The mantra says that the private sector is always far better at getting things done than bureaucracy bound government provision.
My daughter Bethan has been signed off the dole and into training for work delivered by a private provider. The bits i am gleaning are nothing to crow about. People who do not engage with the project are tolerated while they sit there getting paid to do nothing as of course the agency is getting paid for every bottom on seat, even if the bottom is not actually there at the time.
There have been gems like the people who were offered job placements, turned up, were asked to work, so they walked out.
Now this behaviour needs to have been challenged a long time back, but of course we are in pure Cameron country so the private sector would have been performance focused and sorted them out, or did they continue to take the money and let them go and sit in the corner and play cards?
The alternative being throwing them off the programme and the profit going with them.
So I wonder if the private sector really is the answer.
Bethan has an interview next week with a care home, this is a home that cannot keep its staff and will pay very little to have her there, she is basically a subsidised member of staff in a place that pays people so little they walk as soon as they can.
Hmmm, they need staff anyway, so she could probably have got a proper job there without the weeks of training. They will probably take her on when she finishes as a trainee, unless of course they can have another freebie.
This would of course put Bethan back on the dole but there might have been some wasted money, well actually if this was the council wasting money we would be up in arms.
It's the private sector taking money - so that must be good then...
R
My daughter Bethan has been signed off the dole and into training for work delivered by a private provider. The bits i am gleaning are nothing to crow about. People who do not engage with the project are tolerated while they sit there getting paid to do nothing as of course the agency is getting paid for every bottom on seat, even if the bottom is not actually there at the time.
There have been gems like the people who were offered job placements, turned up, were asked to work, so they walked out.
Now this behaviour needs to have been challenged a long time back, but of course we are in pure Cameron country so the private sector would have been performance focused and sorted them out, or did they continue to take the money and let them go and sit in the corner and play cards?
The alternative being throwing them off the programme and the profit going with them.
So I wonder if the private sector really is the answer.
Bethan has an interview next week with a care home, this is a home that cannot keep its staff and will pay very little to have her there, she is basically a subsidised member of staff in a place that pays people so little they walk as soon as they can.
Hmmm, they need staff anyway, so she could probably have got a proper job there without the weeks of training. They will probably take her on when she finishes as a trainee, unless of course they can have another freebie.
This would of course put Bethan back on the dole but there might have been some wasted money, well actually if this was the council wasting money we would be up in arms.
It's the private sector taking money - so that must be good then...
R
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