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New Appointment to WCA group

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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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Child benefit proposals are “political disaster”

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Frank Haskew, the head of the ICAEW Tax Faculty, has warned that the Coalition Government’s child benefit proposals are highly flawed and will be a “practical disaster” when they are introduced.  Mr Haskew argues that HMRC do not have the necessary systems in place to run the (more…)

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Billions lost due to complex benefit system

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A report has found that as a result of complex benefit system £1.1 billion had been lost in fraud and £1.3 billion in claimant error.   The statistics were revealed in the latest National Statistics Report.  The report revealed that 2.0 per cent of total benefit expenditure (more…)

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Three arrested over apprenticeship fraud

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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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Government report finds increase in number of young people with learning difficulties successfully completing apprenticeship programmes

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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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Warning over short term apprenticeships

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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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