90% of Providers Fail Unemployed
I was interested to read that 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 in their application for the contract?
- Were the providers competent?
- Is the economic downturn so deep that it makes delivery impossible?
- Are employers just not employing?
No doubt the answers, arguments and “justification” will depend upon being in Government, Providers or DWP.
Perhaps they’ll all blame the unemployed!
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