Watching A4e

I thought we might get a day off, that the furore would be dying down.  But no. First, A4e put out a press release yesterday.  Two things...

The Public Accounts Committee yesterday launched a blistering attack on A4e during a session on the introduction of the Work Programme.  (Se...

I didn't have the chance to watch the Channel 4 Dispatches programme tonight, but I will when it's on 4OD. The comments on the chan...

In a piece headed "Pathway to nowhere" the latest edition of Private Eye again highlights the failure of Pathways to Work. The E...

Knowing that PR pieces are more effective than news, A4e are still plugging the failed Pathways scheme. Typical is an article on Guildford ...

I hear that one of the regional news programmes, Look North, did a pre-election debate in which Emma Harrison of A4e joined three politician...

When delivering a public service such as helping the unemployed to find work there will be some crucial differences between public servants ...

Pathways to Work is the programme aimed at getting people on incapacity benefits back to work. The results, published today, are well below...

You'll remember that the third episode of Benefit Busters focussed on the Pathways programme, getting people off incapacity and disabili...

A4e's core business has always been in contracts to deliver "welfare to work" programmes, and these have enabled the company t...