More than two thirds of people on the government’s controversial Work Programme are still without a job after two years on the scheme, according to new figures.
More than two thirds of people on the government’s controversial Work Programme are still without a job after two years on the scheme, according to new figures.
This means that as many as 477,480 people have returned to Jobcentre Plus after two years on the programme, despite the fact the programme has cost taxpayers £5 billion.
The Work Programme is a welfare-to-work scheme which pays public and private providers to get people who have been in long-term unemployment into work.
But the scheme has come under a lot of criticism. In March a leaked report revealed that half of the providers had described the scheme as ineffective. A quarter of providers called it “very ineffective”, whereas 22 per cent called it “somewhat ineffective”.
The Work Programme is yet another controversial scheme, which has met with very limited success from the Department for Work and Pensions. In April it launched its “Help to Work” programme, even though its own test pilot showed it to have basically no positive effect. Only 19 per cent of people on the scheme ended up in employment – compared to 18 per cent in the control group.
Stephen Timms MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Employment, said: “These figures show the Work Programme is failing.
“More people have returned to the job centre than have got a job.
“A Labour government will introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee to ensure nobody stays on benefits for more than two years.”
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22 Responses to “Another Department for Work and Pensions failure?”
Leon Wolfeson
And why are you any better? Oh right, you’re not. You’re worse.
Well done.
Leon Wolfeson
No evidence? Oh right, some people are still poor. And you haven’t got to make profit off their deaths. Yes, be very unhappy!
Leon Wolfeson
Yes, there’s your attempt to create a scam. Well done.
Thanks for admitting you should be in jail, as you blame others for your attempts, and you keep calling for genocide of the poor.
Leon Wolfeson
…Labour have given them the justification for time-limiting JSA now.
Leon Wolfeson
And when that’s axed, and people are left with nothing? Yea. Not to mention it’ll be a major wage deflator, since it’ll just attract minimum-wage jobs where previously they’d have had to have paid more.