Reaction from KPMG in response to the Work Programme report
A report published today, by the parliamentary Work & Pensions Committee, gives a more balanced assessment, according to Alan Downey, KPMG’s Head of Public Sector.
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UK unemployment rises to 2.52m
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A work-oriented education system could turn youth back to work
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Youth unemployment is simply not acceptable
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This week the Government introduces a new written English test for 11-year -olds. If they get it wrong, employers, voters, and a generation of young people will…
Jaguar F-type provides £1.5 billion contracts for UK companies
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Reaction from KPMG in response to the Work Programme report
A report published today, by the parliamentary Work & Pensions Committee, gives a more balanced assessment, according to Alan Downey, KPMG’s Head of Public Sector.
Social Economy jobs are 'precarious and low paid'
Government contracts must support third sector organisations in the provision of more acceptable employment conditions, says a new Third Sector Research Centre paper.
Why can't UK government make up its mind about apprenticeships?
Jane Scott Paul, Chief Executive of the UK’s leading qualification and membership body for accounting staff AAT, has criticized the government’s confused and constant changing of apprenticeships.
UK unemployment rises to 2.52m
UK unemployment has risen to 2.52 million people, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
Are we giving employers enough credit?
The change in the SASE requirement is a clumsy and crude attempt to align requirements for vocational and academic pathways,…
Testing times: Fail the English test, fail a generation
This week the Government introduces a new written English test for 11-year -olds. If they get it wrong, employers, voters,…
A work-oriented education system could turn youth back to work
“This government and its predecessor have failed to develop sustainable solutions to the problems that cause youth…
Youth unemployment is simply not acceptable
Youth Employment UK responds to Mark Hoban, Minister of State for Work and Pensions on long term youth unemployment.
'New DfE English test is both stupid and cynical.' Agree? Disagree?
This week the Government introduces a new written English test for 11-year -olds. If they get it wrong, employers, voters,…
Jaguar F-type provides £1.5 billion contracts for UK companies
Jaguar’s all new sportscar, the F-type, designed, engineered and manufactured in the West Midlands has resulted in…
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A report published today, by the parliamentary Work & Pensions Committee, gives a more balanced assessment, according to Alan Downey, KPMG’s Head of Public Sector.
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The Work Programme has the potential to work well for relatively mainstream jobseekers but is unlikely to reach the most disadvantaged long-term unemployed people, argues the Work and Pensions Committee in a report published today.
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