Employment Minister Jim Knight's gaffe on Newsnight
On Newsnight tonight were three guests critical of training providers, and Jim Knight the Minister for Employment. When the unemployed young man seeking work in finance stated how let down he had been by the Job Centre and the trainer provider, Jim Knight asked the young man to speak to him afterwards with the name of the training provider! If he does not know the name of the training provider he shouldn't be doing the job! The government pays Ae4 £2,500 for every person it does not get into work. Rather than make the millionairess who owns Ae4 even richer, it was suggested that the money was given to small businesses to employ some of the unemployed. With the unemployed soon to be 3,000,000 the government needs to reasses its funding of paying for no results when it can pay instead for results!
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