Our contract will create 60 jobs, says Wise Group
Submitted by Helen Crowther on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 2:53pm
The Department for Work and Pensions have awarded Scottish social enterprise, The Wise Group, a multimillion pound contract to run a job scheme in North-East England. This will lead to the creation of 60 jobs, mainly for charities to help workless families.
Thw Wise Group is one of eight prime contractors chosen to deliver a new £200 million payment-by-results scheme, to support families with multiple problems. The Wise Group have named the scheme 'FamilyWise' across the north-east.
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Ooh they'll need more than 60 people. Also on reading the article in full it reveals itself to be just another 'work programme', to tackle 'worklessness'! Before you can tackle worklessness you must tackle the fact that there are not enough jobs to go around! It's simple maths, think of it this way; there are 3 jobs and 300 people applying for those jobs. If ALL of those people make their CVs look really good,go for interview technique classes, and try, I mean really TRY to do their best... HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL GET THE JOBS????
Have you worked it out yet?
Can't argue with that @Artintherightplace.
It's what I (and a few others) refer to as musical chairs!
Instead of adding an extra chair we take another one away, and to compensate we play the music faster and faster in the hope it will help! Of course in 4 weeks time when the music stops....
I could give other examples such as:
Two or three Xmas's ago the streets were alive with young children on their new bikes/scooters, and yet this Xmas there were virtually none. Almost everyone really is struggling.
Or perhaps:
In the last episode of The Fairy JobMother(some time ago), two of her 'clients' were after jobs against 100+ and 70+ other applicants. They got the jobs - shock, horror, surprise, and good luck to them, etc. But how come only some of us can see that the 2 who got the jobs arn't the problem, it's the 168+ left over that is!
No big arguements folks! Thankfully most of us can 100% disagree and yet still be 100% polite with our views.
But I really think we should at least try to better understand the problem, and then hopefully better improve it, rather than simply decide it's something else, and just throw a few more 100s of millions around to see what happens.