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Jackie Long
The Work Programme figures are not a disaster, says the employment minister. But not one of the 18 providers met the government’s end of first year minimum target on sustainable work.
Jackie Long
The company and Work and Pensions insisted the figures we broadcast were misleading and incomplete and we should wait for their official numbers. Well the wait is nearly over.
“All your numbers are wrong,” former A4e boss Emma Harrison told Channel 4 News after leaked figures showed the company found work for four in 100 people. But official figures contradict her claims.
Chris Grayling says a “rehabilitation revolution” driven by payment by results will cut re-offending. FactCheck digs in.
After a Channel 4 News investigation revealed that A4E has failed to meet its Work Programme targets, the head of one charity involved in the programme claims it may now be unsustainable.
Exclusive: In her first TV interview since stepping down from A4e Emma Harrison tells Channel 4 News that she was “bullied out of a job”.
Jackie Long
Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long investigates what the numbers supplied by the government say about the success of its Work Programme.
Even if the government did absolutely nothing to help them, a certain percentage of people would find work off their own bat. The Work Programme can only be said to be “working” – or having any effect at all – if providers are doing better than this “non-intervention” rate.
Jackie Long
The latest figures obtained by Channel 4 News on A4e’s record in getting people jobs for the government’s Work Programme raise many questions.
The public spending watchdog criticises a government department for its handling of private companies whose fraudulent practices cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds, writes Jackie Long.
Exclusive: Former A4e boss Emma Harrison was one of those who took advantage of a lag between the announcement and the start of the 50p top tax rate, Channel 4 News learns.
Faisal’s done the maths: George Osborne can’t justify his claim that the 50p tax rate isn’t generating money.
With the government’s welfare-to-work programme in the spotlight, Channel 4 News looks at the schemes on offer for the unemployed.
The chairman of one of Britain’s leading welfare-to-work companies resigns – the day after quitting her post as the government’s “family champion”.
Half a million people ‘on the sick’ are really fit to work, the Government estimates. But how realistic are the claims behind the benefits shake-up?