tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post1402327879697574330..comments2024-02-29T10:55:43.449-08:00Comments on Watching A4e: Keep Calm and Carry OnUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-76991981632747315062012-05-15T12:52:33.584-07:002012-05-15T12:52:33.584-07:00im disgusted that emma harrison is still listed a...im disgusted that emma harrison is still listed as a trustee at eden! just how have eden profited from this connection? my mate lost his job in the 'reorganisation'. interestingly there volunteer dept. has been virtually wiped out! they where taking people from dwp?! whole thing stinksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-86319224270546796272012-03-10T03:20:06.342-08:002012-03-10T03:20:06.342-08:00Following on from the story about A4e being awarde...Following on from the story about A4e being awarded a contract to advise Cabinet Office on establishing contracts using social impact bonds, I’ve heard that in one of the authorities involved (Hammersmith and Fulham), A4e are lining themselves up to deliver one of these contracts! The scheme would target offenders with drug addictions. <br />This seems to be a significant conflict of interest: advising on contracts, before delivering them – and using public money to do so in both cases. <br />Not sure whether this has made the press?<br />(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/further-no-10-link-to-a4e-7534757.html)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-82346535459470194212012-03-04T11:24:06.642-08:002012-03-04T11:24:06.642-08:00Do we actually know the current state of play with...Do we actually know the current state of play with A4E? I mean, Margaret Hodge demanded all new contracts be 'blocked' until investigations with A4E are concluded and Cameron appears to have ordered some sort of vague internal review - but I can find nothing definitve to say that new contract offers have been withheld or withdrawn or anything (I'm thinking the new one for prison education in London and the probation one in the North East) No-one wants to say anything although the contract holders should have been named by now AND no-one from A4E answers any queries - everything referred to press department where "commercial-in-confidence" seems the response.<br /><br />Also, why is the company making such a big deal over separating itself from Emma Harrison when no serious charges have been levelled against her (greedy, vain, celebrity-loving, hype-spreading and poor dress sense are not offences!) but against the company conduct making the possibility of fraud almost inevitable? Is there something we still don't know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-11875521461137328972012-03-04T04:37:11.818-08:002012-03-04T04:37:11.818-08:00Will A4E survive for long enough to enable it to p...Will A4E survive for long enough to enable it to pay Emma any more dividends?<br /><br />From what I've been reading in the Press recently, it sounds like the DWP's bosses in Whitehall have had the knives out for Emma and her company for some time. The DWP's Mandarins have been shouted down repeatedly, for several years, by eager politicians who have not had a clue but who love all the Power & Patronage etc. <br /><br />The "whole of Government Review" that Cameron says he has ordered might just be a truck-load of whitewash or Whitehall might seize their own chance to get revenge on Emma Harrison and A4E, I suspect.Judinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-29589210807886294182012-03-04T03:35:22.088-08:002012-03-04T03:35:22.088-08:00Will Emma still get her dividends from a4e? In wh...Will Emma still get her dividends from a4e? In which case she probably wouldn't sell her shares .....Simonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-11148317106999510772012-03-04T02:18:43.917-08:002012-03-04T02:18:43.917-08:00"A4e is being asked to advise how to stop wel..."A4e is being asked to advise how to stop welfare firms taking money for poor performance. Yet A4e has often been found to be a poor performer itself." Quite.<br /><br />"A spokesman for A4e said: "A4e has performed consistently at or above industry average across all major employability programmes."" Unfortunately, though, "industry average" seems to be significantly lower than was promised.Judinoreply@blogger.com