Post by nickd on Feb 10, 2012 14:24:50 GMT 1
Fury as families tsar gets £8.6 Million in one year!
Well you certainly can't say work doesn't pay! A4E boss Emma Harrison nets a cool £8.6 million a year in welfare to work contracts.
It's hardly any wonder fury has broken out over the news that Emma Harrison earned £8.6 million pounds a year in furthering her lucrative career in helping people back to work. The news comes in the wake of Harrison's poor performance in previous back to work contracts, it also casts doubt over the integrity of the current WORK programme and in David Cameron's judgement; - not that long ago he was bigging Emma up as his family champion.
Here's how the tabloids covered it...
Fury as Cameron's families tsar gets £8.6m in ONE YEAR (and the bulk of it comes from taxpayer)
MPs question why firm continued to win contracts despite 'abysmal' record
Last updated at 12:57 PM on 10th February 2012
"The woman appointed by David Cameron to get problem families back into work pocketed £8.6million last year – most of it from the taxpayer. Emma Harrison - who lives in a 20-bedroom 'posh commune' with 11 close friends and their families - paid herself the huge dividend from her firm A4e, which makes all its UK income from state contracts. The payout is up 300 per cent on the year before even though MPs say the company’s record on job schemes is ‘abysmal’.
Training fortune: Emma Harrison, who was appointed by David Cameron in 2010 to help get problem families back into work, paid herself an astonishing £8.6m in a dividend from her firm A4e last year Labour’s Margaret Hodge described the fees paid to A4e as ‘an outrage’. Another Labour MP said the dividend was a reward for failure. Mrs Harrison was made ‘families champion’ in December 2010 to advise on getting 120,000 troubled households in work."[/i]
Read more on the headline story: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099062/Fury-families-tsar-gets-8-6m-ONE-YEAR-bulk-comes-taxpayer.html#ixzz1lzATJymS
Mylegal view
This certainly isn't the first time I've questioned A4E's role in welfare to work contracting. It's long been a bone of contention by many, A4E contractors among others have been hauled over the coals by public account committees over their poor record in getting people back to work. I rather suspect Harrison will be made a scapegoat as government blames it on previous contracts and justifies further contracts by telling everyone they have started a new revolution of 'payment by result' remuneration.
Welfare to work contacts are at the core of the WORK programme and there's no way government will be axing them, not at any cost; - especially in the light of the escalating discontent over Lansley's NHS reforms. Government won't be too inclined to change course in any of this.
More to come on this I feel.
Well you certainly can't say work doesn't pay! A4E boss Emma Harrison nets a cool £8.6 million a year in welfare to work contracts.
It's hardly any wonder fury has broken out over the news that Emma Harrison earned £8.6 million pounds a year in furthering her lucrative career in helping people back to work. The news comes in the wake of Harrison's poor performance in previous back to work contracts, it also casts doubt over the integrity of the current WORK programme and in David Cameron's judgement; - not that long ago he was bigging Emma up as his family champion.
Here's how the tabloids covered it...
Fury as Cameron's families tsar gets £8.6m in ONE YEAR (and the bulk of it comes from taxpayer)
MPs question why firm continued to win contracts despite 'abysmal' record
Last updated at 12:57 PM on 10th February 2012
"The woman appointed by David Cameron to get problem families back into work pocketed £8.6million last year – most of it from the taxpayer. Emma Harrison - who lives in a 20-bedroom 'posh commune' with 11 close friends and their families - paid herself the huge dividend from her firm A4e, which makes all its UK income from state contracts. The payout is up 300 per cent on the year before even though MPs say the company’s record on job schemes is ‘abysmal’.
Training fortune: Emma Harrison, who was appointed by David Cameron in 2010 to help get problem families back into work, paid herself an astonishing £8.6m in a dividend from her firm A4e last year Labour’s Margaret Hodge described the fees paid to A4e as ‘an outrage’. Another Labour MP said the dividend was a reward for failure. Mrs Harrison was made ‘families champion’ in December 2010 to advise on getting 120,000 troubled households in work."[/i]
Read more on the headline story: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099062/Fury-families-tsar-gets-8-6m-ONE-YEAR-bulk-comes-taxpayer.html#ixzz1lzATJymS
Mylegal view
This certainly isn't the first time I've questioned A4E's role in welfare to work contracting. It's long been a bone of contention by many, A4E contractors among others have been hauled over the coals by public account committees over their poor record in getting people back to work. I rather suspect Harrison will be made a scapegoat as government blames it on previous contracts and justifies further contracts by telling everyone they have started a new revolution of 'payment by result' remuneration.
Welfare to work contacts are at the core of the WORK programme and there's no way government will be axing them, not at any cost; - especially in the light of the escalating discontent over Lansley's NHS reforms. Government won't be too inclined to change course in any of this.
More to come on this I feel.