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?”
LB
I picked dah cotton massa! May I get mah cornbread now massa?
LB
They are going to get poorer. At the same time the debts have gone up by 7 trillion.
So its a mess.
Welfare state is a mess. No capital, and all the debts.
Leon Wolfeson
Thanks for showing your attitude towards the poor, yes.
Leon Wolfeson
Keep demanding that your demands be the truth, as you make people poorer, yes. You can’t pay tax, after all, since you’ve got the cash!
LB
No one’s got the cash.
The state took it, and spent it.
That leaves the debts.
Which bit of that don’t you understand?
You’re constant response is to this being pointed out is to accuse whoever it is of being a criminal.
Perhaps you’re in on the fraud. Do you work for the state?