Tory-led Government’s back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, is clearly failing

Alarming figures out this week show that the Tory-led Government’s back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, is clearly failing. In the two years since the Work Programme was launched, nearly 900,000 people on the programme haven’t even started a job. That means three quarters of the unemployed people on the scheme haven’t even started a job, and half of young people have still to get a single