A chilly spring morning in 2010 and in A4e’s Edinburgh office, staff employed by Emma Harrison — David Cameron’s fallen ‘back to work’ tsar — were in the midst of a full-blown panic. The cause of the ...

The Government has terminated a contract with welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that continuing would be 'too great a risk'. However, the company still has 11 contracts with the Government, ...

The scandal surrounding the welfare-to-work firm A4e (Action for Employment) has again exposed how large swathes of public funds have been handed over to private corporations, under both Labour and ...

A4e received £46m from the taxpayer in the first year of the government’s flagship Work Programme – despite failing to meet minimum targets for getting the long-term unemployed into work. The Work ...

For A4e, it seems things go from bad to worse. Yesterday I reported it had failed to make the cut for the £1bn Department for Work and Pensions health assessment contract framework. It has now emerged ...

Catherine Verwaerde had been unemployed for 13 months when she was referred to A4e. A supporter of the Government's drive to get people back into work, she hoped they would help her to find a job.

The welfare-to-work company A4e was forced to withdraw from part of a £900,000 project to place vulnerable people into work after an employee forged signatures on official forms. A4e was helping to ...

The Government has terminated a contract with welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that continuing would be “too great a risk”. Employment minister Chris Grayling said the company's Mandatory Work ...