Charities leaving Work Programme claim payments too low

Some charities say they are pulling out of the government’s Work Programme for the long-term jobless, claiming the payments received are inadequate ...

... Asked whether the government should be doing more to ensure that prime providers do not pass on all the financial risk to smaller charities in their supply chain, employment minister Chris Grayling told the BBC:

“It is certainly the case that some organisations have done deals which are not working for them but I can’t be the person who does the deals for them.

“We have created an environment where we have given - particularly the voluntary sector sub-contractors - all the cards in their hand, but if they haven’t used those cards, that is not something the government can do for them.”

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