Sentences with phrase «government work programme»

The chairman of a committee that oversees the government's spending watchdog has said she was «angry» that a government work programme was failing to deliver good enough results.

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Included in the price is a state - sponsored concierge programme, entitling members to VIP access to government agencies dealing with immigration, driving licences, and work permits, as well as complimentary return airport transfers, an annual health check up at a private hospital, and 24 spa treatments and golfing trips a year.

Supporting women affected by violence The Austrian Federal Government committed to addressing complex social policy issues in their 2013 - 18 work programmes.

IOM is working with partners, including the Government of Libya, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the African Union, the European Union, and countries of origin, to forge an agreement to implement a programme to empty those detention centres.

The Catholic Church in England and Wales said the Office for Migration Policy will prioritise its work with the UK Government and other partners to create welcoming environments and provide well - resourced community sponsorship programmes in parishes.

This work provides guidance to governments, local authorities, businesses and others on designing effective food waste prevention programmes.

The guide is written for programme managers in governments and their partners, primarily those working in maternal and child health and nutrition.

Parents, professionals and governments need to value and pursue more early intervention programmes, working together to form happier and healthier foundations for children.

Today's white paper also includes announcements relating to the government's work programme, which will seek to help Britain's long - term unemployed get into work again from next summer.

In its submission to the government's open public services white paper, the union identifies major problems with Mr Duncan Smith's work programme, where 33 of the 34 contracts went to large private sector providers.

Andrew Greenway is a former deputy director of data analysis and horizon scanning at the Government Office for Science and has also been a programme manager working on digital projects for the Cabinet Office.

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, subcomponents, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;

The government scheme to get the unemployed back to work by working without pay has suffered a further setback as Poundland became the latest firm to demand that ministers rethink the programme.

According to the statement, «The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has directed the Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and Medical Director (MDs) of Federal Government Tertiary Health Institutions to fill the vacancies created by Resident Doctors who have abandoned their training programme by refusing to report for work.

Len McCluskey, leader of the UK's biggest union, Unite, will use his speech at the historic Durham Miners» Gala today (Saturday) to call upon Labour to renew its connection to working people by delivering a genuine alternative to the government's ruinous austerity programme.

Commenting ahead of tomorrow's TUC march in London against the Government's cuts and austerity programme, Christine Blower General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This march will send a clear message to Government that their programme of austerity measures is not working.

Speaking about the survey Stephen Ratcliffe, Director UKCG, said «Providing certainty over the pipeline of forward public sector programmes and working with the industry to get shovel ready projects underway, would be the most helpful thing government could do in the wake of these results.

[24] A key pillar of Blunkett's work as Education Secretary was the introduction of Sure Start, a government programme which provides services for pre-school children and their families.

''... there was no deliberate and substantive work on immigration issues undertaken in opposition — no attempt to develop a coherent strategic position that might serve as a basis for a programme for government.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Mr Livingstone, who lost to Tory candidate Boris Johnson last week in the race to become London Mayor, said working - class people had become «disillusioned» at the last Labour government's failure to create «good jobs».

Commending the Board, Management and Staff of Payswitch for the «tremendous work done», the Vice President assured that the government of President Nana Akufo - Addo is committed to supporting start - ups through policies and programmes designed to ensure their success.

This shows that the government's economic diversification programme is working.»

The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions.

The government pledged to plough ahead with its flagship work programme today, despite evidence showing it had a success rate of just 3.53 %.

Providers of government «work programmes» will be paid by results, but in a recession, where the economy is stagnant, the public sector is shedding staff and 20 % of young people are unemployed, it's hard to see where the millions of extra jobs that will be needed to deliver these «results» are going to come from.

«In addition, the government has torn up Labour's Total Place programme, which was bringing together all of the local agencies needed to provide services to families, and saved money, setting this work back.

«NEA will work with its members and partners across the country in coming weeks to ensure the voices of the fuel poor are heard through the consultation period on the Government's Fuel Poverty Strategy and to ensure the policies and programmes that underpin it are properly resourced and are deliverable.

A man with terminal brain cancer is among those being told they are «fit for work» under the government's work capability assessment programme, new research has discovered.

Contractual gagging orders are being imposed on charities engaged in the government's flagship work programme initiative, the Independence Panel's report out today warns.

«SERAP fears that the overbearing bill would inhibit and obstruct the ability of Nigerians to work collectively through local and international organizations on any human rights, transparency and accountability research or advocacy that may be deemed contrary to «the national interest» of Nigeria, or not «consistent with the programmes of government.»

And on the day that TfL, the Mayor of London and Network Rail launched their consultation on the route of Crossrail 2, CECA also called for an «early commitment» from the government to start work on it once the existing Tube upgrade programme is complete.

Government has said it will put in place an alternative livelihood programme for illegal miners who are expected to be out of work soon, following moves to end their activities.

Although the programme has been hit with some challenges, the President has said his government will work hard to resolve them and sustain it.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said the delay to the government's Personal Independence Payment programme was the «latest example of chaos» in the Department for Work and Pensiwork and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said the delay to the government's Personal Independence Payment programme was the «latest example of chaos» in the Department for Work and PensiWork and Pensions.

Participants at the meeting renewed their commitments to work with federal government facilities in their states to enhance disease surveillance and disease response programmes.

The prime minister later stood up to defend the government's programme for the next 12 months, saying: «This is a government that is taking the tough decisions to help families who work hard and do the right thing, acting for the long term, governing in the national interest.

The government's work programme, to replace the current pathways scheme, will see private and voluntary organisations bid to get the unemployed back into work.

The government's spending watchdog cited the specific example of a # 20 million counter-narcotics programme in Iraq that was brought down by local officials grossly over-billing the project's number of work days.

The government's plan is simple: those who need extra support to find work can use something called the work programme and people facing higher barriers to employment can volunteer for the more specialised work choice programme.

Exacerbating this was a failure to assess which treatment programmes work, despite the government spending more than # 330 million treating offenders in England and Wales.

Addressing the TUC Congress during the debate on Pensions, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said this: «No one can be in any doubt that ordinary working people and families are under a sustained assault as a result of the ideologically - driven programme of the coalition government and their failed economic policy.

He also said that it was his responsibility to ensure that everybody worked toward the development of the state while supporting the programmes of the APC - led Federal Government.

Some of the biggest firms running the government's welfare - to - work scheme have been penalised for poor performance after it was revealed almost eight out of 10 unemployed people on the programme for two years had failed to get a proper job.

The Deputy Minister for Communications, Vincent Odotei Sowah, has assured that government is working tirelessly to ensure the successful implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, which is the biggest social intervention in many years.

Labour frontbenchers have been arguing that a Labour government could find the money by not cutting the 50p top rate of tax, or by implementing a work programme that would cut benefit spending.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The free SHS programme was implemented in September 2017, and has since experienced some setbacks in terms of infrastructure, a problem government says is working hard to address.

Tony Blair's creation of a fistful of new working peers comes as the government faces an unprecedented crisis over its legislative programme.

Labour said the government needed a new economic strategy and a «proper work programme» to tackle the welfare bill.