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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.

• Jobcentre fraudster steals £24,373 by Giro scam

  UKBIX announces to New Deal Scandal that Mark Hamilton, 36, a civil servant working at a Jobcentre Plus office in Scotland stole over £24,000 from Giros he made and cashed after he stole blank giros when the Jobcentre Plus office merged with another.
  His seven month scamming spree was brought to a close when the DWP [...]

• A4e and NSPCC

  You might be aware of A4e founder Emma Harrison’s involvement with the NSPCC. You might also be aware of the hub page regarding A4e supporting the British Heart Foundation by dumping its VSO clients there. We can report that A4e actually has done a U-turn on supporting charitable organisations such as the NSPCC, to which [...]

• A4e Finance Director Resignation: the evidence

  Please see the exact 288b form used to terminate the directorship below.
  A4e Finance Director Resignation
  Neil Watson
  A Neil Martin Watson has 22 appointments according to Companies House.
  

• New Deal: New Deal providers are exempt from local planning laws

  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     [...]

• 98% of Jobcentre Plus formal feedback are complaints

  Just looked at the statistics on display at the Jobcentre the other day. In the last few months (last quarter) they received 247 complaints to only 5 praises.  A complaint is one to the District Manager in writing not a verbal complaint, written complaint/letter to your personal adviser or unofficial complaint made online in form [...]

• A4e, Secrets and Censorship

  This is criticism against A4e and how they manage their business. This is relevant because they are the largest New Deal provider receiving money from, (guess who?) you, the taxpayer!
  I couldn’t resist but to disclose how strange A4e operates being such a large company and all. I don’t know of anything like it. Please feel [...]

• New Deal Scandal: A4e 1 – Bloggers 1

  New Deal Scandal is back!
  Against the will of Action for Employment (a4e) we are not going away.
  A4e may have successfully taken down watchingA4e as Webs (previously freewebs) bowed to the pressure but WordPress had the sense and courtesy to consult with me first before taking removal action. I proved to WordPress that this is [...]

• 26% of DWP employees do not know if they have qualifications

  The DWP Survey 2009, states that 26% of employees taking the survey (71% of the total workforce) answered “not sure” to the following question: “Do you possess a Level 2 qualification (NVQ, BTEC, 5 GCSEs Grade A-C, or equivalent) or above?“. That is 18,982 employees not sure about their own qualifications.
  Source: DWP Survey 2009.
  Posted in dwp, [...]

• 1 in 3 DWP employees don’t want to stay another year

  The latest statistics show that 67% of DWP employees would like to still work at DWP in 12 months time – 33% said they didn’t wish to. 48,914 would still like to work for the Department for Work and Pensions in a years time while 24,092 stated that they would not like to.
  These statistics are [...]

• Do you trust the Department for Work and Pensions with your data?

  If the answer is yes, then you should think again!
  Details published from DWP themselves from the DWP Survey 2009 – a survey of 73,006 people (71%) – a response of under 3 in 4 members of staff, show some worrying statistics. Is your data safe?
  I am aware of DWP’s data security policies and put them [...]

• New Deal Scandal Welfare Reform: New site design

  As you can see (or not if you haven’t seen the site before) I have decided to change the theme design. I think this one looks better and allows me to stick more pages on!! There are a few imperfect elements with it but as its hosted there isn’t much I can do about it. [...]

• New Deal Scandal Welfare Reform: network snippet

  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.£1.2 billion DWP Fraud: DWP Underspend, Claimants struggle
  As a Jobseekers Allowance claimant myself (when my claim hasn’t [...]

• £1.2 billion DWP Fraud: DWP Underspend, Claimants struggle

  As a Jobseekers Allowance claimant myself (when my claim hasn’t been stopped or suspended for trivial reasons such as not attending an interview they never told me about) I am not surprised that the National Audit Office (NAO) has reported a £1.2 billion under spend last year.
  To stick this figure into prospective (remember it is [...]

• Icelandic bank scandal

  This has nothing to do with DWP, Jobcentre Plus or New Deal. I have been constantly thinking whether to post this or not, and I have decided to post it.
  Icelandic Bank ScandalAm I the only one who thinks the ability for YOUR council to INVEST YOUR MONEY in a FOREIGN overseas SAVINGS bank while YOUR [...]

• 16.24% New Deal Provider: YMCA Training contract terminated?

  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.
  Ipswich Unemployed Action reports that YMCA Training has had its New Deal contract terminated.
  (1) YMCA Training and the New Deal participant data breach
  (2) Cambridge Jobseeker felt “humiliated and degraded” by YMCA Training
  (3) [...]

• New Deal: A third went off benefits afterwards without finding employment

  Statistics published on New Deal for Young People (NDYP) up to November 2008, shows a worrying trend with almost a third (31.27%) of New Deal participants not securing employment and not reclaiming benefit.
  Previously published articles such as Dencora House detention centre and various news articles on “jobseekers being treated like cattle”  showing the poor under [...]

• £250 million cut to Housing Benefit: claimants plunged deeper into poverty

  People are increasingly loosing jobs, forced to sign on to receive Jobseekers Allowance to scrape by, hundreds of people are now applying for the same jobs and if that wasn’t bad enough, in a bid to save £234 million a year, the Government has decided to pull the £15 per week excess from Local Housing [...]

• How to negotiate a Jobseekers Agreement

  So you are unemployed, about to make a claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) or have made a new claim for Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) however not attended an New Jobseeker Interview (NJI) yet. This article explains what you need to know about claiming Jobseekers Allowance.
  You wouldn’t have thought that the Jobseekers Agreement (JSAg) would be a [...]

• New Deal: wasn’t designed for the “highly skilled”

  New Deal wasn’t designed for those with higher skills: why not?
  Higher Skills, Degrees etc.
  The first ever degrees began in 859 (thats the 9th century, I haven’t forgotten a 1 in front).
  University
  The first/oldest university in the English speaking world is Oxford University. The exact founding date is unknown and disputed but sometime in the [...]

• Housing Benefit Amendment (no 2) Regulations 2009

  The Social Security Advisory Committee (SSAC) has been asked by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to consider proposals for the above named regulations.
  Currently, if the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate is higher than their contractual rent, customers are able to keep the excess benefit up to a maximum of £15 per week. [...]