27th May

HEADLINES

Interested in flexible New Deal subcontracting? The DWP have sent out a form to fill that puts you on a database of candidates - http://snipurl.com/2aumf

The DWP want providers to share their employers with the Local Employment Partnerships - http://snipurl.com/2aume (pdf)

Conservatives are proposing full-time training and community work for young jobseekers after 3 months, mandatory courses for released prisoners, and integrated basic skills provision in core delivery, finally opening up clear policy differences with the Labour approach. Details in a speech at the Centre for Policy Studies today - http://snipurl.com/2aunc (news article) or http://snipurl.com/2aunr (the speech, pdf)

OTHER NEWS

A critique of 'voice risk analysis' to detect fraudulent benefit claimants - http://snipurl.com/2aulj

DWP PR spending halved this year - http://snipurl.com/2aulm

Stephen Timms, Minister for Welfare Reform, in a YouTube 'chat' on Pathways to Work - http://snipurl.com/2auln

Women-only business centre opens in Newham, with proposals for a nationwide network - http://snipurl.com/2aulo

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