The cost of punishing people?
Aug 20, 2023 12:58:38 GMT
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 20, 2023 12:58:38 GMT
"Figures Suggest Government Back-To-Work Programme Is Costing £40,000 Per Success"
www.politicshome.com/news/article/figures-suggest-government-backtowork-programme-costing-40000-per-success
Exclusive: The Prime Minister’s flagship back-to-work programme is estimated to cost over £40,000 per successful participant, PoliticsHome can reveal.
PoliticsHome analysed the current estimated outcomes and data from the initial business case and subsequent government reports into the government’s Restart scheme to work out the value for money of the £1.7bn scheme.
Previous estimates for the support programme for those out of work for a year or more have suggested it will cost £2,429 per participant. But PoliticsHome understands the DWP’s business case for the programme aimed for it to have an ‘additionality’ of just six per cent – meaning six out of one hundred of those who enter the scheme were set to get long-term work that they wouldn’t otherwise have gotten without the scheme’s support.
Factoring in the number of people expected to participate in the scheme over its lifetime – 700,000 according to recently published government figures – and an estimated total cost of £1.7bn – suggests a cost of £40,476 per actual new job created.
........Even back last Century when I briefly worked at the DSS (as it was then) a lot of these programmes never made sense, the concept is to waste money as long as you look like you are forcing people back into work, yet we have "full employment". Can this waste of money be justified with such a poor return?
At the moment a good friend of mine who was made redundant during Covid has just started to sign on, he is 64 and a half years old and is due to retire at 66, he is being hassled non stop by the staff to go on courses and the like, he has worked from 16 and never been unemployed for a single day in the 58 years since then, where is the logic in it?
www.politicshome.com/news/article/figures-suggest-government-backtowork-programme-costing-40000-per-success
Exclusive: The Prime Minister’s flagship back-to-work programme is estimated to cost over £40,000 per successful participant, PoliticsHome can reveal.
PoliticsHome analysed the current estimated outcomes and data from the initial business case and subsequent government reports into the government’s Restart scheme to work out the value for money of the £1.7bn scheme.
Previous estimates for the support programme for those out of work for a year or more have suggested it will cost £2,429 per participant. But PoliticsHome understands the DWP’s business case for the programme aimed for it to have an ‘additionality’ of just six per cent – meaning six out of one hundred of those who enter the scheme were set to get long-term work that they wouldn’t otherwise have gotten without the scheme’s support.
Factoring in the number of people expected to participate in the scheme over its lifetime – 700,000 according to recently published government figures – and an estimated total cost of £1.7bn – suggests a cost of £40,476 per actual new job created.
........Even back last Century when I briefly worked at the DSS (as it was then) a lot of these programmes never made sense, the concept is to waste money as long as you look like you are forcing people back into work, yet we have "full employment". Can this waste of money be justified with such a poor return?
At the moment a good friend of mine who was made redundant during Covid has just started to sign on, he is 64 and a half years old and is due to retire at 66, he is being hassled non stop by the staff to go on courses and the like, he has worked from 16 and never been unemployed for a single day in the 58 years since then, where is the logic in it?
