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.

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 ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Department for Work and Pensions UK news every morning. The Department for Work and Pensions has ordered an independent audiot of all of ...

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, ...

Scandal-plagued welfare-to-work provider, A4E has managed to get just 3.5 per cent of its jobseekers into long-term roles. Fewer than four out of 100 unemployed people who have gone through the firm ...

Emma Harrison is not quite a household name, but plenty of people will recognise her face. You may have seen her on a handful of TV shows: Channel 4's Make Me A Million, Benefit Busters and The Secret ...

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 troubled welfare-to-work company A4e suffered a fresh blow yesterday as the Government announced a review of all its contracts with the firm following a new fraud allegation. Police investigating ...