Watching A4e

A4e was at all the party conferences this year, as usual.  They don't record what interest they drummed up amongst the Lib Dems or Labou...

So Mark Hoban has gone.  He made absolutely no impact at the DWP, but apparently thinks he did.  He told his local paper in Hampshire, ...

The latest batch of Work Programme statistics is due for release on Thursday, 26 September.  I don't expect anything startling.  And I d...

It must be congratulations all round at the DWP.  The Work Programme results are terrible but hardly anyone has noticed, because the raw num...

Another charity has had to pull out of the Work Programme, according to an article on the Guardian website.  The Creative Society was set u...

The latest edition of Private Eye has shown once again the unhealthy relationship between A4e (and the other Work Programme primes) and the...

A4e "welcomes" the new contracts to be issued by Chris Grayling for "offender rehabilitation", or so they say on their w...

The latest Private Eye has some interesting sidelights on the Work Programme and attendant issues. The first concerns those sanctions...

Well done to the Guardian for keeping on the case of the sanctions targets and league tables, because no one else seems to be interested in ...

I've just seen this article on the Guardian website, headlined "Jobcentre was set targets for benefits sanctions".  A leaked...

That's what Mark Hoban calls criticism of the "work experience" schemes.  He's written a piece for the Telegraph explaini...

I've just watched an entertaining but infuriating interview with Mark Hoban on BBC's Newsight . It started with a clip from the cla...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Cait Reilly's contention that the government's unpaid work schemes are legally flawed.  T...

That was Mark Hoban's response to the Public Accounts Committee's roasting of the DWP for the misery caused by Atos.  The BBC report...

Ever since the publication of the dreadful performance data for the Work Programme, the media have been doing a demolition job on the whole ...

The Radio 5 Live Investigates programme has tackled the Work Programme and its predecessors several times.  Today they were looking at repor...

That's the headline to an article in the Guardian yesterday.  It will no doubt surprise most of you to know that if you're on the W...

Have you noticed that the Work Programme doesn't exist any more?  Up to last Autumn it was dropped into every pronouncement by Tory mini...

Those who don't read the Observer should read this article . Now, I start out by loathing the very notion of the "nudge unit"...

In an outsourced society, targets are, apparently, vital.  You can't measure the success or failure of a contract without them.  When co...