Department for Education officials have denied that they are planning to make redundancies, despite having announced proposals to cut around 1,000 posts. Lawyers for the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union have said they are “totally mystified” by the claim, and have warned the DfE it will face unfair dismissal claims if it does not follow redundancy procedures. “To claim you can cut a quarter of your staff without making redundancies really does defy belief," said PCS’s general secretary Mark Serwotka.
The government's Work Programme to get people back to work is “extremely poor”, according to the public accounts committee of MPs, The Daily Mail reports. “The programme is particularly failing young people and the hardest to help,” said Labour's Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee. During the first 14 months of the programme just 3.6 per cent of benefit claimants on the scheme found lasting work.
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