The Work Programme, a scheme to reemploy the unemployed, is irrelevant for much of manufacturing and incompatible with the new found desire to help the unsung "M" in SME, says Will Stirling.
Data from the Work Programme was mauled in the press last week. Despite creating thousands of jobs that lasted six-months or longer, which is the qualifying period for training providers to get paid, most newspapers condemned the government’s initiative to get long-term unemployed back to work The first official data showed only 18,270 out of…
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