Department for Work and Pensions New Deal Scandal

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Department for Work and Pensions

The Department for Work and Pensions is the largest government department in the United Kingdom. It was created on June 8th 2001 after a merger of the Department of Social Security and the employment division of the Department for Education and Employment. DWP’s mission statement reads “To promote opportunity and independence for all through modern, customer-focused services”.

The Department for Work and Pensions has the responsibility for the Health and Safety Executive, Directgov and the Employment Medical Advisory Service.

The Department for Work and Pensions consists of:

Jobcentre Plus (see below)

The Pension, Disability and Carers Service

The Rent Service

Age Positive

Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus is an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which acts as both a social security office and an employment agency. Jobcentre Plus or JCP for short, was formed when the Employment Service merged with the Benefits Agency.

Jobcentre Plus provides resources to enable unemployed people to find work via the Jobcentre website (including Directgov) and the Jobpoints, and also a system for employers to advertise job vacancies called Labour Market System (or LMS for short).

They also offer a service called Jobseeker Direct for the unemployed where they can find out job vacancies (for example if they don’t have internet access) and also to find out details of a certain range of jobs where Jobpoints and the internet site don’t display contact details of how to apply for them; it instead asks the Jobseeker to ring up Jobseeker Direct to find out how to apply.

This enables Jobcentre Plus to log the jobs they apply for and check up on them. They wont provide any details or assistance until you have disclosed your name, address and National Insurance number. The big problem with this technique is those using the internet and Jobpoints typically don’t bother applying for those positions.

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    Arturo Ui says:
    September 9th 2009 at 3:33 pm  

    NEW DEAL OR BUM DEAL? By Alfred Doolittle.

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    Arturo Ui says:
    September 29th 2009 at 12:05 pm  

    What could DWP stand for? Department of Work & Prisons

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