DWP Central Freedom of InformationAnnex ATeam
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Our Ref: FoI 241
16th February 2017 Annex A
Dear Frank Zola,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 19th January 2017. You asked:
For the past six months, please disclose the names of the employers hosting work placements&work experience* for benefit claimants participating in your Work Programme Contract Package Areas (CPA):
CPA1 East of England Ingeus and Seetec and then if within your fees for:
CPA2 East Midlands Peopleplus and Ingeus and then if within your fees for:
CPA3 West London Ingeus, Reed and Maximus and then if within your fees for:
CPA4 East London Peopleplus, Shaw Trust and Seetec and then if within your fees for:
CPA5 North East Peopleplus and Ingeus and then if within your fees for:
CPA6 Merseyside, Halton, Cumbria and Lancashire A4e and Ingeus and then if within your fees for:
CPA7 North, West and Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Warrington Peopleplus, G4S and Seetec
and then if within your fees for:
CPA8 Scotland Working Links & Ingeus and then if within your fees for:
CPA9 Thames Valley, Hampshire and Kent A4e and Maximus and then if within your fees for:
CPA10 Surrey, Sussex and Kent Peopleplus and G4S and then if within your fees for:
CPA11 Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset Prospects and Working Links and then if within your fees for:
CPA12 Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and West of England Rehab and Learndirect and then if within your fees for:
CPA13 Wales Working Links and Rehab and then if within your fees for:
CPA14 Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country Peopleplus, APM and Newcastle College and then if within your fees for:
CPA15 Coventry, Warwickshire and The Marches Interserve and Serco and then if within your fees for:
CPA16 West Yorkshire Interserve and Ingeus and then if within your fees for:
CPA17 South Yorkshire Peopleplus and Serco and then if within your fees for:
CPA18 North East Yorkshire and the Humber G4S and Maximus
Work Programme providers have the discretion to mandate participants to a work placement which must be of community benefit.
Work Programme participants may also undertake a similar work experience activity on a voluntary basis, however, on this basis the placement does not need to be of a community benefit and can be with any business where the individual can gain valuable experience in a structured work place environment, improve their CVs and marketability to potential employers.
We commissioned the information you seek from our providers. We have been looking into how we can comply with your request, and exploring whether this, or elements of it can be done within the appropriate limit for central Government, set by regulations at £600. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3½ working days in determining whether the Department holds the information, and locating, retrieving and extracting it.
Within the appropriate limit we are able to provide the information you seek about work placements and work experience for four Contract Package Areas. Please find the information. DWP does not hold the names of placement hosts; we are reliant on our providers for the accuracy of this information.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team ------
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Richmond upon Thames College British Heart Foundation Cancer Research UK Car Giant Chenai Hollistic Homecare City and Guilds International Ltd
Disability Information Advise Line
Helping Young People Excel Ltd Hockely Woods Homeless Action Resource Project Lloyds Banking Group Marks and Spencer Group P.L.C. Norwich Men's Shed Pringles Care Services Revolution Motorcycle Services Rochford District Council Scope Sense Shared Space Shaw Trust Southend United Football Club Stanmore College Sue Ryder The Felix Project The Isaiah Project The Royal Gunpowder Mills Transport For London Trust Links The Twist Partnership