As part
of their “Week of Action” on Thursday 5th December 2013 Boycott
Workfare will be focussing on the Charities that will be handing in their
tenders today to access unpaid claimant workers as part of the new Community
Work Placements regime.
Community
Work Placements, originally announced by George Osborne as “Help to Work” on
30th September 2013, is a set of new measures that will be forced on
claimants who have come through the two year Work Programme without securing
employment. The scheme is described as an “intensive option” where the providers
will “deliver mandatory work placements for claimants for 30 hours a week for up
to 26 weeks, alongside supported jobsearch”. Or put another way, it’s a six
month sentence to force claimants work for free or lose their
benefits.
Typically the 33 companies who have the option of
tendering for this new scheme are the very companies who currently run the Work
Programme: the companies who failed to assist the claimants back into work over
two years are now being given an extra six months to make even more money off
the back of the unemployed! These “Employment Related Supported Services
Suppliers” include three charities Boycott Workfare has flagged up before.
Take a look attheir finances at http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/find-charities/
by inputting their charity number. Then e-mail or contact them on social media to express
your distaste at their continued abuse of the Benefits system to line their own
pockets!
THE SHAW TRUST: business.development@shaw-trust.org.uk
(287785)
@Shaw_Trust
THE CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS: a.watmouth@tcv.org.uk
(261009)
@tcvtweets
GROUNDWORK UK: gduxbury@groundwork.org.uk
(291558)
@groundworkuk
There are
also two more charities touting for business as “secondary delivery providers”,
seeking to subcontract from the above and the usual suspects such as Ingeus,
G4S, A4e and Serco. They are the supposedly christian organisations The
Salvation Army and the YMCA. Key in “Salvation Army” or “YMCA” to the web link
above to find out how they are profiting in your locality. The details below are
for their head offices in London.
THE SALVATION ARMY: info@salvationarmy.org.uk
@salvationarmyuk
THE YMCA: press@ymca.org.uk or enquiries@ymca.org.uk
@ymca_england
Don’t
forget to sign the petition calling for an end to all benefit sanctions without
exceptions:http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/benefit-sanctions-must-be-stopped-without-exceptions-in-uk
