tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post4997617334186797585..comments2024-02-29T10:55:43.449-08:00Comments on Watching A4e: "For Hardworking People"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-51403468337353453442013-10-02T03:50:29.703-07:002013-10-02T03:50:29.703-07:00I would appreciate clarification.
1) Does the &qu...I would appreciate clarification.<br /><br />1) Does the "help-to-work scheme the next "step" after being on the work programme for two years?<br /><br />2) The "help-to-work"scheme offers three options including attending job centres daily. <br /><br />Yet yesterday the Conservatives seemed to issue a new directive , that every (long term?) will be required to attend job centres daily.Simonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-60114572044471472802013-10-02T01:50:01.694-07:002013-10-02T01:50:01.694-07:00And of course if you are stuck in a room for 8 hrs...And of course if you are stuck in a room for 8 hrs playing cards or whatever you will not actually 'be out' looking for work, networking - which is what i was mandated to do by my JCP advisor- "you're not going to find work sitting around here all day " she said. Why can't they leave the unemployed alone to find work then assist with what people actually need when they ask for help!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-16582640757487493402013-10-01T08:45:45.231-07:002013-10-01T08:45:45.231-07:00I don't think you can care for anyone without ...I don't think you can care for anyone without the appropriate bits of paper saying you have done whatever little course. You will of course be using a microwave and heating up ready meals, you're not allowed to do anything else even as a carer. And certainly you shouldn't be allowed in their houses - elderly people with memory problems temporarily misplacing their money will blame the unemployed person. This is what they do, my elderly neighbour was constantly misplacing things and accusing her daughter of stealing them. And then being the unemployed layabout you'll get into all kinds of trouble.Pollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-80586962582848909052013-10-01T06:10:35.892-07:002013-10-01T06:10:35.892-07:0035 hours attendance at a Mandatory Activity Centre...35 hours attendance at a Mandatory Activity Centre for some. PS Can I have a job deciding these stupid names..?Wobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-2154728457588457752013-10-01T06:08:03.826-07:002013-10-01T06:08:03.826-07:00IDS has just annouced at the Tory Party conference...IDS has just annouced at the Tory Party conference that the unemployed will be forced to attend full-time classes at job centres to 'simulate the working day'.<br /><br />Here is the link,<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24346929<br /><br />So the unemployed are now going to be locked away in a room for 8hrs a day staring at the walls.<br />Why don't they just throw away the key while their at it? The criminalistion of the unemployed continues...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-25212572862246648892013-10-01T05:53:25.006-07:002013-10-01T05:53:25.006-07:00Now the most incompetent of the lot Smith wants th...Now the most incompetent of the lot Smith wants this:<br /><br /><br />Thousands of unemployed benefit claimants will be forced to turn up at job centres for 35 hours a week to prove they are looking for work.<br /><br />Iain Duncan Smith wants to make sure people claiming jobless benefits are not ‘cheating the system; by secretly working cash-in-hand.<br /><br />The Work and Pensions Secretary will warn that people who fail to turn up to special classrooms in job centres without good reason will lose their benefits.<br /><br />More here:<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2439942/Unemployed-forced-turn-jobcentres-35-hours-week-stop-cheating-secretly-working.html<br /><br />Not only does this suppose that all those claiming JSA are working on the sly, it is yet a further admission that Smiths 'brain'child the WP is a failure. <br /><br />This proposal sounds like the old New / Flex New Deal. You know, the schemes the Tories attacked and replaced with their 'superior' WP? If as one suspects jobseekers are sat in a room for 35 hrs. a week, just what will they be doing? Things that they presumably should've done on the WP? Or more likely bugger all! <br /><br />What gets me is that Chris Greyling as the Employment Secretary, when attacking Labour's New Deal said "We will not have people stuck in a room doing nothing for 30 hrs a week". Oh no? So what is this then?<br /><br />And of course this begs the obvious questions:<br /><br />Just who will be administering these extra sessions? JCP or dodgy private providers?<br /><br />Where exactly in Jobcentres will these classes be held? Most are unable to provide extra computers, let alone chairs, desks etc. <br /><br />Just how much extra is this all going to cost the taxpayer? I suspect that any savings made by stopping someone working on the side, cash in hand will be more than swallowed up in order of magnitude by the sheer cost of yet another pointless government initiative such as this.<br /><br />These are yet more policies drawn up on the back of an envelope in a desperate attempt to cover up the failings of the previous set of disasters. The sooner this government is consigned to the trash an of history, the better.<br />iMattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-35208970900365918802013-10-01T00:24:29.491-07:002013-10-01T00:24:29.491-07:00Just grabbed this off the BBC website -
'Muse...Just grabbed this off the BBC website -<br /><br />'Museums ditch staff for volunteers'.<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24332116<br /><br />This is Tory Britain. Paid staff being sacked and then replaced by 'volunteers' and when they sign on they are harassed by the govt and FORCED to take unpaid work - probably in the same place they were sacked from! No! No! No!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-59050715858262713582013-09-30T14:55:03.695-07:002013-09-30T14:55:03.695-07:00This happens all the time on these stupid WP cours...This happens all the time on these stupid WP courses, people trying to better themselves by going into proper training quals, like colleges ABEs and NVQs, are denied the time and opportunity to do so. The whole programme is a shamble mess- just like tory policy on welfare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-73208981316957653112013-09-30T11:59:03.209-07:002013-09-30T11:59:03.209-07:00I'm single, have no hope of ever earning enoug...I'm single, have no hope of ever earning enough to buy my own home, currently unemployed and told that I have a progressive illness, which will make me disabled. Perhaps the Conservative Party should just put me down like a sick dog. What use I'm in their BIG plans and ideas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-25302370444111528492013-09-30T11:52:55.659-07:002013-09-30T11:52:55.659-07:00They are working on the premise if you are sent 30...They are working on the premise if you are sent 300 times..you are bound to get one.. but in reality you will annoy the agency and then you wont get a chance.. not to mention the hundreds more people sent to the agencyThe Anonymousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05910309623471217302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-81638152476084833572013-09-30T11:27:44.432-07:002013-09-30T11:27:44.432-07:00Been sent on a 'pre-employment training course...Been sent on a 'pre-employment training course' by A4e. Just had the first day today, and it was torture. One of the women in the class had been forced to quit a college course to attend. The trainer was nice enough, but I suspect that's because he's not actually from A4e.<br /><br />I really hate this stupid idea. My mum's almost 60 and has a severe heart condition and they're still expecting her to work as soon as she's recovered from her injuries. Now I'm worried they're going to have her doing workfare and it'd probably kill her.Rookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01691110348958661585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-73741377683026482812013-09-30T11:14:47.039-07:002013-09-30T11:14:47.039-07:00I think the same can said for the idea of showing ...I think the same can said for the idea of showing up at the JCP daily,unless their are some worthwhile courses it would seem to be a punishment,they mention work placements,the WP was not successful at this even after 2 years,I cannot see the JCP coping with this and handling the huge influx of WP graduates within the next few months,the training seems to be the same basic run of the mill junk that happened before,during and now apparently after the WP as the saying goes you get what you pay for, yet again they are trying to do this in a rushed manner in order to appear to be tackling unemployment,when in my opinion they are making it worse,yet again.ou812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-54057827258957806452013-09-30T10:20:49.161-07:002013-09-30T10:20:49.161-07:00This is very encouraging http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/u...This is very encouraging http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24330111Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-32980124711636348122013-09-30T10:17:48.597-07:002013-09-30T10:17:48.597-07:00So that's permanent, potentially if the econom...So that's permanent, potentially if the economy doesn't improve and suitable jobs don't appear.<br /><br />The unemployed can now be handed an indeterminate sentence of forced community service, without any income other than the paltry benefits that are not enough to live on.<br /><br />Just wait for the huge increase in petty (or not so petty) crimes once this comes in as half-starved people try to find the merest bit of money or morsel of food...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613799067278928359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-59960376444351114622013-09-30T09:35:46.038-07:002013-09-30T09:35:46.038-07:00I am getting really fed up with my current A4E adv...I am getting really fed up with my current A4E advisor, i was sent to a local agency for a job around 4 weeks ago which i didn't succeed in getting but now my advisor says i have to goto the agency every day to show how keen i am for the job even though i get rejected on a near daily basis. Surely they can't send me for the same job repeatedly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-44781676114317999822013-09-30T08:29:25.277-07:002013-09-30T08:29:25.277-07:00Indefinite Workfare.. indefinite force volunteerin...Indefinite Workfare.. indefinite force volunteering, Indefinite A4e/serco/ingeus etc.. how much money will be thrown at them, of course no one on this scheme will be classed as unemployed but "training" The Anonymousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05910309623471217302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-37053914856089736682013-09-30T04:29:12.444-07:002013-09-30T04:29:12.444-07:00Ok,basic maths..200,000 post WP claimants are expe...Ok,basic maths..200,000 post WP claimants are expected to participate in this new programme at a cost of £300 Million,which equates to £1500 per year,travel will eat up about £1000 (£20 pw 50 weeks) leaving £500 for? Staff,Training,facilities? )on top of this at least 500,000 will leave the WP over the next year(based on current figures) no mention of training,qualifications or any viable skills as a result of this investment,which to my understanding is what the WP was suppose to of provided in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-53123048814807493432013-09-30T04:14:55.886-07:002013-09-30T04:14:55.886-07:00It's striking that Osborne has taken this one ...It's striking that Osborne has taken this one for himself, but IDS has some stuff left to announce tomorrow.Badgernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-33440647442837257832013-09-30T03:58:45.135-07:002013-09-30T03:58:45.135-07:00IPPR think-tank just now...
'If it is pitched ...IPPR think-tank just now...<br />'If it is pitched as a punishment where people do menial tasks, it risks acting as a signal to employers that these are people not to employ. The government’s mandatory work activity pilot, which mirrors today’s announcement, was found to have no impact on future employment.'<br /><br />Why doesn't the govt listen to this people? Ignorant.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-49215236370899661852013-09-30T03:57:19.603-07:002013-09-30T03:57:19.603-07:00Well I got on the radio, a BBC R5L phone-in on thi...Well I got on the radio, a BBC R5L phone-in on this very subject.<br /> <br />My point was that this was a tacit admission of the WP's failure as those on the WP for 2 years should have been given the "intensive help" Osborne said this new scheme would be offering.<br /> <br />A couple of Tory MP's defended the new scheme, including one, a member of the Public Accounts Ctte I had an argument with. I put it to him the WP was a failure as it got 3.5% of clients into sustained work in the first year and by the 2nd year, just 18 out of 40 contractors hit their minimum targets, as highlighted on this blog.<br /><br />I also mentioned the fact that I, people I know and thousands of others had been not seen for weeks and even months at a time and had been left to their own devices despite being promised support and despite £5bn being spent. <br /><br />The Tory's response? "The WP is struggling at the moment....achieving differing results in different areas...bleh, bleh, bleh! I did notice he did not refute my figures though!<br /><br />When I finally branded the WP a complete failure, all he could say is "No it's not". Amazing how some politicians live in a world of denial. Quite pathetic really!<br />iMattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-56412827546134039592013-09-30T03:55:59.922-07:002013-09-30T03:55:59.922-07:00More likely a devastating indictment of political ...More likely a devastating indictment of political thinktanks like Policy Exchange an its bogus survey methods.historianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922746528891041071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-7510553581381239272013-09-30T03:53:41.232-07:002013-09-30T03:53:41.232-07:00The Policy Exchange just now...
'By a margin o...The Policy Exchange just now...<br />'By a margin of over three to one, the public would rather reform labour market policy to introduce a workfare scheme than one that guaranteed long-term benefit claimants a job at the National Minimum Wage.'<br /><br />So, 75% of British people would rather see the long-term unemployed working for £70 a week rather than for the NMW?<br /><br />A devastating indictment of the rationale of the British people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-64962695597962185172013-09-30T03:52:32.525-07:002013-09-30T03:52:32.525-07:00Providing meals for the elderly and the associated...Providing meals for the elderly and the associated costs of food, or actually cooking them? <br /><br />What too if an elderly person for various reasons including safety, refuses this seemingly kind service, will they lose their State Pension? Or is that too fetched an idea, even for this callous and inept government?Simonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-51328430779158474932013-09-30T02:43:32.129-07:002013-09-30T02:43:32.129-07:00Osbourne just now...
'The scheme will last unt...Osbourne just now...<br />'The scheme will last until the person has found a job.'<br /><br />So what we have then is a group of right-wing minded people scapegoating a minority of people for the economic woes of the country, criminalising them via the media and then forcing them to do unpaid work for an indefinite period at as yet undefined locations. <br /><br />What period of history does that remind you of?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941116624675227992.post-75293519356597914952013-09-30T02:14:51.181-07:002013-09-30T02:14:51.181-07:00Perhaps there is some truth in Ancona’s gossipy ne...Perhaps there is some truth in Ancona’s gossipy new book? In it, he has claimed that Gideon despises IDS. IDS is due to be the keynote speaker tomoz, so why has Gideon stolen his wind & p*ss?<br /><br />Clearly, Gideon is only interested wooing potential Tory voters. (It seems to me that there is very little point in this year’s Tory conference, given that the Tories have already told the media all the details of their vote-grabbing hopes as far as I can see, all of which seem feeble to me. However, their media pre-briefing “strategy” will turn their conference into a flaccid flop, won’t it?) <br /><br />Gideon has no interest in the unemployed. I suspect that the Treasury are fully aware that Gideon despises IDS and so the Treasury have decided to nick one of the Tories’ most popular policies. It is much too popular to risk leaving IDS to continue to bodge & bungle the whole thing and Mark Hoban was parachuted into the DWP by Gideon & the Treasury, according to the Press.. <br /><br />The Tories are busily & brutally bashing ALL of the most vulnerable people in the UK. Their crude savagery is not confined to the unemployed. Hospital patients, frail elderly people and the low-paid have all copped it just as much as the unemployed have. <br /><br />I quite like the idea of making meals for the elderly. It is probable that the elderly would be grateful for my efforts, even though I have never had a cookery lesson, I do not possess a Food Hygiene Certificate and Elf & Safe Tea would both have a fit if I started trying to make meals for strangers. I am definitely completely illiterate about the science of food but I would like to study that subject and Gideon is even promising to give me some guinea pigs, it seems….If I were elderly, I would regard Gideon’s promise to me for what it is – a sinister threat to the elderly.<br /><br />Judinoreply@blogger.com