New Deal and Flexible New Deal Exposed

Be careful Jane Glover, or you will feel the Great Wrath of DWP they don’t like it one bit when the truth comes out, truth hurts them…

Flexible new deal is more of a joke than new deal.While creating futures was a providers in the arun area i attended a 2 week work course,one computer between 8 people,i questioned the tutor because they could not spell and got taken off the course and…

Flexible new deal is more of a joke than new deal.While creating futures was a providers in the arun area i attended a 2 week work course,one computer between 8 people,i questioned the tutor because they could not spell and got taken off the course and…

Flexible new deal is more of a joke than new deal.While creating futures was a providers in the arun area i attended a 2 week work course,one computer between 8 people,i questioned the tutor because they could not spell and got taken off the course and…

I have been told by my local job centre that I am to go on Flexible New Deal. I have nearly completed a 26 weeks course on Flexible Routeway during which I have improved my computer skills in excel, learnt how to complete a CV, and interview technique…

I have been told by my local Job Centre that I am to go onto Flexible New Deal. I have nearly completed 26 weeks on Flexible Routeway which involved compling a CV, Job Searching and interview techiques. I went on Flexible Routeway in order to update my computer skills.

I don’t see why I have got to go on Flexible New Deal as it seems that Flexible New I have already done

One of my colleagues has been booted out of the above for this comment, had her money stopped, and is now being used as a scapegoat. She has high blood pressure, a seriously ill family member and is now having to get her animals re-homed or put down as…

I have been told to go on Flexible New Deal even though I have nearly completed a 26 week course on Flexible Routeway at the end of which I have not had any interview.

It seems to be a waste of time as there is nothing at the end of it for me anyway. I might as well do voluntary work which I can’t do if I am sent on these courses. I have had no encouragement in that I am actively employable at the age of 54, educated and with 35 years experience.

Please help.

I too have been on the new deal program, My placement was at BEST although the tutor’s where courteous there help and advice was limited to “use the pc or paper to find a job” something i have been doing while at home. Finally after being on the course and have finished it albiet still unemployed the actual job center has sent me on a course for an SIA license. I keep hearing that the funding has been cut and although i will do the course i will have to pay for my own license.

I been sanction for not going to 13 week shit course, and because I don’t want to be patronized and intimidated and I have anger management issues regarding how I wish to be treated and I do not wish to sit in a room full of convicts druggies and yobs, they think I should have no cash. I will appeal, and ask whether they would like to be Patronized and Intimidated and be in a room full or dead heads with no respect to anyone and no regard how to behave.

The place is a joke

I am from the North West. The situation I am in at the moment is I have been unemployed for over 6 months and before that I was on a full time Business Admin course (full time 34+ hours, UNPAID) working in an office (1 and a half hours travel from my home). I have a NVQ level 3 in Business Admin and also a Diploma in IT Hardware (2 years), amongst many other qualifications.

The Jobcentre originally sent me to a local A4E (after 3 months) which was the most dehumanizing and depressing situation I have ever been in. It lasted around 11 weeks. At first I was promised “We can find you a work placement in Admin or IT”. I started and after the first 2 weeks of empty promises I was then told that they do not deal with Admin or IT placements, only retail… (I will get to this in a minute).

So, on the 5-6th week I was told of some “options” for work placements I could do, to which they give the choices of – Poundland or The Range (a store which sells home items), This was unacceptable as I had heard from other “customers” in the room who had been through this before that A4E always send people to those companies and no jobs ever come out of it. I was told this was to gain some “work experience”, which I did not need. So I said I would not work for these companies as it was slave labour, and I would find a charity to volunteer for instead. (I ended up finding a local charity shop to work in).

The A4E staff where extremely rude to both me, and the other people attending. There was a lady aged 30-35 who was from a European country. She could speak 3 languages and was previously an interior designer. This one day she was sitting next to me looking at an interior design company website and the A4E staff member in the room said to the lady “Get off that website, its not allowed”, she asked why? And he replied “It contains video material and we don’t allow that on our computers”. This “video” was a flash player showing designs of the work which the company does on its main webpage. She said “So I am not allowed to look at interior design companies? Even this one I used to work for?” and the A4E staff member replied “Lets not talk about this now, I have told you to get off the website”. This continued on and on. He spoke to her as if she was an idiot. In the end the lady was crying, and she had to leave.

I also had many encounters with this A4E staff member. He would go on about how important timekeeping was. I was always in at 8.45am (15 minutes early) and this one day there was a car crash in front of the bus I was on, which delayed me getting to the A4E centre and I was 6 minutes late (9.06am) and you should have seen the look on his face when I walked in through the door. Before I could speak he started yelling “Your late!” . His attitude was terrible. Every day he would find something to try and pick on you.

I could go on and write a story about my time at A4E but I am sure most of you have experienced the same.

So how do I find out what section19(5)(b)or 20A (2)(b) of the jobseeker’s act 1995 is?
Perhaps a letter to someone to do with freedom of information?

We had a prostitute at Crescent Training in Southampton she was working her way around the building and finally got booted off the course last week!

This also happens at Crescent Training in Southampton. We are meant to be there 9.30am to 4.30pm. We have never been there until this time we always get let out at between 3pm and 3.45pm. Not complaining as such, because its useless, non-productive dum…

That’s really bad, there is a lot of buying and selling of peoples personal details going on in the world and the fact that these people quite obviously sold on a persons details is absolutely scandalous. Can this person not sue them and make a test case out of it?

I have a Blue Badge which my doctor supported me with.She filled in her report and sent it off, she signed to say ” I have a mobility impairment which makes it impossible, or virtually impossible for me to walk, considerations such as carrying parcels are not to be taken into account. The disability is permanent and not just spasmodic and is of a physical rather than a psychological nature.”
I also have a report from my GP This is a statement to say
“I also have osteoartritis in my right hip which is severe and stops me from walking”"The osteoarthritis is getting worse and he cannot walk more than 50 yards”
“Mr Fairminers disability means that he is unable to work”
However one of the Dodgy doctors in the pay of DLA, who never saw me walk anywhere, said I could walk 400metres. His report was fictitious, misleading and certainly not about me !! Because of this I have been fighting for 3 years to get the higher rate mobility. Tribunals keep harping on about this miraculous 400 metres walk, and refusing my appeal. I have e mailed every MP in the country. I have begun a campaign. For further info, look at my website.

OMG now I’m really worried!! I’ve been on JSA for jut under 13 weeks, I received a letter from the Jobcentre asking for a meeting soon to discuss the next steps, I’ve been told this is where I become a on 2nd stage jsa and become entitled to New Deal. But now that I am hearing all the horror stories here I am so worried that they will sanction my benefits too. I mean I have been applying to jobs, but recently one of their advisers told me that I only have one job option and that is limiting my searches and that has to change, I wasn’t even ware there was only one, when I applied they asked me what I do and I answered!!

What’s going on in this country people? We pay our taxes for the Olympics and all that, and our people are starving because some snotty jobcentre adviser thinks they are not doing enough to get back to work?? How are you supposed to live if your only income is stopped, basically they are telling people to become criminals!!