Saturday, September 18, 2010

A4E continues to flout the law despite Declan's appeal

Action for Employment (A4E), a private sector company that has £300 million of Government training contracts and controls 25% of the long-term unemployment budget for the Department for Work and Pensions, continues to flout the law despite our jobcentre confirming in writing that they broke it (see previous blog Jobcentre confirms A4E broke the law) and Declan's appeal against them for an Appeal Tribunal (see blog of 14 September Declan appeals A4E).

Rather than this provider choosing to refer their Holloway branch's proposed jobseeker's agreement to the Decision Maker (the Secretary of State) in accordance with section 9(6) of the Jobseekers Act 1995, they have transferred Declan back to their Camden branch. Because we have to put a minimum of 8 hours per week there using the computers to look for work, Declan wasn't too keen about wasting more than an hour travelling back and forth and asked to be transferred to the Holloway branch, which is no more than a ten minute walk away for us. This is from A4E:



After more than a year of Broadway Homelessness and Support trying to obtain Declan's birth certificate from Ireland (see blog of 10 September Broadway Homelessness and Support), yesterday it finally arrived in the post ... in an envelope addressed to S Riches! On 18 June 2008 we were robbed of all our money and documents in the Sisters of Mercy's Dellow Centre (see blog of 4 September Sisters of Mercy revisited - our first YouTube video; this blog also contains a letter from the Papal Nuncio). I have asked my A4E employment officer to inquire of Broadway whether they are willing to assist me with requesting my Irish citizenship certificate (see blog of 13 September Broadway will help me become a Spanish citizen!). To up the ante on this request, I have not only copied everyone au fait with the robbery into this email to him, but added the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the list:



In his opening address to the Queen at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on Thursday, the pope has once again stirred controversy after he associated atheism with the Nazis. Coming from an organisation that treats child sexual abuse as trivial, that's about as rich as it gets! Check this short clip for an investigation by Channel 4: