90% of Providers Fail Unemployed
The
future of the government’s Work Programme “hangs in the balance” as
research has revealed that 90 per cent of contracted Work Programme providers will miss their
targets to get people back into work.
“The
future of this vital employment scheme hangs in the balance,” said Ian
Mulheirn, Director of the SMF. “The programme aims to get some of the
hardest to reach people off benefits and into work, but past performance
shows that providers will be unable to meet the criteria required of
them by the DWP. As reported in Management Today
The statistic raises a number of questions:
- Were the targets too high?
- Were the providers promising too much when they applied for the contract?
- Were the providers competent?
- Is the economic downturn so deep that the job situation makes delivery impossible?
- Are employers just not employing
I’ve no doubt that the answers, arguments and “justification” will depend upon being in Government, Providers.
Perhaps they’ll all blame the unemployed!