Sunday, August 15, 2010

Formal complaint against A4E for unfair treatment


Rt Hon David Blunkett MP, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, May 2005–November 2005

At about 9.30pm I discovered that the 27 Categories and 77 Tags I have created for the NAC site at churchandandstate.org.uk had been deleted! It meant that the website was out of action and no postings were showing. As I was assuring Declan that I had back-ups of all my data, they all reappeared - somebody had exported the categories and tags, deleted them, and then imported them back to my WordPress! I have now changed all passwords, not that I believe it will have much of an affect. Anyway, this is Declan's formal complaint against A4E (Action for Employment) for unfair treatment, to go by registered post to the chairman, Emma Harrison, first thing tomorrow morning:



A4E, a private sector company, have £300 million of Government training contracts and controls 25% of the long-term unemployment budget for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). Declan has been dealing with them non-stop for two weeks now, and with Harrison for the last week (see blog of 12 August Chairman of A4E in the spotlight). Hopefully, it will not be lost on Harrison that the above letter has been copied to David Blunkett MP, A4E Adviser and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

It was, of course, the DWP that put us to the street and kept us there for more than 2 1/2 years because Declan did not “sign on” TWO DAYS BEFORE he was due to do so on 29 September 2006 (see blog of 21 June Department for Work and Pensions double breaches the Data Protection Act: Letter to the Information Commissioner). This is what the NAC website looked like at 9.30pm: