6th March

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Contracts news

The Select Committee report on FND and Commissioning has come out. Cheat sheet here!

Reed, A4e and Dering all win contracts in Australia (as do a bunch of non-UK firms)

The ESF round is under way

Even MPs can't get accurate performance and contracts information out of the government. Listing Carter & Carter and Instant Muscle as current contractors is the most obvious fault

Other news

Community Care has a profile of Remploy

And for contrast, a Serco story from the FT

No new ethnic minority provisions, but the Commission for Equality and Human Rights will monitor the impact of the recession on potentially disadvantaged groups

More money for childcare and employment training schemes in Northern Ireland

The latest tabloid dole-scrounger fad? Obese IB claimants

Research

Distance Travelled - it works, according to a new DWP report examining its use in Workstep delivery

Dan Finn's latest report examines 'differential payment', i.e. paying more for harder-to-help customers to prevent parking, and recommends a range of possible remedies to discourage creaming and parking in FND

Making decisions about work in one-earner households

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