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DWP WORK PROGRAMME STATISTICAL RELEASE
In case anyone missed Newsnight last night, it’s now official. According to the moronic Tory MP on the programme, whose name escapes me, the blame for the fact of Tesco et al withdrawing from the work programme can be laid squarely at the door of the SWP.
It was Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire and a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
I have to say that the quality of journalism on Newsnight does seem to have become exceptionally poor. Paxman did his usual opening schtick of trying to repeat a question that he knew she wouldn’t answer, then a grilling for 3 people who had been unemployed and on work schemes, but not necessarily the scheme in question.
Which allowed Ms Baldwin to simply repeat the line that they were different schemes and thus not relevant.
NVCO has published a response to these statistics, which includes the following from Sir Stuart Etherington, CEO:
”...the number of referrals to the customer groups more traditionally associated with voluntary sector provision appear low, reinforcing fears of our special interest group that some customers are being deprived of the correct level of support needed to make them job-ready.
It is disappointing that the referrals data does not drill down further than prime contractor level. We have heard worrying evidence of voluntary sector subcontractors receiving very low levels of referrals, so more thorough data could have really helped to pinpoint whether the sector’s degree of involvement in the Work Programme tallies with previous assurances made by Government.”
NCVO response to the release of official Work Programme figures
So there you have it. Critics of the programme are job snob luddites who are simply part of an intellectual elite. So that’s all right then. I’ve never been called a luddite before let alone an intellectual.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/21/back-work-scheme-disarray-tesco
I think we should all pracise our ‘intellectual sneers’.
In case anyone missed Newsnight last night, it’s now official. According to the moronic Tory MP on the programme, whose name escapes me, the blame for the fact of Tesco et al withdrawing from the work programme can be laid squarely at the door of the SWP.
And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for those pesky Socialists! I had no idea the SWP had that much influence.
I know!! They’ll be bringing down the government next.