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According to the surprising results of a new study, more than one in four young people who are being paid a pittance to do tedious, uninspiring work in pointless, dead-end jobs admits to feeling down or depressed always or often, with this figure rising to nearly half among their discarded, unwanted, futureless unemployed peers.
The Prince’s Trust study on happiness unexpectedly found as many as 27% of young people on starvation-level wages in dreary, humdrum work reported occasionally feeling down or depressed – increasing to 48% among those who are facing the prospect of having no future in any way at all because they are not in employment, education or training (Neets).
The findings, based on interviews with 2,136 16- to 25-year-old cast-off, expendable young people in the UK, showed one in 10 felt unable to cope with day-to-day life being treated like a subservient chattel, with those classified as Neets twice as likely to feel unable to cope with constantly being told they’re a complete waste of space as their peers.
However, experts are completely mystified by other findings in the trust’s annual youth happiness index which puzzlingly found that children from families with incomes of more than 5 million a year strangely experience far fewer feelings of hopelessness and pessimism about their future.
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jaynel62 said:
And if the Prince really gave a damn he could create 1000’s of jobs in a blink!
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bobchewie said:
Dear Tom, I hope you reply to this. I have been using a handset reecently and am on 3 network. As result I cannot access your blog. For some reason it is being blocked. I have no idea why…any thoughts? yours is the only wordpress blog that is blocked to me..’webpage cannot be retreived’
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bobchewie said:
Dear Tom, can you help here, did you do a piece about how Tories or paper was trying to discredit MP marageret hodge? i wondered why then saw this..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/louisa-peacock/9307877/DWP-hiding-back-to-work-fraud-from-taxpayers-claims-Margaret-Hodge.html#
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bobchewie said:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/youth-contract/key-initiatives/wage-incentives/local-work-programme-providers/
Local Work Programme providers
Work Programme providers play a key part in working with DWP and Jobcentre Plus to help promote the support available through the Youth Contract to local employers and to identify suitable employment opportunities for participants. Where a wage incentive is appropriate, Work Programme providers will liaise with the employer, provide support and issue claims forms.
If you are an employer who is interested in employing an 18 to 24 year old with support from a wage incentive payment you should register your interest with local Work Programme providers.
The wage incentive is also available to employers through Jobcentre Plus if you take on an unemployed 18 to 24 year old who has been claiming benefit for 6 months.
For details of the Work Programme providers in your area please choose from locations below.
ok so we know that providers have been leaning on the subcontractors ie the poundlands etc..
the reason being that providers dont get paid unless ppl on work program are taken on by a company full time.
but the sub contractors are getting all this lovely free labour ok?
so why bother paying anyone..
but now i see the DWP actually talking about employes talking about paying a wage as ‘incentive’ ???
but hey dont worry guys because they can claim that back…eg .”
issue claims forms.””
sorry in my old world a company took you on gave you some work and paid you a wage..NOT get COMPENSATED..
for taking someone on…
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bobchewie said:
ow then consider this…
when workfare was going on….i dont remember tesco asda, poundland talking about paying anyone UNTIL..
the boycott workfare movement got high profile..
and a lot of companies pulled out of that scheme due to the bad publicity they got at result..
so….now the firms can claim ‘compensation’?
and let me guess where that will go,,,dodgy and excessive claims….
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bobchewie said:
“Where a wage incentive is appropriate,”
when was it not???
what the frick is this?
so are they an employee or not?
answers on a postcard please…
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minou999 said:
So what were the conclusions of this exceptional report? Let me guess, it shows that the government is right on track. Increase in depression (more money spent on anti-depressants), increase in those accepting slave labour as the new normal (any menial job will do) and an increase in suicides (population reduction amongst the young adults should slow down the birth rate even more).
The economy needs a pool of desperate, suicidal workers who are willing to work for breadcrumbs. We are following the Chinese model.
Thatcher predicted this in the 80’s, I can just hear her cackling with joy. And all the Queen has to worry about is changing the rights of succession for the expected over-indulged sprog that is soon to be another burden on the public purse. Give me a break.
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bobchewie said:
Well minou999 there is some progress for the youth..work program providers and DWP are suggesting that employers should pay ppl to work, but only as an incentive though, but the good news is that the employers can claim that back..so thats alright, then…
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Don said:
Following the shock findings of the Prince’s trust, a further study is expected to reveal that people over the age of 50 may also feel depressed.
Suggestions that unemployed offspring’s remaining home until middle age, or the lack of affordable housing was behind this trend were quickly dismissed last night by a ConDem government spokesman.
“I don’t accept that overcrowding is a factor” he said “Why can’t parent’s simply rent their second homes to their family as we do?”
Other surprise findings are expected to emerge. A government insider reports many who saw their pensions decimated feel anxious about the future. While those due to retire were also reported to be unhappy at having to work harder and longer for no gain.
The prime minister David Cameroon said of the study;
“Look, we’re all in this together, and it’s only right that older people feel every bit as depressed as the young.”
Ed Milliband was unavailable for comment.
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bobchewie said:
@Don I wonder if those Tory Mps get housing benefit paid to them..on those sublet 2nd homes..
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bobchewie said:
oh god…
DWP ‘hiding back-to-work fraud from taxpayers’, claims Margaret Hodge
The Government has come under attack for refusing to publish details of more than 100 investigations into potential fraud in the back-to-work industry, claiming the cases are not in the “public interest”.
Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is “hiding” critical information from the taxpayer about the potential scale of wrongdoing across the sector and called on ministers to release the full details.
Since 2006, there have been 126 cases of potential fraud investigated in the welfare-to-work industry. Just 11 of these relate to crisis-hit A4e.
But after repeated requests for information, the DWP told The Telegraph it would not be disclosing details of the other 115 cases after deciding the “public interest” argument was not strong enough.
Of the total, 46 had a “case to answer” and were branded “non-compliance” or “false representations”, official documents show, suggesting the scale of the problem runs far deeper than A4e, which has faced several allegations about its conduct in recent months.
Figures show just five of the 126 cases are “ongoing”, with the rest “closed”. Mrs Hodge said: “The cases are 100pc in the public interest. More and more of taxpayers’ money is being used to fund private sector companies delivering public sector services.”
The allegations led to A4e founder, Emma Harrison, resigning as chairman in February. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on her part.
THERE IS NO SUGGESTION OF ANY WRONGDOING ON HER PART..
oh ha ha ha..of course not none at all..why should we think so???
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/louisa-peacock/9307877/DWP-hiding-back-to-work-fraud-from-taxpayers-claims-Margaret-Hodge.html#
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bobchewie said:
http://www.latentexistence.me.uk/iain-duncan-smith-is-proud-of-getting-people-off-benefits/
theres a bit here on how question time is run..
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bobchewie said:
Good thing you found out about the Chinese connection I did wonder if it was this age restriction thing which is so ridicously complicated anyway but i still wonder why I was singled out I have my thoughts on the Subject of which i might discuss later
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bobchewie said:
Did you see the independant on about how we should not be whinging bout train fare increases
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