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The Work Programme
Hailed as the best hope for charities to expand their share of government contracts, the Work Programme has attracted a poor press, including reports by the National Audit Office and the NCVO: read the evolving story and catch up on interviews and analysis.
Analysis & Opinion
Analysis: the reality of The Work Programme
Kaye Wiggins spends a day with one charity delivering the government's welfare-to-work scheme and hears how it is coping with its contract and the jobseekers who come its way
Analysis: Charities frustrated as volunteers are put on work schemes
Should jobseekers who volunteer for charities be told to work elsewhere for free? Kaye Wiggins reports
Editorial: Work Programme woes
The sector's involvement in the government programme is starting to look like a car crash, writes Stephen Cook
Analysis: The Work Programme - are charities proper partners or just bid candy?
The voluntary sector has done less well than it hoped out of the government's scheme for getting people off welfare into work. Chris Grayling, the minister for employment, tells Kaye Wiggins why he believes the Work Programme is a valuable opportunit...
The Work Programme: View from the grass roots
Charities give their feedback on the terms and conditions of the government's scheme aimed at getting the long-term unemployed back into work
The Agenda: Government progress on its three key election pledges
From making it easier to run a charity to getting more resources into the sector, Kaye Wiggins looks at what the government has done so far and gathers together sector reaction
Analysis: Subcontracts are the best hope for charities
Is the sector really benefiting from the Work Programme? John Plummer looks at what's in it for voluntary organisations
Latest news
- Work Programme 'not helping the most disadvantaged unemployed people'
- Specialist subcontractors involved in Work Programme 'need more protection'
- DWP ordered to name charities and companies providing 'workfare' placements
- Boycott Workfare targets charities that support government's mandatory work scheme
- Public Accounts Committee calls on the government to tackle 'creaming and parking'
- 'Parking' of hardest Work Programme cases with charities is endemic, says study
- Contracts for government projects should be more transparent, committee is told
- Charities delivering services for the Work Programme are 'poorly supported'
- Navca calls for review of the Work Programme to stop large contractors 'abusing local charities'
- Acevo assembles review group to look at poor Work Programme statistics
- Number of Work Programme charity subcontractors increases slightly, figures show
- Work Programme prime contractors 'should give more financial help to charity subcontractors'
- Most charity subcontractors say Work Programme contracts are 'at risk of failure'
- Navca demands improvements in Work Programme after MPs voice fraud fears
- Government urged to change course on back-to-work programmes
- Work Programme prime providers pass the Merlin Standard
- Pressure group urges charities to stop using 'workfare' placements
- Work Programme subcontractor to cease trading due to lack of working capital
- Community Jobs Scotland 'outperforms the Work Programme'
- Fifteen sector organisations left Work Programme in second half of last year
- Action for Blind People spent £73,000 of staff time on Work Programme
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