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Unofficial Jobcentre Plus & Unemployment Survey

Unofficial Jobcentre Plus & Unemployment Survey

Please spend 10 minutes or so answering the questions so we can gather a better understanding of unemployment and how the Government is handling the issue.

Instead of the usual tick box, checkbox and rating systems, we have decided to allow you to answer in your own words. There is also an opportunity to rate each area out of 10. We will allow answers by comments to the article so to show they are not distorted in any way. Questions are simplified for easy understanding without requiring the concentration of an examination!

New Deal Scandal is running this survey because no one else offers such an impartial indepth open survey not limited by closed questions or tickbox selections which can be interpreted in many different ways. Your views are really important to us and will help shape the future of welfare. There are 12 questions in total.

The questions are as follows:

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New Deal Scandal archive now available here

Today we relaunch the old (but still relevant) New Deal Scandal website. We have exported the posts and comments from http://newdealscandal.wordpress.com and imported them to http://www.newdealscandal.co.uk/flexiblenewdeal/ (this website).

This has meant we have lost individual post ratings and the ratings on pages and blog articles. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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A4e Finance Director demoted after Group Head of Risk recruited

New Deal Scandal can reveal that the former Finance Director was demoted after A4e recruited Sarah Aston, A4e’s newly created position of Group Head of Risk, in April 2009,  designed to centrally combat fraud for Flexible New Deal contracts.

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A4e only checks half of claims before claiming job outcomes

Taken from Watching A4e’s Two Memoranda article:

A4e says that it has introduced a procedure whereby 50% of all claims are routinely checked by an independent team which phones the employer to verify that the client is working there, and can check with the Jobcentre that the client is off benefit.

Whats the point of getting an independent team to check just half of the claims to see if they are genuine? Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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Victim of Fraud: A4e or the Taxpayer?

You the blog reader may decide. Emma Harrison claims that A4e is a victim of fraud… really?

Not exactly a new issue or article worthy of being called “news”, however, I would like to report corporate happenings behind big businesses such as A4e. New Deal Scandal already reported about an director of A4e of the highest senior rank in regards to finance, stepping down/being demoted after reports of fraud within A4e, which almost got this website shut down. He still works for the company in a more junior role underneath the new finance director.

Now we have a snippet from Emma Harrison stating how A4e uses a PR team and lawyers to bully their way out of any blame. Now, lets not forget even though a business has the right to protect themselves i.e. their reputation, A4e did attempt to shut down this blog and were on the route to even suing me for solely stating that Companies House had recorded that a director who works in finance has resigned his directorship – this comes after allegations of fraud were reported at A4e.

A4e being a company funded by taxpayers money means taxpayers have the right to know basic public accessible information such as management changes within contracted out services.  A4e claimed this was libel and was intended as a malice attempt to attack their (allegedly) good reputation.  The truth is, even though they have to file such documents by law they wanted this suspicious (although not necessarily guilty) activity kept quiet.  Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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New Deal Scandal number one on Yahoo for Flexible New Deal

I am proud to acknowledge that New Deal Scandal is #1 for Flexible New Deal on Yahoo – this is above all providers. Screenshot enclosed. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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Flexible New Deal? New Deal Scandal is Number 3 on Google!

I am proud to acknowledge that New Deal Scandal is #3 for Flexible New Deal on Google – this is above all providers. Screenshot enclosed. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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Flexible New Deal Discussion

New Deal Scandal has launched a new website called Flexible New Deal Discussion!

Up until now the deal has been I wrote the blog article and you give feedback (whether positive or negative) – since then I have expanded the site so very little by allowing you to rate the article and each individual comment. The maximum I can do with wordpress (thats said wordpress is my favourite blog platform).

I have decided it is a good idea to release a forum (feedback dot flexible new deal dot me dot uk) so you can now create a topic and discuss various topics including New Deal, Flexible New Deal, Welfare Reform and even Tell the world what you would do instead of flexible new deal if you was in charge!

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New Deal Scandal unique visitors double after A4e featured on Benefit Busters

The previous New Deal Scandal record was smashed by a figure almost double the previous record since Benefit Busters was shown. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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Working Links: no longer under investigation

We can report (thanks to UKBIX) that The Guardian has apologised on behalf of The Observer who had been misinformed by the Department for Work and Pensions for reporting recruitment company Working Links to be still under investigation for fraud.

IT NO LONGER APPEARS THAT WORKING LINKS IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUDRead more on New Deal Scandal »

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A4e Benefit Busters: why A4e isn't the answer for welfare

As we all might be aware that the Channel 4 Benefit Busters show was designed for publicity for A4e rather than a fair insight in to the benefit system.

Thursday’s (20th August) show which featured the training provider Action for Employment (otherwise known as A4e) and their star tutor/trainer/sales person/staff member Hayley Taylor (which I hear has since been sacked) pursuing ten single mums in to making the transition of going back to work, highlighted a major flaw.

Yes the PR backfired. Not solely due to opinion on the show which i will report later in a separate blog article but rather by their lack of success as the UK market-leader of providing Government welfare schemes. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

New Deal Scandal nears End of Life

Due to other long term commitments New Deal Scandal support will be discontinued after 31st October 2009. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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No prosecutions for New Deal Fraud

New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Department for Work and Pensions has no intention for making any prosecutions for prime contractors deliberately defrauding the system. The Department for Work and Pensions currently has no plans of stopping Flexible New Deal contracts being awarded to prime contractors who have previously defrauded the system on numerous occassions for the New Deal contracts. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

New Deal Fraud: 4 outstanding fraud investigations

New Deal Scandal can reveal that as of the end of July 2009 there are 4 ongoing fraud investigations regarding New Deal and 1 regarding Pathways to Work. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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Been on New Deal? You are likely to be owed over £50

After some extensive research into UK Unemployment Benefit (Jobseekers Allowance) and New Deal related legislation, New Deal Scandal can inform you, confirmed by DWP, that the £4 weekly travel deductions are unlawful.  This means New Deal participants past and present are entitled to be reimbursed. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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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 nothing more than internet censorship as my source for that blog post was from the Government and is available to anyone who wishes to search the company register.

This makes it 1-1 on the score between A4e and Blogger!

This meant a little bit of downtime – well no new posts anyway and one being hidden (private) – but now we are back, and now have some more content on A4e that I am sure you will find interesting. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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.  Read more on New Deal Scandal »

Reed in Partnership and the £3 million illegal immigrant fraud

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?

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New Deal fraud technique: “stalling”

The illegal fraudulent act of:

  1. Offering to post letters, CV’s and application forms / previous telling the participant that they will post them

    and

  2. Not posting the letters as previously said

    and

  3. Delaying the posting of them deliberately with intent so they would exceed deadlines

… is known as “stalling“.

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Seetec's Operations Manager reads news on A4e

Today we saw a referrer from Seetec’s Webmail. The Operations Manager has read the blog post on “A4e to lose Flexible New Deal contract for fraud: other training providers also under investigation“… Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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New Deal fraud: the techniques used to rip off the taxpayer

Many New Deal providers are using a whole range of fraudulent techniques to receive money unlawfully from the Government. The Government generally isn’t interested in knowing about these techniques, they only recognise the fraud that is forging employer signatures. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

A4e fraud and the company switch

New Deal Scandal network can announce that Action 4 Employment has two main companies which they swapped names of. We do not suggest that this act was an act of fraudulent company trading however we felt the suspicions of which is significant to match the allegations of widespread fraud in the organisation. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

a4e New Deal: Finance Director resigned

We can reveal that on the 20th April 2009, Mr Neil Watson the Finance Director for Action 4 Employment resigned from a4e Ltd as a director. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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1,869 fraud tip offs in the first half of New Deal

New Deal Scandal can reveal that there were 1,869 allegations of fraud made against New Deal providers within the first 5 years – 15% of these allegations (or roughly 1 in 6) resulted in full fraud investigations being carried out. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

New Deal Fraud: Over 278 full fraud investigations

Evidence from 2003 has been uncovered showing information on fraud investigations of New Deal in the first 5 years of New Deal. You may have heard about cases regarding companies such as A4e, Maatwerk and Working Links being investigated for fraud, however, official Parliament documents show that up until winter 2002 there was over 278 in depth fraud investigations against New Deal providers, almost 2000 allegations of fraud committed by New Deal prime contractors and the rate of cases year on year seems to be on the increase. Read on for more! Read more on New Deal Scandal »

New Deal Ofsted reports are meaningless

I have absolute no idea why the Government gets Ofsted (famous for schools) to do reports on New Deal providers.  The problem is, whereas with schools, each school is individually assessed; with New Deal each contract region is assessed in just one annual report. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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New Deal fraud: Concerns rise as news spreads

The New Deal Scandal blog unique hits yesterday were still rising (at 22%) as concerns increase over Action 4 Employment and Working Links, the entire New Deal scheme which is very vulnerable to fraud and the Flexible New Deal. Read more on New Deal Scandal »

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