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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
A flagship government scheme to tackle Britain’s troubled families has helped just 720 people back to work.
The Whitehall spending watchdog warned the scheme, which set an overall target of getting 20,000 into jobs, was ‘under-performing’ and urged ministers to intervene more quickly when things go wrong.
The project is supposed to turn around families, by putting children back in school, cutting crime and helping thousands of parents back in work.
The Department for Communities and Local Government’s ‘troubled families’ programme has a budget of £448 million.
The Department for Work and pensions (DWP) aimed to get 22 per cent of people on the programme into work employment over three years to March 2015, with a budget of £200 million.
But the National Audit Office (NAO) said the DWP programme had achieved only resulted in 720 people finding work, just 4 per cent of its target.
None of the firms it was using to provide services had met the department's target.
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By *ilmisseCouple
over a year ago
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" A flagship government scheme to tackle Britain’s troubled families has helped just 720 people back to work.
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At least they tried, the people who came up with the scheme and implemented, worked it had good intentions im sure and are just normal people like you. not everything works and is a success |
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By *B9 Queen OP Woman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
" A flagship government scheme to tackle Britain’s troubled families has helped just 720 people back to work.
At least they tried, the people who came up with the scheme and implemented, worked it had good intentions im sure and are just normal people like you. not everything works and is a success"
Erm 4% success rate with OUR money??? That is not just 'not a success'. It is a catastrophic failure!
And, as they say 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.' |
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The thing is with these schemes is that they assume that they will work...when in essence they don't achieve. The same as the amount that has been ploughed into guns and gangs. There are schemes that do work and I have successfully achieved an objective that was set in relation to my job....I'm fighting for funding and the work I do is on the government list of things they want to see a reduction in and is what is needed.... |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
This does my head in. Surely £448 million could be invested in such a way as to create more than a few hundred jobs, rather than paying companies to find jobs that aren't there.
They chuck money away like this then cut benefits until people are actually dying of poverty.
Politicians, adding the "Not So" to Great Britain. |
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