The Work Programme New Thread

Donaway

I am starting the work programme shortly and my provider is going to be INGEUS how often am i going to have to see or visit them , is it weekly or every fortnight etc , etc

simson3325

Donaway wrote: »

I am starting the work programme shortly and my provider is going to be INGEUS how often am i going to have to see or visit them , is it weekly or every fortnight etc , etc

every fortnight for half an hour.

looby75

Donaway wrote: »

I am starting the work programme shortly and my provider is going to be INGEUS how often am i going to have to see or visit them , is it weekly or every fortnight etc , etc

simson3325 wrote: »

every fortnight for half an hour.

my wp provider is Ingeus and I only see them once every 3 weeks or so and thats for "guided jobsearch" (sit and use their crappy computers for an hour)

LadyMissA

I am waiting on a reply to my letter to Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith about the unemployed and the WP and will let you all know if I get a reply

The_ICT_Engineer

LadyMissA wrote: »

I am waiting on a reply to my letter to Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith about the unemployed and the WP and will let you all know if I get a reply

I never had a reply to the letter I sent eight months ago. Chris Grayling has had payments from Ingeus over the years.

Happily with just enough work coming in to keep me out of the slave program.

LadyMissA

The_ICT_Engineer wrote: »

I never had a reply to the letter I sent eight months ago. Chris Grayling has had payments from Ingeus over the years.

Happily with just enough work coming in to keep me out of the slave program.

I have told them I expect a reply from them personally and I do not want to be fobbed off with some office lacky when they say Mr Grayling and Mr Duncan Smith are too busy as they were not too busy when some fool came up with the idea of the Work Programme. I am giving them 14 days to reply then will send it again and then after the next 14 days will send to my MP who is Labour and I said this "For me to have to contact the opposition and a Labour MP at that will mean you have failed not only me but the whole of the UK unemployed".

mattw7

So here we are, nearly 25 pages worth of comments and not one single outcome of a job or any success. If that is not a damning indictment on this scheme that this govt is forcing down the jobless' throats then I don't know what is. I really do hope it comes crumbling down as providers fail to acheive the necessary results and pull out.

Its just lie after lie with this current scheme, from the likes of IDS and Cameron who say its the biggest change to the welfare for unemployed people to the voluntary/mandatory perlaver of last week in the news and some companies pulling out.

I've yet to really hear of any genuine success from people on these schemes. Yes there was a brief report of one small business which had taken on a few youngsters but that seemed to be the exception here, if it were successful we'd be hearing about more than just a few good outcomes. So what is the real reason for this scheme then, is it as I believe just a vote winning policy for those tax payers who feel that they are propping up the unemployed? Or is it just a way of the tories deciding that the jobless need to be treated like children as they are incapable of looking for jobs themselves, they need a teacher to make sure they are doing it properly and give them detention (a sanction) if they don't!

imatt

I've yet to really hear of any genuine success from people on these schemes

The thing is mattw7, govt ministers will spin, decipher and interpret any info they wish to on the WP as with any other policy.

For example, BBC R 5L had a phone in on the WP last month. 16 or so people phoned in, emailed and texted. Out of this number, 2 felt the WP helped them.

Chris Greyman came on the program AFTERWARDS. He decided to have a debate with his Labour opposite number, Stephen Timms rather than risk being roasted by callers, i.e. the public. When it was put to him that most people who phoned in did not think the WP worked for them, Greymans response was “most people who have been helped into work by the WP do not have the time to phone in at 11.00 am”. So if you disagree with the WP, it’s because you have not been helped by it!

This is a typically muddle headed and dishonest response by Greyman. He assumes ALL those who have found employment WHILST on the WP have done so BECAUSE of the WP. This is clearly not so. Many have found employment on their own accord (using their own PC and internet connection for example) and YET the WP provider claims a job outcome success AND a payment from the taxpayer.

red_devil

LadyMissA wrote: »

I am waiting on a reply to my letter to Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith about the unemployed and the WP and will let you all know if I get a reply

if you get one it will be a load of crap and it wont answer any of your points.

LadyMissA

red_devil wrote: »

if you get one it will be a load of crap and it wont answer any of your points.

Oh but I have told them I will keep on till I get a real reply. I am not a quitter!

My main point was if they even knew what the WP was or did they not care?!

Oh yes I did say I would post their reply on the internet.