Tell BBC Radio 4 about New Deal and FND experience
Submitted by Paul Convery on Wed, 10/03/2010 - 11:20am
The producers of BBC Radio 4's "File on Four" are preparing a programme about welfare reform and New Deal. They would like to hear views (good and bad) from New Deal and FND clients.
Here's what they say:
"We are researching a programme for BBC Radio 4 and we want to hear from clients who have been on New Deal or Flexible New Deal back to work courses within the last year. What has been your personal experience? Has the course lived up to your expectation? Please email : Kate [dot] O'Hara [at] bbc [dot] co [dot] uk or text, or phone on 07834 846 059 with your details of how we can contact you quickly. We’ll call you back."
BBC Radio, News and Current Affairs
BBC, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/fileon4
Comments
hmmm will the programme ever be put out ?????????
And will any customers call with good views?
I might contact them and tell them of my positive, yes, POSITIVE experience of Ingeus with whom I started FND last month.
Don't worry Highpark1, I am asured that the programme is currently in production ... they have been interviewing some contributers this week and will continue next week. Generally when a File on Four programme gets made, it gets broadcast.
And, I would urge fightworkfare and others to get cracking, they are looking to interview ND and FND clients in the next few days.
I seem to remember the inside out investigation did it get shown ?? I know people that they have been talking 2 i gave them the phone number
Do the BBC really want to hear anyone say that New Deal and FND is good? I suppose it depends on who is really behind the programme. It's more likely to be the usual witch hunt on Labour's effectiveness at helping the unemployed and the whole idea of private businesses making money out of these programmes (which as we all know isn't anything new anyway).
It would be great to have a new slant and a positive upbeat programme, but I fear it will be politician bashing as is the want of our beloved media. Call me a cynic ... but ... "CYNIC"!
new deal would have been a good if it was run Properly. ie not leaving clients in a room for 13 weeks looking at the walls,
It may be slightly off-topic (happy if Paul C wants to put this on a new thread) but I feel a bit sorry for the BBC. On the one hand the Tories hate them for cosying up to Labour and being pinko Trotskyites, and yet people like Lazarus are accusing them of Labour-bashing. They can't both be right, can they? It probably indicates that the BBC generally do quite well on impartiality - even if (as most broadcasters do) they tend to fall in the trap of editing for viewing figures rather than the truth sometimes.
Don't get me wrong Raven ... the UK media bashes everyone, but in the case of New Deal it is obviously aimed at Labour as New Deal was their baby. Most of the time the media aren't particularly bothered who they bash as long as they're bashing someone. And as is our want, if we can find a negative slant then it's far more entertaining than a positive or balanced one.
But if you want to start a new thread on the failings of the BBC ... let's go for it!! ;-)
Fair do's Lazarus - point well made. We're probably arguing the same point.
The programme will be broadcast on Tuesday 23rd March at 8pm and repeated at 5pm on the following Sunday 28th March ... on Radio 4, of course. We shall swipe an MP3 podcast file and post it here ... just in case.
should be good
Ahead of the programme, they spun-out a news story too ... see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8580...
The programme can be heard at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00...
This programme was a half an hour Jobcentre Plus Fest and a Parking Fest and not one about welfare reform and New Deal. Lots of innuendo and ill founded comments and totally imbalanced. Who would have thunk that? (Oh ... I did - see previous post from 11/3).
There were allegations about advertised jobs not actually being real, vacancy numbers being inflated by JCP to hit their own targets, taking zero contract hours vacancies, having customer service managers who "look like security guards", JCP Advisers who don't understand/offer the right programmes, crucifying the customer service charter. They did at least have Jim Knight on the programme to defend JCP although not much.
The payment by results debate was supposedly about FND (although they were using a recent report about Pathways as their evidence base) and making lots of assumptions that providers won't help those who are harder to help and will just get any old job for people who are easy to place. Oh ... and Theresa May stating categorically that long term unemployed aren't getting any help.
Call me cynical but who really instigated the programme? As the Conservatives are seeking to basically privatise JCP, was it a programme conjured up by a Tory sympathiser to support their agenda?
The above comment looks ridiculous - as a victim of ND I can assure readers that the BBC programme was a fair and accurate report of the facts.
Following the election, the New Coalition Government has opened the files for all of us to read...hence the death of ND...fND and the rest of Blair's crap.
Now the providers have been given the final ultimatum...deliver the goods of get NOTHING!!
As for JC+...perhaps being finally rid of New Labour's interference we will see a dramatic change in procedures.
New Labourites should crawl away and...