] | 14 Comments!Sorry to all New Deal Scandal blog viewers for not commenting on the Episode 2 of Benefit Busters on the Longterm Unemployed – I have not yet seen it and is not available On Demand and via the 4od website. What are Channel 4 playing at? I will review the Channel 4 Benefit Busters Series [...]
["Channel 4 Benefit Busters Episode 2 not On Demand"] | 13 Comments!The first Channel 4 documentary programme/entertainment show Benefit Busters on single mums at A4e Doncaster made a strong start on the 20th August with a combined 2.39 million viewers (10.8%) – 2.2 million viewers (9.7%) at 9pm on Channel 4 and another 190,000 (1.1%) on Channel 4 +1. The A4e Hull featured Channel 4 documentary [...]
["1 in 10 TV viewers watched Benefit Busters"] | 1 Comment so farBenefit Busters is on again tomorrow at 9pm. The first episode of Series 1 of Benefit Busters spreaded a lot of anger of Princess Emma of Sheffield in her mansion and A4e: the largest New Deal Provider. New Deal Scandal will review the preview clips of Episode 2 of Benefit Busters – this show could [...]
["Benefit Busters: Episode 2 Preview"] | 33 Comments!Interesting links on A4e Doncaster featured Benefit Busters Series 1, Episode 1 that was shown on Channel 4 last Thursday night.
["Benefit Busters Episode 1"] | 2 Comments!So it has been a hot topic in the recent week…. Benefit Busters at A4e Doncaster. I have already expressed disappointment regarding the low outcome by A4e the largest welfare provider in the UK that also has business interests overseas. Since the Benefit Busters show, I have been reviewing feedback across the internet. The comments [...]
["A4e Benefit Busters Single Mums Review"] | 15 Comments!As we all might be aware that the Channel 4 Benefit Busters show was designed for publicity for A4e rather than a fair insight in to the benefit system. Thursday’s (20th August) show which featured the training provider Action for Employment (otherwise known as A4e) and their star tutor/trainer/sales person/staff member Hayley Taylor (which I [...]
["A4e Benefit Busters: why A4e isn't the answer for welfare"] | 13 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Department for Work and Pensions has no intention for making any prosecutions for prime contractors deliberately defrauding the system. The Department for Work and Pensions currently has no plans of stopping Flexible New Deal contracts being awarded to prime contractors who have previously defrauded the system on numerous [...]
["No prosecutions for New Deal Fraud"] | 3 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that Neil Watson resigned as a director in addition to dropping down to a less senior position while Mark Stanley took the position of Finance Director. This is a very rare occurence in business.
["Mark Stanley replaces Neil Watson as Finance Director for A4e"] | 2 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that A4e had tried to avoid paying tax.
["A4e experiments tax avoidance: pays no tax"] | No Comments: Be the first!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 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!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!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!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!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!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!We can reveal that on the 20th April 2009, Mr Neil Watson the Finance Director for Action 4 Employment resigned from a4e Ltd as a director.
["a4e New Deal: Finance Director resigned"] | 5 Comments!I would like to welcome Action 4 Employment who have recently visited this blog; it would look better if you commented on some of the A4e fraud issues mentioned on the site.
["Welcome A4e: don't be shy, leave feedback"] | No Comments: Be the first!
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