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| An analysis by the Guardian shows that none of the 18 contractors to the flagship Work Programme have reached their target of keeping at least 5.5% of jobless people referred to a scheme job for half a year in the year until July 2012. This is despite the government having spent £435m on the scheme so far. Providers are paid for taking on a jobless person, finding them a job and then ensuring they keep it. | An analysis by the Guardian shows that none of the 18 contractors to the flagship Work Programme have reached their target of keeping at least 5.5% of jobless people referred to a scheme job for half a year in the year until July 2012. This is despite the government having spent £435m on the scheme so far. Providers are paid for taking on a jobless person, finding them a job and then ensuring they keep it. |
| However some of the biggest companies delivering the Work Programme had failed to meet the targets. Ingeus, part of a multinational founded by the wife of Kevin Rudd, former Australian prime minister, is the biggest private contractor winning seven franchises of the work programme worth £727m over five years. | |
| In the north-east of England Ingeus was referred almost 28,000 jobless people and got 920 into sustained employment, a success rate of 3.3% until July 2012. A4e, which is the second biggest contractor to the programme with £438m of deals, found 490 jobs for more 17,650 unemployed people in the south of England around the Thames Valley - a performance rate of 2.8%. | |
| Even in booming capital providers struggled. In West London Maximus Employment, with £176m of contracts, got 760 unemployed people into sustained employment out of 18,830 referrals, a success rate of 4%. The best performer was Maximus around Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which managed to get 5.1% into jobs. The worst was JHP Group which in 13 months until July managed to get 260 unemployed people into work for more than 6 months from a group of 11,820 in Wiltshire and around Swindon. | Even in booming capital providers struggled. In West London Maximus Employment, with £176m of contracts, got 760 unemployed people into sustained employment out of 18,830 referrals, a success rate of 4%. The best performer was Maximus around Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which managed to get 5.1% into jobs. The worst was JHP Group which in 13 months until July managed to get 260 unemployed people into work for more than 6 months from a group of 11,820 in Wiltshire and around Swindon. |
| Powered by Tableau The Guardian analysis also indentified an alarming trend: that the work programme performed best in richer areas where there was lower levels of unemployment. The work programme in Middlesbrough, where 8% are unemployed, found 100 jobs for 4,500 people referred. | |
| Similarly deprived Blackpool, with 6% unemployment, only 50 jobless people were found "sustained employment" out of 3,500 referrals. Meanwhile in south Norfolk, where unemployment runs at 2%, 20 long term unemployed got jobs for more than 6 months out of 760 referrals to the work programme. | |
| Fewer than one in a hundred unemployed people on sickness payment, employment and support allowance, were found jobs by the scheme. | |
| Ministers warn they will take away contracts if providers continue to fail to meet targets. | Ministers warn they will take away contracts if providers continue to fail to meet targets. |
| The table below shows Work Programme total referrals, total job outcomes and key performance measure by contract. What can you do with this data? | |
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