DWP: Work Programme is getting people working

[AccessOfficer]

27 November 2012 – Work Programme is getting people working
Tens of thousands of long-term unemployed are getting off benefits and into jobs through the Government's Work Programme, new figures have revealed.

The Government figures published today show that at least 56 per cent of the scheme’s earliest participants have come off benefits, with 19 per cent spending at least six consecutive months off benefits.
Ha - Ha - Ha and Ho - Ho - Ho ---Good for a laugh init!

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/newsroom/press-releases/2012/nov-2012/dwp128-12.shtml

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/work-programme-first-year.pdf

Regards
AO

[JLRRAC]

Dr Goebbels is live and kicking eh?  >erm<

[devine63]

But why did the Work Programme have targets which involve getting just over 5% of claimants into work?   What about the other 95%?  Why was the taxpayer getting such poor value for money from the original deal?   And then on top of that the companies failed to reach their target and only actually found work for just over 3% of claimants ...
regards, Deb

[JLRRAC]

Forgive me poor maths but if it has cost or they are spending 5.5 billion on 5% that makes it around 110 billion to see the other 95% helped back into work, right?

As I say forgive my lack of maths >doh<

[seegee]

Fewer than 1 in 5 spend at least 6 (consecutive) months off benefits, and that's a success? >doh<

[JLRRAC]

I managed to boil an egg once, couldn't do it again no matter how hard I tried >erm< is that a success or failure? :-)

[auntieCtheM]

Just for the record, didn't they also say that 1 in 5 people would have naturally found themselves work anyway.  No intervention required.

It is great for those people who did get a lot of support and have got proper permanent jobs.  But what about the rest of the long-term unemployed?

They do say that the next set of figures will be better (ie massaged?)

[devine63]

"Fewer than 1 in 5 spend at least 6 (consecutive) months off benefits, and that's a success?"

"Just for the record, didn't they also say that 1 in 5 people would have naturally found themselves work anyway.  No intervention required.  It is great for those people who did get a lot of support and have got proper permanent jobs.  But what about the rest of the long-term unemployed?    They do say that the next set of figures will be better (ie massaged?)"

Not 1 in 5, it's a lot worse than that!!!!   1 in 5 is 20% (20 per hundred).

The work programme actually found work lasting at least 6 months for just 3 or 4 people per hundred (the percentage is three point something).    The were only expected to find work lasting at least 6 months for 5 per 100, the other 95 per hundred were not expected to find work lasting at least 6 months (though they may have found a job lasting less than 6 months) .  So if the "natural" rate of job finding is 20%, then it would be much much better to leave people to find their own work!!!!

regards, Deb

[JLRRAC]

"They do say that the next set of figures will be better (ie massaged?)"

Aye that they will, they'll use a better quality of oil >biggrin<