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Testing the fairness of workfare

I got caught up in some EU funding fiddle in Bournemouth. Ostensibly, I was on a 'placement' with a charity (Bournemouth Churches Housing Association), but they found me a 'work experience' placement of 30 hours a week (unpaid) with a private company (others went to Wilkinson and similar shops). The actual DWP contract holder was Bournemouth University - BCHA were just their sub contractors. There is a 'like for like' funding arrangement with the EU, if you are doing a placement with some 'social benefit', so the entire thing is a screwover of EU funds but no solicitor is remotely interested in the HR Act in Bournemouth (if you're unemployed you must be sponging, workshy etc etc). Seems to me that those at the top are sponging and fiddling far far more than anyone at the bottom.

20-Mar-2012

11:41 pm