BROKEN BRITISH POLITICS – Number Of Jobs Gained On Work Programme Plummets: Are Benefit Sanctions To Blame No-sanctions-place The latest Work Programme statistics show a shocking fall in the number of people gaining work and suggest that being sent on the scheme is now actively harming people’s chance of getting a job . The figures show that even after spending a year on the Work Programme, only 10.7% of people had gained a job which lasted at least six months. This is a fall of almost a quarter since last year’s high in April when 14% of people on the programme for a year had found a long term job – figures which were regarded as a disaster at the time. The Work Programme has been in steady decline ever since, with the percentage of people finding work overall – including those who have completed the full two years of the scheme – at a new low of just under 19%. This is down from 22.5% just six months ago, and this figure was expected to rise as more people had been on the programme longer. Astonishingly there is no mention of this dismal performance in the gushing DWP press release which accompanied this week’s statistics. No longer are the DWP even reporting the job outcome rate, which is the only figure that matters when assessing whether the Work Programme is working. Instead the Minister for Unemployment Esther McVey claims: “Over a quarter of a million long-term unemployed people have been helped into a sustained job thanks to the Work Programme – that’s a quarter of a million people who previously might have been written off now with the security of regular wage.” No Job security and No Job satisfaction Save your BS McVey and get a proper job or join the Dole without any future . brokenbritishpolitics.simplesite
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 08:17:45 +0000
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