Seetec

Seetec
Industry welfare-to-work
Founded 1984

Seetec is a welfare-to-work company that provides government employment programmes and training programmes in the United Kingdom.[1] It is one of several companies involved in the Work Programme, a government workfare scheme which aims to allow the long-term unemployed to re-enter the labour market. Seetec was founded in 1984.[2] It describes itself as "one of the UK’s largest and most experienced providers of Government funded employment and skills training programmes".[3]

Criticism

The anti-workfare organisation Refuted have collected data on the number of calls companies participating in the Work Programme have made to Provider Direct using Freedom of Information legislation. Provider Direct is a telephone help service used when it is believed that a claimant has failed to participate in a mandated activity meaning that a referral for a potential sanction can be made. Refuted criticise Seetec on the basis that referrals for potential benefit sanctions are significantly higher under Seetec compared to other welfare-to-work companies participating in the Work Programme.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.seetec.co.uk/home/about_seetec.aspx
  2. ↑ http://www.seetec.co.uk/about/about-us
  3. ↑ http://www.seetec.co.uk/about/about-us
  4. ↑ http://refuted.org.uk/2014/01/02/sanctionshappy/

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