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Loading ...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 illegal immigrants including failed asylum seekers.
DESPITE THESE TWO PREVIOUS MULTI-MILLION POUND FRAUDS:
Reed in Partnership still holds Government Contracts (including New Deal Prime Contractor, Employment Zone, Pathways to Work Phase 2). Where is the logic in that?
A spokeswoman said the agency had been “actively investigated” before the raid was carried out.
She said: “The searches are in relation to a £3m alleged fraud involving the employment of foreign nationals and failed asylum seekers.”
Documents were seized during the raid and officers were due to go through them in the next few days.
Reed in Partnership has a government contract to find jobs for the long term unemployed, including asylum seekers.
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Please please will someone contact me. I have worked in health related employment for 13 years on local authority contracts, New Deal and now Pathways. I have conributed to books on the subject and have been published. I have tried to highlight a serious issue with Pathways which appears to be ignored. Atoz and the maipulation of ESA figures for political gain. People being told they are fit for work then being refused Job Seekers as they are told they are unfit for work. Genuinely ill people are being left with nothing and are not being told of their options by the DWP. Frankly ATOZ aren’t doing what they should do but I have loads more tales if anyone wants to listen
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in reply to ben,health is a subject that has not been covered on new deal,mostly because people with health problems do little new deal as such.its acknowledged there is a wide difference of opinion,the problems arise as you say when one person says one thing and the person in next department says another.this highlights a now non outlined approach to health problems in the dwp amongst their employees’ since disability benefit was dropped.not that most were in a position to determine weather or not any way as to a persons position.
they have contributed to this problem over the years by referring people often long term hard to shift “customers”on to disability benefit without real reason with an eye to the employment figures’. now that has changed.this can leave the “customer” in circles, the yes or no doesn’t exist as such now. someone on say jobseekers being classed as unfit through one adviser’s eyes while another adviser would say different when on employment support allowance saying they are fit to return to work,through all the changes over the years this has now tied them in a knot.it would appear the figures are all that matters in some peoples eyes .the only difference is the type of program that someone is placed on.
the dwp have contracted this “assessment for work” to a company called Atos Healthcare from whats been seen this appears a lightweight assessment of questions being asked and results forwarded to a “decision maker”.this is the interesting part.
how can the decision maker know if a person is fit or not,it must be asked is this a medically qualified person who has not even examined the customer,meanwhile the “customers” gp appears to be bypassed in all of this.without going on the best advice would be to appeal against all of this,obtain a letter form your gp you will have to pay for this stating you are in their eyes unfit for work for the tribunal,the dwp will probably want to see this before in case “the decision was wrong” send them a copy of the letter only and wait.
never never take any decision by the dwp as absolute always appeal.
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i am in trouble with Reeds . i dont know what i have done wrong i started work on the 17/6/10 has a skilled gardner operatvie i was willing to try to see if i could work for just £5.80ph since i started work Reeds dont want to know me i have only recived 3 weeks travel and no money for finding my own job £50.00?
i tryed to make a complaint to my local office London E15 and have been treated with contemt
can somone help me before i go to prison thanks
please try to find me i have all the information and Experiance about REEDS E15
M Sinclair
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