18
May
2012
New Appointment to WCA group
Simon Gillespie, chief executive of the MS Society, has been appointed to the independent scrutiny group overseeing improvements to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). He will provide a voice for the charity sector on the scrutiny group overseeing Professor Malcolm Harrington’s third independent review of the WCA. (more…)
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18
May
2012
Child benefit proposals are “political disaster”
18
May
2012
Billions lost due to complex benefit system
18
May
2012
Three arrested over apprenticeship fraud
The Serious Fraud Office has announced that early on Wednesday morning that three men have been arrested on suspected fraud at the training provider Luis Michael Training (LMT). LMT which was formally based in Newport but has now closed was involved in the enrolment, assessment and (more…)
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A report commissioned by the Government into the provision of apprenticeships for people with a learning difficulty and/or disability (LDD) has found that the number of young people with a LDD successfully completing an apprenticeship has increased. The research undertaken by Peter Little OBE found that while (more…)
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17
May
2012
Warning over short term apprenticeships
A report published by the Commons Public Accounts Committee has warned that apprenticeships that last less then 6 months provide “no real benefit” to learners or employers. The Committee also said that England lagged behind other countries in terms of the size of its programme and proportion (more…)
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