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		<title>Work Programme in Disarray: Up the Ante!</title>
		<link>http://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/work-programme-in-disarray-up-the-ante/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Coates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[employment programme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flexible New Deal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Welfare Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With &#8216;Work Experience&#8217; programmes in disarray now is the time to up the ante: Fight the plans for Workfare as a central part of the Dole! Ipswich Unemployed Action, formed in 2009,  has protested against these schemes since they first appeared. We have supported Decent benefits for all &#8211; a raise so people are not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intensiveactivity.wordpress.com&#38;blog=7717385&#38;post=2299&#38;subd=intensiveactivity&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why “Work Experience” scheme is not voluntary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Work Programme</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is much confusion as to work placements on the Work Experience scheme being voluntary or mandatory. It is mandatory, we will explain why:- It is an employment programme (treats participants as employees and the placement as a job) that carries benefit sanctions as penalty for non-compliance An employment officer at the Jobcentre has to mandate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intensiveactivity.wordpress.com&#38;blog=7717385&#38;post=2295&#38;subd=intensiveactivity&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Tesco workfare placements</title>
		<link>http://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/more-tesco-workfare-placements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Work Programme</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DWP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Minimum Wage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, not a fully exhaustive break down&#8230; we really don&#8217;t have the time for that, and most placements will be made through a poverty pimp (welfare to work provider) for the Work Programme, Mandatory Work Activity and Community Action Programme etc. There is a good reason why we are highlighting two specific vacancies&#8230; (if your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intensiveactivity.wordpress.com&#38;blog=7717385&#38;post=2286&#38;subd=intensiveactivity&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work Experience, Workfare: the Real Programme is Worse.</title>
		<link>http://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/work-experience-workfare-the-real-programme-is-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Coates</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaigns for Unemployed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobseekers allowance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Tory Coalition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Snobs&#8221; is how Chris Grayling attacked those who criticise the &#8216;Work Experience&#8217; programme for the under-25s. The Employment Minister now  says, &#8221; &#8220;The idea that people are being press-ganged for long periods of time to work for nothing to provide cheap labour for big companies is totally untrue.&#8221; It&#8217;s all a helping-hand for young people. Grayling  promises, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intensiveactivity.wordpress.com&#38;blog=7717385&#38;post=2270&#38;subd=intensiveactivity&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workfare, PCSO, DWP admin and Job Interviews</title>
		<link>http://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/workfare-pcso-dwp-admin-and-job-interviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Work Programme</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Workfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ipswich Unemployed Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have criticised Jobcentre Plus&#8217; Labour Market System, workfare job vacancies advertised on there, Jobcentre Plus using workfare and false job advertisements to distort job counts. Police uses Workfare Who else could be using workfare apart from the DWP and local councils? The police of course, an institution assumed of moral standards and ethical legitimacy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=intensiveactivity.wordpress.com&#38;blog=7717385&#38;post=2266&#38;subd=intensiveactivity&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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