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 farYMCA Training had been using 517 London Road since April 2003. Ipswich Unemployed Action has reported that over 6 years later they have submitted a retrospective planning application to gain D1 consent. This came long after a year when they had enforcement action taken against them for not having D1 consent for Dencora House. They [...]
["517 London Road planning permission finally applied for"] | 1 Comment so farIpswich 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!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!Flexible New Deal: Mandatory Work Related Activity So… under Flexible New Deal there is a minimum requirement of 4 weeks of continuous fulltime “work related activity” compared to under New Deal an optional at Provider discretion 10 weeks of work experience on average (10 weeks takes account of one day a weeks jobsearch which hasn’t [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Mandatory Work Related Activity"] | 11 Comments!Flexible New Deal Scandal has received details of a tip off that someone with serious mental health issues is being made to attend Flexible New Deal at YMCA Training’s Dencora House this week.
["Flexible New Deal: TNG & YMCA Training approve someone with serious mental health issues to Dencora House"] | 8 Comments!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 [...]
["Flexible New Deal: Who can award sanction doubts?"] | 14 Comments!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 farUnemployment action group, Ipswich Unemployed Action, has recently done the unthinkable. Ipswich Unemployed Action have managed to advise and support YMCA Training into delivering their financial annual accounts with Companies House.
["Ipswich Unemployed Action helps YMCA Training file their accounts"] | No Comments: Be the first!Ever 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!The illegal act of: Acknowledging that regardless of the actual period of time the New Deal participant spends on the course they will get the full amount for the entire 13 weeks, unless they exceed their absence limit where they wont Short listing those who appear not to be able to make the entire 13 [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “exiting”"] | 9 Comments!The illegal act of: Bidding for a contract to a high specification in order to win the contract (this becomes part of the New Deal contract outlined in Part 3 (“The services”), Section 3 (“Provider obligations”) subsections 3.1.1 and 3.1.5, Schedule 2 (and applicable Annexes) and other applicable sections), Or Failing to follow Provider Guidance [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “misrepresentation”"] | 1 Comment so farThe illegal act of: Filling in a document with pencil Getting the client to sign (either in pencil or pen) Later go over the pencil lines in pen to make a few modifications or rewriting the entire agreement Erase the pencil lines (if client signs with pencil go over it with a pen first) Or [...]
["New Deal fraud technique: “penciling”"] | 2 Comments!Many 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!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!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!All New Deal training providers, past and present should be subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. The fraud investigation can’t be conducted by the Department for Work and Pensions as they also fall under the suspicion of fraudulent activity and other acts of unlawful misconduct and requires an outside independent investigation.
["New Deal should be subjected to a Serious Fraud Office inquiry"] | 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 farYMCA 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!It has came to our attention that the Department for Work and Pensions’ Executive Agency Jobcentre Plus is trying to push as many people in to the New Deal courses before it ends and become replaced with Flexible New Deal. This is NOT legit and you CAN get out of it. Read on.
["Refuse New Deal VSO Programme Provision: NDYP ND25 IAP"] | 8 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!So… the Government sticks the unemployed who are out of work more than 6 months on to an intensive course called New Deal which is contracted out to organisations such as faith organisation YMCA Training who are supposedly meant to stick New Deal participants in work placements to gain experience and help them find employment. [...]
["YMCA Training bans Jobseekers right of Freedom of Conscience"] | 1 Comment so farYMCA Training who has dismissed a New Deal participant in just little over 30 minutes of the New Deal course Induction Week due to conflict of personal opinion (breach of the “Freedom of Expression”/”Freedom of Speech” and “Freedom of Thought”/”Freedom of Conscience” Human Rights) has justified their reason as such views were a “Health and [...]
["YMCA Training files Human Rights violation dismissal under Health & Safety"] | 1 Comment so farIt has been discovered that Dencora House in Ipswich, a training centre run and rented by YMCA Training didn’t have planning permission for over 6 months. To run a training centre you require D1 planning consent. Dencora House and it’s 10 units all had B1 Offices planning consent. When YMCA Training, one of the largest [...]
["YMCA Training traded without planning permission over 6 months"] | 2 Comments!
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