Major retailers are using free labour to cover staff shortages, with no intention of offering paid employment afterwards - and the Prime Minister has no idea what is going on.
The Taxpayers Alliance has released a new report on welfare dependency, but the proposed solutions do little to save costs and only adds to hardship.
The Department of Work and Pensions today rushed through emergency legislation to ensure that job-seekers unfairly sanctioned by their policies are unable to claim compensation. This provides an opportunity to look at how utterly infective they have been at getting people into work.
The government's welfare-to-work scheme has been branded 'extremely poor' by MPs, who said the best performing provider only moved 5% of people off benefit and into work.
Poundland has lost a case in court and has been found to have breached forced labour laws
Even after the very public failings of the government's Work Programme, Boris Johnson is pushing forward with his own mandatory work experience scheme.