A chilly spring morning in 2010 and in A4e’s Edinburgh office, staff employed by Emma Harrison — David Cameron’s fallen ‘back to work’ tsar — were in the midst of a full-blown panic. The cause of the ...

The scandal surrounding the welfare-to-work firm A4e (Action for Employment) has again exposed how large swathes of public funds have been handed over to private corporations, under both Labour and ...

A4e received £46m from the taxpayer in the first year of the government’s flagship Work Programme – despite failing to meet minimum targets for getting the long-term unemployed into work. The Work ...

The Government has terminated a contract with welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that continuing would be 'too great a risk'. However, the company still has 11 contracts with the Government, ...

For A4e, it seems things go from bad to worse. Yesterday I reported it had failed to make the cut for the £1bn Department for Work and Pensions health assessment contract framework. It has now emerged ...

Catherine Verwaerde had been unemployed for 13 months when she was referred to A4e. A supporter of the Government's drive to get people back into work, she hoped they would help her to find a job.

There is "still a cloud" hanging over the firm A4e that had a government contract to help people into work, said the chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee. Her committee has criticised the ...

The welfare-to-work company A4e was forced to withdraw from part of a £900,000 project to place vulnerable people into work after an employee forged signatures on official forms. A4e was helping to ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Department for Work and Pensions UK news every morning. The Department for Work and Pensions has ordered an independent audiot of all of ...

The Government has terminated a contract with welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that continuing would be “too great a risk”. Employment minister Chris Grayling said the company's Mandatory Work ...