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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
- St Mungo's leaves Work Programme after failing to receive any referrals
- Charity for homeless withdraws from Work Programme
- Voluntary group turns away jobseekers sent by Work Programme providers
- Chris Grayling insists Work Programme contracts do not muzzle the charity sector
- Margaret Hodge urges DWP to suspend A4e Work Programme contracts
- Charities withdraw from the government's work experience scheme over docked benefits
- New Work Programme figures fuel our concerns, argues NCVO
- Margaret Hodge MP tells Work Programme contractor A4e it adds no value
- Work Programme performance is in line with expectations, says ERSA
- Third Sector Research Centre says evidence is lacking on welfare-to-work charities
- Nick Hurd: no help for charities that signed bad Work Programme contracts
- Work Programme targets put disproportionate pressure on subcontractors, says NAO report
- Work Programme puts subcontracted charities at financial risk, says NCVO
- Work Programme contract bans charities from 'attracting adverse publicity'
Additional Information
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- Date: Tue 29 May 2012 - Tue 29 May 2012
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- Date: Wed 30 May 2012 - Wed 30 May 2012
- Venue: St Albans Centre, Leigh Place, Baldwins Gardens, Holborn, London, EC1N 7AB.
