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.
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.
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 »
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 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 »
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. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
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 »
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 »
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?
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Former Action 4 Employment (A4e) employee Elizabeth Orsman has been jailed for fraud with a total value of £15,833. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
Both Action 4 Employment and Working Links publicly release a statement on the Channel 4 News report broadcast on the 30th June 2009, dated 28/06/2009 (A4e) and 29/06/2009 (Working Links) up to 2 days before the public were aware of their fraudulent activities. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
Action for Employment founder and chairperson Emma Harrison discussion regarding scams: with video! Read more on New Deal Scandal »
The illegal act of:
… is known as “leeching“. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
The illegal act of:
and
… is known as “misrepresentation“. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
The illegal act of:
… is known as “exiting“. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
This potentially fraudulent act involves:
The fraudulent element is as follows…
Or, This fraudulent act involves:
… is known as “Pre-signing“; the second definition is more likely to use that term in common dialogue. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
The illegal act of:
Or
… is known as “Penciling“.
If your New Deal provider ever wrote reviews and such like in pencil I would recommend you use the Data Protection Act 1998 to retrieve all the documents they hold on you (failing that if they say they no longer have it, try the Jobcentre) and see whether the content changed
The illegal forging act of:
… is known as “Windowing“. Read more on New Deal Scandal »
Since Monday, in half the country there will be no new referrals to New Deal. This could be due to implementing the Flexible New Deal or due to revelations of New Deal fraud we recently reported, as the Flexible New Deal (if contracts are signed on time) are not due to begin until October allowing a 13 week programme to commence this week.
At only 19:55 BST the record number of unique visitors on this blog today has beaten the previous record a week ago (22nd June 2009) by 2 times and has tripled the daily average number of unique visitors. It seems everyone is very interested in the A4E fraud so we will bring more revelations on Action 4 Employment in the future.
Several years ago Reed in Partnership were investigated over 13 employees who has forged placements for those who had signed off to gain bonuses and also used the Employment Services data of New Deal candidates that found work outside of Reed to top up missed targets, totalling an expected multi-million pound fraud.
This was back in 2001, what have the Department for Work and Pensions learned since then?
It appears that the Government is still very slow in picking up on fraud – with the departments executive agency Jobcentre Plus ignoring complaints from Jobseekers and New Deal participants, and generally having a very laid back attitude, turning a blind eye approach to working in partnership with these external providers it can’t be surprising the failings of these fraud investigation teams they have.
For one, Ipswich Unemployed Action have reported that YMCA Training, a New Deal training provider, didn’t have planning consent for providing their services – the New Deal contract team that are supposed to monitor service delivery of contracts are, yes you guessed it, a Jobcentre Plus department and NOT Department for Work and Pensions who award the contracts. Before signing the contract training providers have to submit plans and details of the proposed premises for approval – it appears they couldn’t be bothered to do a 5 minute online planning permission check on the property (or alternatively ring Ipswich Borough Council direct).
Even though Jobcentre Plus is an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions (sorry for any confusion above) and that the DWP is reportedly corrupt, it seems like one team inside the DWP are checking via audits etc. the forms and such like for suspicious signatures and information for alleged fraud, while all along Jobcentre Plus staff such as New Deal Personal Advisers are even aware and support the acts of fraud happening in the system.
Reed article source: http://www.recruiter.co.uk/