Specialist Work Programme providers should get more funding for new services, say MPs
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Specialist Work Programme providers should get more funding for new services, say MPs

21 May 2013 | Finance | Tania Mason

The Department for Work and Pensions should use some of the money it has saved on outcome payments in the first year of the Work Programme, to fund new services from specialist providers to help the most disadvantaged jobseekers engage with the Programme, an influential committee of MPs has said.

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