Here we go then – a letter sent by work programme provider Ingeus to someone I know who owns a (very) small business. The letter just turned up in that person’s post. Looks like Ingeus touting for action – trying to get anyone it can find to “employ” young people from the government’s rubbish Youth Contract programme. I suppose this is what companies do when a “concept” is tanking – they spam away in the hope that somebody somewhere will bite. And in the hope that the press coverge will improve, I guess.
The usual Youth Contract carrot is dangled: the letter makes clear, in nice bold numbers, that £2,275 is available to employers “for every unemployed young person they recruit who is currently on the work programme.” It appears that the company has some sort of catalogue of “enthusiastic young people” from which employers can choose. Wow. Pick your own. “It won’t cost you a penny,” the letter continues. Because, you know – why should employers pay money to recruit if they can get someone to actually pay them to do it? Why shouldn’t we keep forking out for useless work programmes? Why should young people expect real, meaningful well-paid jobs?
Somebody shut these tossers down and do something sensible. Please.
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Shut them down
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I spent 2 years on Work Programme with Ingeus, no job, no interviews and no use at all.
This ‘offer’ is also posted up in every window of the Jobcentre -Leicester
Oh dear we do have our knickers in a twist don’t we…….
How different is this to the usual direct marketing.. oh its not. God forbid a recruitment / training organisation tries to market their services to their local businesses. This blog and comments just highlight how out of touch this type of thinking and group of people are to the realities of life.
Grow up, learn about life, work and positive influences and crack on with life.
Dear Reality check
You might want to take your own medicine as your reply is as short sighted as our governments. For a start free recruitment is putting reputable recruitment agencies out of business throughout Britain, even the larger groups have suffered loses dew to this type of practice.
Secondly as im sure your a tax payer, are you aware theirs no such thing as free as all that’s happened now is that instead of the business paying the agency as they quite rightly should for such a service its now up to the taxpayer to foot the bill from their hard earned money. To further cement this embarrassing fact of short sightedness the taxpayer is also funding ingeus’s company and the likes as despite what you have been told by ministers that their only being paid 400 per claimant, all have been milking the likes of the European monetary fund, skills funding agency, etc.
Now if you had made as much effort as you did coming here to this site, you would find in point of fact, most of all the welfare money is spent on pauls (taxpayers being peters and pauls being private companies/public departments) rather than actually what claimants receive in their hands in the way of money.
I agree with you Gaia. Well said.
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Shut the he’ll down. Human rights not met