Launched in 2008 the scheme was supposed to help 20,000 people get jobs or qualifications.
But BBC Wales revealed in February that only around half that number took part and fewer than 800 found work.
But don't worry folks, it wasn't directly handed over by the UK taxpayer funds that were spent, it came from the EU !
The European-funded programme was designed to help people who were having the most difficulty getting into work, including single parents.
Documents obtained by BBC Wales in February showed the number of people who took part was well short of the original target:
By June 2012 there had been 10,500 participants.
Of these, only 789 were working at least 16 hours a week.
Creating those jobs cost an average of £44,735 each - the target when the programme began in 2008 was around £13,000-per job.
Ministers started considering ending the scheme this year, instead of 2014 as originally planned, after a review found the programme was not performing.
and, of course, now the decision has been taken ...
Mr Cuthbert added: "Lessons will be learnt from this and will inform the way we deliver future adult employment and skills programmes in Wales.
"Similarly, we will ensure that we integrate the best practice from Genesis in the development of future programmes."
and the biggest "plus" of all - they didn't manage to spend all the money before calling a halt ...
At the outset £67m was set aside to run it. That was later reduced to £56m, but by June last year just £36m had been spent.
but the best "quote" comes from that February report
Conservative enterprise spokesman Nick Ramsay said: "While it is welcome to see ministers evaluating their policies and closing down a failing scheme to reinvest in other job creation programmes, this is testament to Labour's failure to properly invest in job creation schemes which actually deliver for the people of Wales."
11 comments:
"people who were having the most difficulty getting into work"
Yeah right. I had "difficulty getting into work" last week, the Central Line was not running, and did I get a grant from the bloody EU? Fat chance.
What does "lessons have been learned mean?""We're doing on the job training, making it up as we go along and being well paid for getting things wrong".
"Creating those jobs cost an average of £44,735 each"
Hang on a mo', these jobs haven't been created, they were always there. It's actually cost £45K per person to get them into a job. Now if the government wants to create jobs, they can offer me £45K to employ someone for a few hours a week at the minimum wage and I'd happily employ them for five or six years.
Bayard - whilst your comment is entirely accurate the Genesis 2 scheme is recognised as having created "some jobs" - the problem being "no one is saying what jobs and where" as the document that can be accessed here shows ...
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DBC, yes that's one of the lessons which have been learned.
Pulleeeze, lessons have most definitely been learned:-
1) How to fob off nosy FOI requests
2) How to structure information held such that outsiders finding out the truth is impossible.
We have learned and learned well.
I’m baffled as to how it costs £45k to create each job. Even if the employees were driven to work in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce each day, that still wouldn’t gobble up £45k, would it?
Ralph,
It's calculated as cost of scheme/jobs created.
It might only cost £1K to get someone into a job, but if you only get a 1 in 45 success rate, it's therefore £45K/job.
It's all a pile of publicity-driven crap. Government runs these schemes to make it look like they're doing something, when the real solution requires shifting the incentives to work.
I don't even think you need to worry too much about skills. Put the incentives out there and people will acquire the skills.
The problem in wales is that there's a culture of being a shirker is not seen as too bad by a large amount of the population.
They seem to believe in the magic money tree, and the fact they exist entitles them to OPM.
"They seem to believe in the magic money tree, and the fact they exist entitles them to OPM."
It's not so much that, but the feeling that the English came and took all their mineral wealth then buggered off and left them with nothing and now they are getting something back from the (English) state.
To the extent that that attitude exists at all outside the minds of (English) Daily Mail readers.
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