Work programme creates just 48,000 long-term jobs in three years
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Work programme creates just 48,000 long-term jobs in three years
Work programme creates just 48,000 long-term jobs in three years
Flagship jobs scheme the government insisted would help millions back into work is called into question by figures
Just 48,000 people have found long-term jobs under the government's flagship work programme during its near three-year life, official figures have revealed.
The statistic calls into question the efficacy of a system the government has insisted would help millions back into work
The 48,000 figure – revealed in data published by the Department for Work and Pensions – refers to the number of people who have found jobs through the scheme and stayed in them long enough to merit the maximum bonus paid to contractors for their remaining in employment.
But figures released by the department in November last year showed that in the year to October 2013, unemployed people were sanctioned for "misconduct" 242,973 times.
The sanctions imposed in the 12 months after the DWP overhaul of the system in October 2012 were for "failure to participate in a scheme for assisting person to obtain employment without good reason".
According to the Citizens Advice Bureau, sanctions usually involve jobseekers allowance payments being stopped for periods of between four weeks and three years. It added that, in some cases, the payments can be reduced instead.
Under the work programme, the DWP pays its contractors "job outcome payments" when claimants find work. It then pays greater bonuses – called "sustainment payments" – the longer the claimant stays in a job, up to a maximum figure.
The department's data showed that the maximum available sustainment payment has been made nearly 48,000 times since the work programme was launched in June 2011. That represents only 3.2% of the 1.5 million people the DWP said have been referred to the work programme in total.
Its report said: "A proportion of these achieved this within 104 weeks of referral and left the scheme, with the others remaining in employment after the 104-week point."
It added that, in all, 352,000 claimants have completed their 104 weeks on the programme, but remained on benefits at the end and went back to their jobcentres. The DWP pointed to figures showing that it paid nearly 252,000 job outcome payments to reward contractors who helped move claimants into jobs overall – albeit for shorter periods.
"Ministers have very serious questions to answer about this scheme, not least why there have been five times more sanctions applied than jobs found for people," said the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, Mark Serwotka.
He added: "The privatised work programme has been an unmitigated failure and has actually hampered the chances of people finding work, not helped."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/21/work-programme-creates-48000-long-term-jobs-three-years
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Flagship jobs scheme the government insisted would help millions back into work is called into question by figures
Just 48,000 people have found long-term jobs under the government's flagship work programme during its near three-year life, official figures have revealed.
The statistic calls into question the efficacy of a system the government has insisted would help millions back into work
The 48,000 figure – revealed in data published by the Department for Work and Pensions – refers to the number of people who have found jobs through the scheme and stayed in them long enough to merit the maximum bonus paid to contractors for their remaining in employment.
But figures released by the department in November last year showed that in the year to October 2013, unemployed people were sanctioned for "misconduct" 242,973 times.
The sanctions imposed in the 12 months after the DWP overhaul of the system in October 2012 were for "failure to participate in a scheme for assisting person to obtain employment without good reason".
According to the Citizens Advice Bureau, sanctions usually involve jobseekers allowance payments being stopped for periods of between four weeks and three years. It added that, in some cases, the payments can be reduced instead.
Under the work programme, the DWP pays its contractors "job outcome payments" when claimants find work. It then pays greater bonuses – called "sustainment payments" – the longer the claimant stays in a job, up to a maximum figure.
The department's data showed that the maximum available sustainment payment has been made nearly 48,000 times since the work programme was launched in June 2011. That represents only 3.2% of the 1.5 million people the DWP said have been referred to the work programme in total.
Its report said: "A proportion of these achieved this within 104 weeks of referral and left the scheme, with the others remaining in employment after the 104-week point."
It added that, in all, 352,000 claimants have completed their 104 weeks on the programme, but remained on benefits at the end and went back to their jobcentres. The DWP pointed to figures showing that it paid nearly 252,000 job outcome payments to reward contractors who helped move claimants into jobs overall – albeit for shorter periods.
"Ministers have very serious questions to answer about this scheme, not least why there have been five times more sanctions applied than jobs found for people," said the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, Mark Serwotka.
He added: "The privatised work programme has been an unmitigated failure and has actually hampered the chances of people finding work, not helped."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/21/work-programme-creates-48000-long-term-jobs-three-years
Useless, completely useless. Kinda the un-Midas Touch.
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