A4E WORK contractor - Police investigating

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Last week we ran an article on Work contractor A4E and how the firm's boss raked in £8.6 million in share dividends.





This week the firm is under investigation by the Police. Boss Emma Harrison was David Cameron's 'family champion' ; - he used her as a model example. Here's how the tabloids are reporting it...

"'Back to work' tsar at centre of fraud probe over claims 'funding went on jobs lasting just a day'"

The company run by David Cameron’s ‘Back to Work Tsar’ Emma Harrison is at the centre of a fraud investigation.
The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed last night that a probe into A4e – headed by Mrs Harrison – was under way.
A source at the company told The Mail on Sunday that on Friday afternoon, officers from Thames Valley Police visited the company’s offices in Slough, Berkshire.

The source said they stayed for up to four hours and demanded staff hand over documents and computer files dating back two years. He confirmed: ‘Police were in the office on Friday going back over contracts.’

The source added that police had indicated they planned to make further visits to other A4e offices throughout the country.
It is also the source’s understanding that the police were investigating claims that the company had put some people in jobs for just one day, but claimed the funding nonetheless.
It is believed that Work and Pensions Minister Chris Grayling was last night made aware of the investigation into A4e.
The company is majority-owned by Mrs Harrison, who has made millions from running her work programmes under both Labour and the Conservatives.

Last week it was revealed that she had been paid an £8.6 million dividend after A4e’s turnover rose to £234 million.

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103252/Back-work-tsar-centre-fraud-probe-claims-funding-went-jobs-lasting-just-day.html#ixzz1mq1zU1dv

Last week's article on Emma Harrison's £8.6 million state handout.
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Mylegal was looking at Emma Harrison last September and August
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A4E didn't escape a mention in the Welfare Reform Car Crash article (see posts 15 and 16 and WORK contracts 8, 12 - 14 & 17)

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More on A4E and calls for Work contracts to be suspended with parliamentary questions being tabled today....


'Suspend back to work tsar': MPs demand Cameron acts after police launch fraud inquiry over job placements

Emma Harrison's firm A4e is accused of receiving fees from the taxpayer after finding people jobs lasting just 24 hours

The company has won state contracts worth millions over the last 20 years

She awarded herself £8.6million of mainly taxpayers' cash this month

"David Cameron is facing demands to suspend his 'back to work' tsar Emma Harrison after police launched a fraud inquiry.
A senior MP will today table a parliamentary question asking if he will block the A4e company's contracts. Mrs Harrison, appointed to help problem families find jobs, caused uproar this month when it was revealed she had paid herself £8.6million of mainly taxpayers' cash. On Friday, detectives visited her company A4e's offices amid claims that it took funding for putting some clients back to work for only a day.

Whitehall sources say ministers are demanding urgent reassurance there is no 'systematic fraud' designed to rip off the taxpayer. Margaret Hodge, chairman of the influential Public Accounts Committee, went further. She said she would be asking the Department of Work and Pensions 'whether, given the allegations of fraud, they will be suspending their contracts with A4e until this matter is resolved'. She added: 'I think the Government should certainly consider suspending them. It is of great concern that any such investigation is necessary.'
A4e – formerly called Action For Employment – was set up to retrain redundant Sheffield steelworkers and Mrs Harrison built it into an operation spanning 11 countries. On Friday police visited the company's offices in Slough, Berkshire."


Read more on the story: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103522/Suspend-work-tsar-MPs-demand-action-fraud-probe-job-placement-scheme.html#ixzz1muBZOmp3

David Cameron had hailed her an 'inspiration' to his employment campaign
But Labour MPs claim A4e's record on finding people jobs is 'abysmal'


Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103522/Suspend-work-tsar-MPs-demand-action-fraud-probe-job-placement-scheme.html#ixzz1muAj93VB