One swallow DOES make a summer: shock

Spotted by Bob E at a Work Programme provider website:

A support package from a Work Programme provider has helped a vehicle distributor find three suitable candidates who have been offered a job, the Derbyshire Times has reported. The company’s managing director, Nick Holland, said ‘it’s been a remarkably smooth employment process’, adding that working with the provider proved to be very effective and made things easy. The support included CV-sifting, hosting recruitment days and on-going support for new staff.

Some members of a group of 20 long-term unemployed residents from Stoke-on-Trent, who received their NCFE employability skills qualifications after training with another Work Programme provider, have also found work, The Sentinel has reported.

After spending umpteen billions on The Work Programme, twenty-three people have found work, eh? And how many people would these employers have taken on anyway? Twenty-three, perchance? Perhaps they would have used a private, for-profit, non-subsidised, taxpaying recruitment agency, and possibly sorted out the work-related training themselves. And I hardly think that getting an NCFE employability skills qualification is of much relevance to anything.