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YMCA Training: Dencora House Detention Centre
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 [...]
Being at Dencora House detention center for 30 hours a week doing unsupervised job search with constant threats of instant dismissal for trivial things including going to the toilet when one is next available or getting a drink of water is not a fun task.
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The Failed New Deal scheme in figures
Labour in 1997 began its welfare reform regime including Gordon Brown’s New Deal scheme aimed at getting rid of the “life on benefits” trend.
Regardless of progress made in making benefits harder to claim resulting in 2/5 of a million less claimants, 12 years on politicians are still using this but rebranding to various phrases including “passive receivers” when most of this problem is a thing of the past.
This article also focuses on the Governments aim of eradicating Child Poverty by 2020 - a mission proposed by former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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About Ipswich Unemployed Action
Ipswich Unemployed Action is a group of unemployed people fighting for the rights of the unemployed nationally although we specifically focus on the Ipswich area.
We were formed in May 2009 after a string of Human Rights violation towards jobseekers specifically from New Deal courses provided by the local New Deal Prime Contractor YMCA Training in addition to Jobcentre Plus.
The more research undertaken on the issues it appears to be a national issue so we have also been focusing on raising awareness nationally on the failed New Deal system, the new Flexible New Deal scheme and proposed workfare scheme. We have a blog on wordpress.com
Flexible New Deal Providers refuse to deliver contract
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 the [...]
National Minimum Wage to be dissolved
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 [...]
The Work Programme Framework
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 [...]
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 Jobs
It 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 violation
A4e 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 tomorrow
DWP 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 Professionals
As 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 worked 9 [...]
Barack Obama: stupid anti-British racist
It 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 on
Nick 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 Government
Why 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 facebook
A 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 Performers
Jobcentre 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 [...]
