'"Park and Skim" still proving a nice little earner for Work Programme Prime Providers' Update

A really splendid "I have of course given back all the money I made from it [not]" The Work Programme is failing the taxpayer piece from  Richard Johnson -  "a special adviser on welfare to work*, former managing director of welfare to work at Serco, and former chief executive of welfare to work provider, Ingeus"** - is now available, in which he agrees with the Select Committee Report.

This stands nicely alongside his The Work Programme's only success is at 'creaming and parking'- in which he explains that it was of course every other prime provider doing this, but not the ones that employed him, and The Work Programme should help the jobless, not contractors in which he rubbishes the DWP's first report on the scheme, and explains that the contracts are set up in a way that makes it really difficult for anyone who isn't or wasn't on the inside to have a clear idea about what is going on.  

* Richard works for the Select Committee in this capacity, alongside being Lead Advisor at ACEVO, the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations and Chair at Social Investment Partnerships

** Ingeus obviously agree with Richard. As was pointed out in the G just the other day, Ingeus UK's current chief executive, Dean James, is a former senior DWP civil servant.