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Jul6
What's the point in Human Rights?
Categories: human rights; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: ECHR, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, human rights, UDHR, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This article focuses on Human Rights in the United Kingdom.
How does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights work in the United Kingdom? View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul11
Jobcentre Plus suppression continues: jobseekers have zero rights
Categories: dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: 2 Comments
Keywords: dwp, dwp corruption, government suppression, jcp, jobcentre plus
It is official: jobseekers have no rights. Jobcentre Plus doesn’t follow the law. There is no punishment against the Department for Work and Pensions for breaking the law or for human rights violations. Claiming benefits has become more difficult with many Benefit Delivery Centres using lie detectors which work by picking up anxiety etc. in the voice, the norm once been on hold for 20+ minutes, resulting in some people being unable to claim… and to top it off now New Deal Scandal has received numerous reports of jobseekers being removed from the Jobcentre without any legal justification and incriminated. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul13
We recently reported about Jobcentre Plus suppression regarding the misuse of security officers and police time in ejecting jobseekers from the Jobcentre Plus offices for false incriminating reasons to prevent them getting their legal entitlement.
This misconduct was only the start: a blog reader added more worrying concerns who states that the Hackney Jobcentre Plus prevents Jobseekers using the Jobpoints also requesting police to remove the unemployed from the building. The misuse of public services which could be better used for fighting crime seems to be an growing common trait at the Jobcentre Plus offices around the country.
The Jobcentre now stops the unemployed jobseekers from accessing jobs: a requirement for receiving Jobseekers Allowance; an welfare benefit for those without employment to survive on.
This article focuses on more issues regarding the services provided by the largest UK Government department including making false allegations towards people, a claim I can also personally defend from my own circumstances and various sources all over the country too and also in the case we reported in the above article. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul14
Jobseekers Future: inverted
Categories: Welfare Reform, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: 3 Comments
Keywords: benefit sanctions, jobcentre plus, jobseekers, Unemployment Police
What is with the unemployment system?
“Assaults” on staff are to be dealt with by benefit sanctions and not by police.
Awkward customers are to be removed from the Jobcentre Plus office by police after being held by security.
Assaults are crimes, it is a police matter. Exceeding your time slot or talking back to staff isn’t!
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Jul21
New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Welfare Reform, Working Links, YMCA Training, dwp, human rights, new deal fraud, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: a4e, a4e fraud, Action 4 Employment, Dencora House, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp, flexible new deal, jobcentre plus, Jobseekers Act 1995, jobseekers allowance, New Deal, new deal fraud, Working Links, YMCA Training
Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” and “Ipswich Unemployed Action” blogs. This might be easier to some then using Wordpress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Jul29
New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform: network snippet
Categories: Action 4 Employment, New Deal, Welfare Reform, YMCA Training, dwp, emma harrison, human rights, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: a4e, a4e fraud, Action 4 Employment, Dencora House, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp, flexible new deal, Housing Benefit, jobcentre plus, Jobseekers Act 1995, jobseekers allowance, New Deal, new deal fraud, Working Links, YMCA Training
Just a brief overall of recent content on ”New Deal Scandal & Welfare Reform” blog. This might be easier to some then using WordPress pages as some sticky posts make normal ones difficult to see sometimes. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Aug4
New Jobcentre Plus Chief Executive is pro compulsory national volunteering
Categories: Welfare Reform, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: 9 Comments
Keywords: Darra Singh OBE, dwp, jobcentre plus, Lesley Strathie, Mel Groves, National Service
New Deal Scandal can reveal that the new Jobcentre Plus CEO, Darra Singh OBE, was one of the masterminds behind a new National Service system where in particular young unemployed people are to be forced to “volunteer” or lose their benefits. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Sep16
Dencora House detention centre to stay for Flexible New Deal?
Categories: Dencora House, Ipswich, New Deal, YMCA Training, dwp, flexible new deal, human rights, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: Dencora House, Department for Work and Pensions, dwp corruption, human rights, Ipswich Unemployed Action, jobcentre plus, New Deal, new deal scandal, uk government, unemployment, Welfare Reform, YMCA, YMCA Training
Ipswich Unemployed Action and New Deal Scandal has confirmed that Ipswich Borough Council has granted YMCA Training full planning consent for Dencora House.
Dencora House is a detention centre located on Whitehouse Industrial Estate – isolating New Deal participants from society. Even in an industrial estate, the property has a perimeter fence, the entrance is a vast distance from the main road and towards the opposite side the place is shielded from an even busier road by trees – it is good to see trees but I can’t help thinking that this place was chosen to keep the unemployed away from the town centre where most of the towns jobs actually are: funny that …and also where all the recruitment agencies are and the Jobcentre. They think the unemployed goes around creating crime such as stealing so sticking a large group of them in an industrial estate seems a way of solving that problem.
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Sep28
New Deal Scandal dominates Flexible New Deal Search
Categories: New Deal, flexible new deal, human rights, new deal fraud; Feedback: 5 Comments
Keywords: flexible new deal, google, new deal scandal
The UK’s leading independent website on welfare reform, new deal and flexible new deal has rose from #5 to #3 in Google for search term Flexible New Deal. This is above all Flexible New Deal providers. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Oct16
Dear Gordon Brown (New Deal is a Farce!)
Categories: New Deal, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: 16 Comments
Keywords: Darra Singh OBE, dwp, gordon brown, Gordon is a Moron, jobcentre plus, Lewisham Jobcentre Plus, New Deal, yvette cooper
Today I have received an email from a New Deal Scandal blog reader and ex-New Deal participant who is upset at his mistreatment of this New Deal farce:
I know its a diabolical situation & I am so glad I found your website because I was beginning to think it was just me who thought the New Deal Programme was such a farce & I was being forced to sign off just to get the unemployment figures down.
Here is a copy of the still yet unanswered letter that has been sent to the manager of the Jobcentre Plus office in Lewisham, all the major tabloids, Yvette Cooper (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Work & Prisons W*nkers and Pillocks), Darra Singh CEO of Jobcentre Plus and Gordon Brown! (Read on) View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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Oct25
Save the Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance
Categories: Benefit Busters, Welfare Reform, dwp, human rights, uk government; Feedback: Be the first to comment
Keywords: Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance
SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS
Tony GreensteinHaving already abolished Incapacity Benefit, New Labour has now made it clear that it wants to scrap ALL disability benefits. On July 14th New Labour published a Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care. Reading through the spin, the message is clear. Disability Living Allowance is ‘inefficient’ ‘poorly targeted’ [because it’s not means tested!] and therefore has to go towards paying for a new national care service.
Disability Living Allowance is the best benefit there is. If your needs are great enough, if you cannot care and need help with bodily functions for part or all of the day (and night) you are eligible for Disability Living Allowance. There are 3 bands – lower, middle and higher. Receipt of Disability Living Allowance does not overlap with other benefits and is not counted as taxable income.
The result is that people who are the most vulnerable and sick in this society see a small increase in their standard of living. This is what New Labour hate most of all. The proposal is to use the money for ‘individual budgets’ run by private companies, whereby the disabled, in agreement with the local authority, can spend the money on care. Of course they’ll never actually see the money!!
The whole system will be discretionary and, of course, liable to cuts. Anyone with any experience of the existing system of individual budgets knows what a nightmare the whole system is.
The Green Paper talks about abolishing Attendance Allowance which is paid to those 65 and over (Attendance Allowance is the equivalent of the care component of Disability Living Allowance). Instead they intend to force the elderly to pay £20,000 to insure themselves!! The Green Paper talks about replacing not just Attendance Allowance but ‘disability benefits’ – a clear sign that it is not just Attendance Allowance which is in their sights. And the Green Paper dresses up its purpose with the usual New Labour waffle such as proclaiming that “our aspiration (is) to build a stronger, fairer Britain.”
The Attlee Government of 1945-51, which was a right-wing cold war Labour government, introduced the building blocs of the welfare state which New Labour is intent on dismantling. They introduced the 1948 National Assistance Act intended to act as a safety net for those who fell below a certain level of income. View the rest on Flexible New Deal Scandal
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- The Work Programme FrameworkAs taken from a DWP document: The Work Programme Framework Introduction to the Work Programme The Coalition Agreement, published on 12 May 2010, set out a number of major welfare to work reforms, including a core integrated welfare to work programme and a number of measures designed to support people to find employment. These measures [...] […]
- The Big Issue: helping the homeless or a scam?As co-founder of the Big Issue, John Bird, has recently made a big statement about slashing benefits, and today I make a big statement about the Big Issue. This isn’t a retaliation remark at all, as a human being he can have his own opinion but after a discussion on sister site Ipswich Unemployed Action, [...] […]
- The Future (Please Read)The Work Programme is approaching (still some time to go mind you) and will replace New Deal and Flexible New Deal. This is a post to specify what changes I propose throughout the “network”. Flexible New Deal / New Deal related sites All these will be retired. Whether or not they will disappear off the [...] […]
- Cant get a job? Immigrants rule UK JobsIt has been revealed that in some areas of the UK, immigrants make up to almost 7 in 10 jobs. If you cannot secure a job, perhaps that is why! Place Percentage (of jobs by immigrants) Rough ratio Newham (“London 2012″), London 69.5 7 in 10 people Brent, London 57.7 3 in 5 people Westminster, [...] […]
- A4e and the Data Protection Act violationA4e have managed to lose 24,000 peoples details. This not under New Deal, Flexible New Deal or any other welfare contract that they have but the Community Legal Advice Centre contract. This shows deep concern about how they do not care about peoples personal information – so if you have A4e as a provider or another [...] […]
- Work for Your Benefit (WfYB) provider announced tomorrowDWP says the successful Work for Your Benefit provider will be announced on 21st June 2010 when the contract is awarded. That is tomorrow. […]
- Welfare to Work: Overpaid, Overcrowded and Out of touch!Flexible New Deal providers are greatly overpaid, overcrowded and out of touch with reality. The 5 year contracts:- terminated to solely 18 months; where providers were paid top heavy service fees, resulted in rather unrequired investment almost upfront to deliver the contracts over the longer period. As the contract is now being scrapped this has [...] […]
- Jobcentre Plus staff Vs Unemployed ProfessionalsAs published in todays Sun newspaper… a report in comparisons between public sector organisations (such as DWP’s Jobcentre Plus) and private businesses… Sector Private Public Total Employed 22,000,000 7,000,000 Pay (Average) £19,932 £22,417 (30% better off an hour) Pensions 15% of public sector workers gain in better pensions Hours worked 23% more hours work […]
- Barack Obama: stupid anti-British racistIt was hailed a miracle! The USA having their first black president (although solely a puppet and only half black), light at the end of the tunnel for a very racist country to start again as a fair society and hope to end the severe rich-poor divide in the country we all know as corporate [...] […]
- Former Labour MP Nick Palmer signs onNick Palmer, a former Labour MP for Broxstowe, who spent 13 years in Parliament and speaks 6 languages, has a PhD in maths and loves topping up his huge former MP salary and MP expenses doing surveys at approx £50 per time, is reported to be signing on for Jobseekers Allowance.Nick Palmer, 60, who also [...] […]
- Coalition Programme for GovernmentWhy have they just merged a couple of party manifestos? I want more information on the specific issues, not a few bullet points! We need a protest and a new election… don’t want these *****s in charge for next 5 years! Snippets 19. JOBS AND WELFARE The Government believes that we need to encourage responsibility [...] […]
- New Deal Complaint unofficial fansite on facebookA google search has made me aware of a facebook group…. Name: “Newdeal” should NOT be mandatory Category: Business – Employment & Work Description: I have recently been made to go on the government “Newdeal” scheme, and can only say I was disgusted by this supposed training course, everyone I spoke to had a complaint. [...] […]
- Jobcentre Plus: Nude Webcam PerformersJobcentre Plus are advertising for nude webcam performers @ £100 per day. Male and Female candidates must have a computer and broadband connection and be available working at home. These “nationwide” adverts are targeted. I had searched all jobs in Ipswich and Colchester – when I tried Felixstowe this job was available – but wasn’t [...] […]
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