work programme contract unsustainable for housing associations

A landlord will not continue its contract for the government’s £5 billion flagship work programme saying that it is unsustainable for housing associations.

Accent Group has found it difficult to get people into sustained work through the programme because of the hard-to-place people referred to it by the main contractor Ingeus.

It has decided that the payment-by-results method used by the scheme is not financially viable for the group ...

The housing association has decided not to renew its two-year contract when it ends in six months’ time.

http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/care/landlord-to-end-work-programme-contract/6526271.article