A4E WILL GET THE CONTRACT

A requirement for people who have been out of work for two years to do up to six months of valuable work experience to help them get jobs will be trialled in two pilot areas, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Yvette Cooper said today.

The Government has already announced that every young person unemployed for a year will be guaranteed a job, training or work placement, which will be compulsory. Now, for the minority who aren't able to find a job in two years, the Work for Your Benefit pilots will give people up to six months of intensive work experience which will help improve their employability.

The pilots will apply to people on Jobseekers Allowance who will already have been offered a range of alternative intensive support at an earlier stage in their claim including training options, short term work trials, a recruitment subsidy for employers to take them on, or voluntary work in the local community. Participants will continue to receive Jobseekers Allowance.

The pilots will take place in Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk and will run for two years from October 2010.

Yvette Cooper said:

"We are investing £5bn to help people who have lost their jobs. We are determined to give the right help and support to everyone who is unemployed. We want to make sure that short-term job losses are not allowed to turn into long-term unemployment which can scar communities for generations. The longer people are left out of work, and without recent work experience, the harder it is to get a new job."

Jobseekers will be required to participate in the Work for Your Benefit programme for up to six months, whilst still able to retain their benefit. Failure to participate may result in the sanction of benefits.

The work experience and employment support will be based on the specific needs of each jobseeker. Individual work experience placements will be found through the providers running the pilots.

An alternative Jobcentre Plus regime will also be tested in pilot areas. This will offer jobseekers, at the end of the Flexible New Deal, increased adviser contact and access to a personal support fund.

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[paltalk1000]

The regime for those on JSA was outlined in the Conservative’s 2008 Work for welfare green paper, produced under Chris Grayling, now employment minister. It proposed that anyone initially refusing a suitable job would lose one month’s out-of-work benefits; a second refusal would result in a three-month penalty; and a third refusal would lead to exclusion from benefits for three years.

[paltalk1000]

In 2008, A4e overall had some 13,000 New Deal clients at its 100 or so centres throughout the country. This represented approximately 50% of the company's activities, but 40% of it was subcontracted to smaller providers. In 2008-9, A4e received £84,433,506 for New Deal provision; that is, more than £6,000 per client.

[dashwood123]

I wish they would not lie to people like this, work experience my eye. It is slavery plain and simple. If they can find work for people, they should pay the minimum wage.

It is illegal in the UK not to pay the minimum wage to employees, you should sue the goverment and the companies running these scams.

[SMoldie]

The reality of all these programmes are the companies whom win the bids for the business will do a piss poor job and in two or three years another scheme will be hatched. Oh happy days attacking the weakest poorest and least able to fight back. Its the 80s all over again.

[dashwood123]

Who is going to get the £5 billion, that's what I would like to know, its not like the unemployed are getting paid. We have had slave labour schemes like this for the last 12 years that I know of, work placements are nothing new, why all the fuss now.

[oboqoo]

refusewp dot com

[oboqoo]

@paltalk1000

Good info, keep it coming.

Mail your MP, I am

[oboqoo]

@martynblackburn1977

Yes, but you might need to go to the ECHR to get in enforced....

[computer00fulify]

Tomm 476 I hope and prey you loss your job you smug £&@"

[raceching]

A pathetic system, thought up by a pathetic bunch of losers. Some of them criminally intent on ripping the system off themselves (Mp's expenses, etc, etc.). All David Cameron and his cronies are doing is making providers filthy rich. This is costing millions in itself. Plus, to add injury to insult there are no jobs out there. And what is out there is being offered to foreign workers - simply because they will work for a lesser rate of pay! Now tell me im'e wrong!

[martynblackburn1977]

Is there a law against making people work 30 hours per week for just £65.00?

[bankporters]

its a dam discrace..i was forced on a A4E in 2007,,,, friggen con ..... offer you 3 work placements to work for your benefit ..yet on TV , they claimed unemployment figures dropped,,,, dropped?? tell the truth !!!!!! schemes are nt jobs.....