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Flexible New Deal providers fail to deliver contract and pocket taxpayers’ cash Flexible New Deal providers nationwide (well, in the Phase 1 areas!) are widely reported not to have been actively processing referrals from Jobcentre Plus. Their contract is still active up until the Work Programme begins so referrals should continue. Are providers harming […]

Flexible New Deal Scandal can reveal that the Government is planning to dissolve the National Minimum Wage which becomes of a huge worry of allowing workfare to go mainstream. At current all people participating on Government schemes such as New Deal, Flexible New Deal and Work for Your Benefit scheme are exempt from the National […]

As 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 […]

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 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 […]

The Work Programme seems set to run from next year. In the meantime we are getting reports that existing ‘providers’ (as if they are like nurturing parents…) of the Flexible New Deal  seem less and less interested in their ‘customers’. Some people have not heard from their advisers for a considerable time. […]

  The cuts in Housing Benefit will hit hard. I think this is going to be a major cause of distress. Not only, as people here have remarked, is it almost impossible to rent a new place when you’re on the dole but many landlords already make life difficult for anyone on Benefits. Having to fork out that ‘extra’ money […]

Champion of the Out-Of-Work  John Bird has many friends amongst Ipswich Unemployed Action. His solution to mass worklessness: less dole, ‘voluntary work’ (David Cameron’s Big Society) and flog some his mag on street corners. Bird is rapidly getting support.  Away with the Nanny State (not that we are too clear on what Nannies are)! Bring co […]