A4e News and comment on A4e from the Guardian
Welfare-to-work company employees to be sentenced for fraudulent claims Action 4 Employment (A4e) workers made up files, forged signatures and falsely claimed they had helped people find jobs, costing taxpayers £300,000
Christmas request: who sold Britain? Letters: What I’d like for Christmas is a Guardian booklet identifying everything that used to be a public service or utility that is now a nice little earner for some private company
Is it too late to complete fundamental reforms of Whitehall procurement? Colin Cram
A4e ends £17m prisoner education contract citing budget constraints
Don't forget the hidden victims in the government outsourcing scandal Jane Dudman Jane Dudman: While Margaret Hodge admonishes government contractors, we shouldn't tar all their employees with the same brush
Government outsourcing gets suppliers it deserves, says review official After scandals at G4S, Serco and A4E, senior Cabinet Office official says government should take some blame for problems
Nine A4e employees charged with fraud Nine who worked for Emma Harrison's training company alleged to have forged documentation involved in reward payments
Welfare-to-work firms to see cut in referrals for poor performance Firms such as A4e, Avanta and Seetec tasked with placing jobseekers in work will get fewer referrals, minister says
A4e found guilty of racial discrimination Training company used by government dismissed employee on basis of colour, according to employment tribunal
Guardian diary
Diary: A blueprint for success at A4e. You gotta have friends who've got friends Hugh Muir Hugh Muir: What now without the firm's best link to the Tories?
Three more arrests over alleged fraud at A4e
This obsession with outsourcing public services has created a shadow state Zoe Williams
How to follow the public money in a privatised NHS Zoe Williams Zoe Williams: Without basic financial transparency from public service contractors we can say goodbye to democratic accountability
Emma Harrison nets £1.375m for her role in struggling jobseeker business David Cameron's ex-adviser quit helm of A4e after outrage at her massive bonus pay dividends
Debate of the day
Is the government's welfare-to-work programme working? Natalie Hanman
'There probably isn't enough money to tackle long-term unemployment'
I was 'bullied' out of A4e, claims Emma Harrison Former adviser to David Cameron says she was 'useful face for the politics people to have a go at'
Welfare-to-work schemes worth £1bn remain open to fraud, say MPs Auditing of firms using public money to place long-term unemployed in work criticised as 'vague and hazy'
A4e prison contracts delayed by anti-fraud checks Extra audit of controversial service provider puts back start of multimillion-pound prison education contracts by three months
Social enterprise blog
A4e is an organisation with a social purpose, but we need to define the term The third sector is now the blurred sector because we aren't thinking clearly enough about roles, argues Jonty Olliff-Cooper
