At just a tad over half a million quid, a piece of cake for the zero contracted minimum wage worker with 'connections' to a very secretive mortgage broker who dishes out the most amazing 'mortgages'.
Well, it has been shown that being in the outdoors does improve psychological wellbeing.
Mind you, with some of the perpetual whingers on here, it could be a free holiday in Tunisia, contraceptives supplied and they'd still find something to moan about.:p
3 weeks outward bounds sounds rather easy...wake up get fed breakfast...go outside till 1pm..go back in for lunch...2-6 doing something else then back in for tea..off to the pub at 8 for a few hours and back in bed
they're not going to do anything thats H&S risky so anything sharper than a dull butter knife won't be used so it'll end up 3 weeks of crappy team building exercises that probably have to be done indoors incase someone slips and sues the site
3 weeks outward bounds sounds rather easy...wake up get fed breakfast...go outside till 1pm..go back in for lunch...2-6 doing something else then back in for tea..off to the pub at 8 for a few hours and back in bed
they're not going to do anything thats H&S risky so anything sharper than a dull butter knife won't be used so it'll end up 3 weeks of crappy team building exercises that probably have to be done indoors incase someone slips and sues the site
Teach them to mountain climb or something. Doesn't prince Charles do something similar.
Esther McVey just announced a new scheme. The long term unemployed will be required to climb K2 in winter. When asked for comment she said "well, somebody's got to be the first to do it, right?"
How would that make them feel good about themselves?
Yeah. How would being forced into something be any different to how things are now? They made me feel the opposite - I'd want to do it even less, and would rather sign up to something on my own accord.
How would this scheme, which let's face it will be hideously expensive to implement, help the unemployed find work?.
Stop evading difficult questions Paul, answer them. You used the same tactics of evading questions you couldn't answer in your other thread the other day.
Many long term unemployed have children, and many are single parents. Who arranges and pays for childcare while these thousands of parents are away for a week or two?.
How, while on this course, do they meet their mandatory job search obligations?. If an unemployed person today takes a week away from home they lose their JSA, because if they are on a holiday they are deemed to be unable to jobsearch properly.
JSA claimants only account for a tiny percentage of all benefit claimants, so does your scheme only affect them or the 97% of claimants who claim other benefits?.
Serious questions.
Personally I'd quite happily have a week away on such a course, but what's the point if it proves to be hugely expensive for the taxpayer and does nothing to help secure employment?.
I believe IDS has a similar pilot of this scheme. The unemployed are transported to an `outward bound` camp on the Yorkshire moors. The camp has barbed wire fence around of course, to keep out immigrant scroungers. The unemployed in the camp are given re-education and training.
This is still the interim scheme.
IDS is still working on his Final Solution.
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Can't employed people go as well?
As a contract-worker, I'd seriously consider getting myself laid-off for a month if it meant I could go raft-building and mountain-climbing.
At just a tad over half a million quid, a piece of cake for the zero contracted minimum wage worker with 'connections' to a very secretive mortgage broker who dishes out the most amazing 'mortgages'.
Why not. Older people still like to do things.
Exactly.
I'm not annoyed. I'm talking from a recent experience where I had to go on a job hunting course, sign on etc.
Thankfully, I now have a job.
they're not going to do anything thats H&S risky so anything sharper than a dull butter knife won't be used so it'll end up 3 weeks of crappy team building exercises that probably have to be done indoors incase someone slips and sues the site
Teach them to mountain climb or something. Doesn't prince Charles do something similar.
Yeah. How would being forced into something be any different to how things are now? They made me feel the opposite - I'd want to do it even less, and would rather sign up to something on my own accord.
Stop evading difficult questions Paul, answer them. You used the same tactics of evading questions you couldn't answer in your other thread the other day.
Many long term unemployed have children, and many are single parents. Who arranges and pays for childcare while these thousands of parents are away for a week or two?.
How, while on this course, do they meet their mandatory job search obligations?. If an unemployed person today takes a week away from home they lose their JSA, because if they are on a holiday they are deemed to be unable to jobsearch properly.
JSA claimants only account for a tiny percentage of all benefit claimants, so does your scheme only affect them or the 97% of claimants who claim other benefits?.
Serious questions.
Personally I'd quite happily have a week away on such a course, but what's the point if it proves to be hugely expensive for the taxpayer and does nothing to help secure employment?.
This is still the interim scheme.
IDS is still working on his Final Solution.
I think it's lost on most of this audience, sadly.
Wouldnt that make them unavailable for work, therefore they would be sanctioned?