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11. If you read the threads properly

You'll see that Goverment of both Coalition and Labour varieties get plenty of criticism on those threads (they are the ones who give A4E the contracts after all), and Workfare is heavily criticized on Sheffield Forum a lot. The problem for a lot of the posters on Sheffield Forum is that all 3 main parties are cosy with A4E so they can't make cheap partisan points about their political opponents so easily.

However, A4E is still seen as being something of a "Sheffield" organization, and a lot of people round these parts have had very bad experiences with them, as can be seen on those threads. People round here have had issues with A4E well before the media took an interest.

It might be interesting to see if other organizations in the same field have the same range of problems with their service as A4E do.

And then there's the whole matter of whether or not it would be better for all concerned if the government funded job centres to do their job properly and not just give people the "wham bam thank you mam" treatment when they go in to sign on.

Instead we have the whole dogma about paying the private sector to do something more expensively then it would be done by keeping such services "in house".