The New Deal Scandal blog unique hits yesterday were still rising (at 22%) as concerns increase over Action 4 Employment and Working Links, the entire New Deal scheme which is very vulnerable to fraud and the Flexible New Deal.
["New Deal fraud: Concerns rise as news spreads"] | 3 Comments!I have absolute no idea why the Government gets Ofsted (famous for schools) to do reports on New Deal providers. The problem is, whereas with schools, each school is individually assessed; with New Deal each contract region is assessed in just one annual report.
["New Deal Ofsted reports are meaningless"] | 1 Comment so farEvidence from 2003 has been uncovered showing information on fraud investigations of New Deal in the first 5 years of New Deal. You may have heard about cases regarding companies such as A4e, Maatwerk and Working Links being investigated for fraud, however, official Parliament documents show that up until winter 2002 there was over 278 [...]
["New Deal Fraud: Over 278 full fraud investigations"] | 3 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that there were 1,869 allegations of fraud made against New Deal providers within the first 5 years – 15% of these allegations (or roughly 1 in 6) resulted in full fraud investigations being carried out.
["1,869 fraud tip offs in the first half of New Deal"] | No Comments: Be the first!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!New Deal Scandal network can announce that Action 4 Employment has two main companies which they swapped names of. We do not suggest that this act was an act of fraudulent company trading however we felt the suspicions of which is significant to match the allegations of widespread fraud in the organisation.
["A4e fraud and the company switch"] | 1 Comment so farMany New Deal providers are using a whole range of fraudulent techniques to receive money unlawfully from the Government. The Government generally isn’t interested in knowing about these techniques, they only recognise the fraud that is forging employer signatures.
["New Deal fraud: the techniques used to rip off the taxpayer"] | 4 Comments!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!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!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!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!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!After some extensive research into UK Unemployment Benefit (Jobseekers Allowance) and New Deal related legislation, New Deal Scandal can inform you, confirmed by DWP, that the £4 weekly travel deductions are unlawful. This means New Deal participants past and present are entitled to be reimbursed.
["Been on New Deal? You are likely to be owed over £50"] | 43 Comments!New Deal Scandal can reveal that as of the end of July 2009 there are 4 ongoing fraud investigations regarding New Deal and 1 regarding Pathways to Work.
["New Deal Fraud: 4 outstanding fraud investigations"] | No Comments: Be the first!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!Due to other long term commitments New Deal Scandal support will be discontinued after 31st October 2009.
["New Deal Scandal nears End of Life"] | 7 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!We can report (thanks to UKBIX) that The Guardian has apologised on behalf of The Observer who had been misinformed by the Department for Work and Pensions for reporting recruitment company Working Links to be still under investigation for fraud. IT NO LONGER APPEARS THAT WORKING LINKS IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUD.
["Working Links: no longer under investigation"] | No Comments: Be the first!The previous New Deal Scandal record was smashed by a figure almost double the previous record since Benefit Busters was shown.
["New Deal Scandal unique visitors double after A4e featured on Benefit Busters"] | No Comments: Be the first!New Deal Scandal has launched a new website called Flexible New Deal Discussion! Up until now the deal has been I wrote the blog article and you give feedback (whether positive or negative) – since then I have expanded the site so very little by allowing you to rate the article and each individual comment. [...]
["Flexible New Deal Discussion"] | 3 Comments!I am proud to acknowledge that New Deal Scandal is #1 for Flexible New Deal on Yahoo – this is above all providers. Screenshot enclosed.
["New Deal Scandal number one on Yahoo for Flexible New Deal"] | No Comments: Be the first!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!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!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!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!Larry Lamb (famous for playing villain Archie Mitchell in EastEnders and also starring in Gavin and Stacey) is leaving EastEnders and due to star in a new BBC television documentary on unemployed designed to rival Channel 4′s attempt (Benefit Busters). The documentary is designed to follow probes into how the unemployed are treated – and [...]
["Larry Lamb from Eastenders probes A4e Gateshead"] | 1 Comment so farEver wondered what a New Deal Contract looked like? Happy New Year We have published an entire New Deal Prime Contractor contract with DWP. This is a Multi-Programme i.e. refers to each provision type the Provider has i.e. VSO, ETF, Gateway etc.
["New Deal Contract published: can you spot a breach?"] | 3 Comments!Flexible New Deal scandal is seeking persons whom have been on New Deal recently and have had £4 weekly deductions from their travel allowances – or who are on New Deal towards the end of their course and have £4 deducted each week.
["Flexible New Deal scandal seeks travel deduction victims"] | 15 Comments!A Freedom of Information request states: I can confirm that from 1st April 2006 until 4th January 2010, one Welfare to Work Provider in Merseyside has had to pay back monies to DWP as a consequence of fraud. The overpayment was £146 and was the result of fraud by an individual employee of the company. [...]
["Merseyside "Welfare to Work" provider pays back £146 overpayment: employee fraud"] | 1 Comment so farA Freedom of Information request reveals that DWP’s Risk Assurance Division (RAD) received 60 referrals of allegations of fraud or abuse of New Deal programmes by New Deal providers for the period since April 2006 until end of December 2009.
["DWP Risk Assurance Division receives 60 New Deal Fraud allegations"] | 1 Comment so farPertemps People Development Group has reached number 19 in the The Sunday Timeslist of the “100 Best Companies to Work For 2010″. Ben Birchall, HR director, Pertemps People Development Group, says: “It was undoubtedly a tough year for everyone at PPDG and all Welfare-to-Work providers that had to weather the storm of staff turnover and [...]
["Pertemps People Development Group: top 20 company to work for"] | 2 Comments!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.
["Flexible New Deal Providers set to defraud Government"] | 13 Comments!
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