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G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme

By John Pring on 16th February 2017 Category: Employment

G4S, Maximus and ‘A4E’ all set to win contracts under Work and Health Programme
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Some of the country’s most controversial and discredited outsourcing companies are set to win contracts under the government’s new programme to find jobs for disabled people and other marginalised groups. The 11 organisations that have been successful in the bidding process […]

Work Programme provider A4E ‘put lives at risk’ with cost-cutting move

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, Employment, Human Rights, News Archive

Work Programme provider A4E ‘put lives at risk’ with cost-cutting move
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One of the companies at the heart of the government’s welfare-to-work programme is facing allegations that it introduced an “incredibly dangerous” cost-cutting move that could put the lives of many disabled benefit claimants at risk. Earlier this year A4E allegedly introduced […]

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