The Guardian has a slightly strange write-up of a piece of research around the government’s flagship Work Programme, which is aimed at getting long-term unemployed people back into work (although the initial statistics imply it is less than efficient at doing so). The programme is structured in a “black box” manner; providers are entitled to, within reason, offer whichever schemes they think will work best to participants, and are paid by result.
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