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  • Backing Young Britain — Careers Fair feedback
    The Government launched a several event initiative to get Young People back into employment – although the career fair (not a job fair) was advertised on the radio as an event for those who have never worked before. Flexible New Deal Scandal has collate some feedback from the Ipswich event. The event If you are unemployed, under [...] […]
  • TBG Learning to run workfare pilots?
    Well, we haven’t run on the Work for Your Benefits (workfare) yet. Apparently one of the businesses shortlisted to run the scheme is TBG Learning. Has anyone heard of them? What does TBG stand for? We are also aware of the following businesses and organisations who are either interested in the Workfare Punishment Scheme (formally “Work for [...] […]
  • John Leech MP opposes Work for your Benefit scheme
    Lib Dem MP John Leech opposes the Work for your Benefit scheme stating: I am opposed to the ‘Work for your Benefit’ element as it is wrong to make people work for less than minimum wage. Moreover, it is unfair to punish people who have been unable to get a job by treating them as if they [...] […]
  • Flexible New Deal: Who can award sanction doubts?
    So, Flexible New Deal providers can give you a fixed sanction… actually they can give variable sanctions too. There is some confusion as to the extent of their powers. Flexible New Deal scandal is going to explain the legalities around this and the people who are able to direct people and who can raise sanction [...] […]
  • If you liked school, you’ll love work.
    Originally posted by Flexible New Deal scandal blog contributor Spanner… If you liked school, you’ll love work. The cruel, absurd abuses of power, the self-satisfied authority that the teachers and principals lorded over you, the intimidation and ridicule of your classmates don’t end at graduation. Those things are all present in the adult world, only more [ […]
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    Unlike Benefit Busters, we didn’t decide to roll with this programme… there was no real point to be made from it. We weren’t going to help with their promotions prior to the broadcast of the “Famous, Rich and Jobless” programme. I will leave it up to the blog viewers and contributors to give their opinions and [...] […]
  • Jobcentre Plus Job Search: 3 weeks left
    Only 3 weeks left until Jobcentre Plus job search is completely replaced with the direct.gov job search system. This site is closing on 31 March 2010. All jobs found on this site are available on the DirectGov website. Find a job now using the jobs and skills search Please save ‘jobs and skills’ as one of your [...] […]
  • Pertemps People Development Group: top 20 company to work for
    Pertemps People Development Group has reached number 19 in the The Sunday Timeslist of the “100 Best Companies to Work For 2010″. Ben Birchall, HR director, Pertemps People Development Group, says: “It was undoubtedly a tough year for everyone at PPDG and all Welfare-to-Work providers that had to weather the storm of staff turnover and the [...] […]
  • Manchester Jobseekers: 40 hours week workfare for 6 months
    It will be Greater Manchester Job Seekers who will be first in line to suffer a mandatory 6 months of 40 hours per week work in return of their benefits. This Work for Your Benefits (WfYB) pilot scheme will begin when Flexible New Deal Phase 2 begins in parts of the country which isn’t already [...] […]
  • Do DWP withhold Data Protection Act requests for appeals?
    I personally think they do as I have experienced it… they sent me all information APART from information regarding sanctions etc. relevant to an appeal. It seems I am not the only one who thinks this… Dear Department for Work and Pensions, After serving the department with a subject access request they have failed to supply all the [...] […]
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New Deal Travel Claims

Participants on the original DWP New Deal are advised they could be victim of a multiple million pound scam where New Deal Providers unlawfully deducted £4 per week from their travel claims.

Welfare Reform Bill / Welfare Reform Act

New Deal Scandal and Flexible New Deal Scandal fully condemns the Welfare Reform Bill and is in solidarity with the hundreds of organisations, unions and individuals also opposing this proposed legislation.

The Jobseekers Act 1995 has already been amended over 50 times and the poor treatment and abuse of the conditions imposed on Jobseekers are unfair and the majority are unlawful.

The Flexible New Deal will be a “work for your benefit” scheme: a violation of numerous articles of European Human Rights. Even though knowing of this, James Purnell declared that the Welfare Reform Bill was compatible with these Human Rights. They are not.

Like the fraud issues and failure of the previous New Deal scheme (which the Flexible New Deal replaces) billions of taxpayers’ money will continue to be wasted in private organisations delivering these courses without much restriction on what the courses can contain.

Flexible New Deal, the renamed New Deal scheme (a failure) is supposed to allow providers to be more "flexible" although the VSO/IAP (13 week compulsory New Deal) schemes only required New Deal Prime Contractors to undertake a "minimum" of one day of supported job search a week. They weren't even obligated to offer work placements as advertised to jobseekers at Jobcentre Plus.

The Welfare Reform Bill has received Royal Assent. It is now Welfare Reform Act 2009.