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Traffic light reports to Feb 09 published
Anyone who remembers the traffic light analysis from earlier this year might be interested in the latest release, placed in the House of Commons library a couple of weeks back.
It shows performance against target for all employment provisions, including job entries, spend against budget and more. It's very useful for understanding how well each type of programme is performing at a national level, but doesn't break down information by provider or by region. I'll try to find some time to analyse it soon, but in the meantime, the previous article gives some solid guidance on how to understand what it all means.
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Incidentally, unless I'm very much mistaken, the exclusive claimed by Regen last week on Pathways to Work performance was derived from this report. This made it an update to the previous stories on Pathways to Work performance, rather than a new story.
I see that DWP have published seperate figures for the non-provider led pathways Programme is there a robust way of comparing the provider led and JC+ led performance or any clear opinions as to which, if either, is doing well?
Hi Dave,
The DWP set up the two types of Pathways to Work partly as a way of testing whether the private or public sector did a better job of delivery. Unfortunately, you'll be pushed to find anyone who thinks that it can achieve this aim.
Reasons why this is so include:
There may be more - I'm working from memory of discussions with providers about this. What I would say is that the work of the taskforce appears to have been very positive, and there seems to be an increasing chance of turning the provision round. I'll be publishing a report based on their conference session sometime over the next week or so.
Has anyone heard if PPDG are in trouble after losing the Birmingham etc contracts
PPDG seem to have won at least £140 million of new contracts in FND, so they seem to be in a strong position. Working for a contractor that too has lost an area we have still done well in other areas.
PPDG have to move their main operations to The Marches & coventry & Warwickshire etc, very expensive I would imagine! Whats interesting about all of this is people talk about FND and its regions in x amount of millions be dont forget it has to be earned and earned in a recession. PPDG must be gutted they came top of the star ratings but got the booby prize, someone must have upset DWP.
I'm going to jump in on this. I would imagine Pertemps are fairly unhappy about losing Birmingham, but shutting down in one place and opening in another isn't so much more expensive than what most of the other providers are doing. There are winners who don't even have existing delivery in the UK. It'll cost more, but it'll hardly break the bank. As I've said previously, being a good existing local provider does not give you a major advantage in tendering for new contracts.
Daniel, the data in this thread (and the original one)have been useful. Any plans to chase up again for the last year?