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And you dont think this organisation would put any spin on the figures? A public policy blog from the TUC, Trades Union Congress. As many people say on here time again, figures are interpreted differently according to who is doing the looking. My point was that the full picture hasn't emerged and asking just 89 young people a question about whether the FJF was beneficial isn't representative and cant be conclusive in saying that the FJF was good value for money for the taxpayer. They may have developed skills and may have more of a chance of getting a job now than before, but bums on seats in jobs or tax to the treasury is how a scheme is measured as successful and keeping those young people in employment long term is another matter altogether.

Its on the same weekend every year and they hardly need to advertise it with the numbers who turn up already!

The Crosspool Tavern. I used to work there!

I cant possibly eat my salmon and cucumber sandwiches without them.Cucumber that is!

http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=20&channelId=132&programmeName=The%20Fairy%20Jobmother&startTime=07/06/2011%2021:00&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp&jspError=/jsp/error.jsp She is on tonight.

When you read a report like this http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/mar/24/smoking-asthma-children-health I cant see that the colour of a packet of cigarettes will change anything.

oh my goodness. Did they really say that?? You really need to get in touch with the school governors as from what you say in your post it appears they have little or no understanding of how to support your child. Have you spoken to the SENCO?

Wouldnt dream of buying it. The only Sheffield paper I would buy is The Telegraph.

Did anyone see the fairy Jobsmother on Good Morning, ITV today. She certainly does tell it like it is..

More information here. An update from Twitter.. http://www.smartroutes.co.uk/ecclesallroad/digibrief.html

And that estate is very nice. Very near to open countryside.

I think you should read your own link.. How can this be evidence. The actual analysis ( quantative) is reporting back early 2012 as it says in the report Taken from the report.. This study comprised in-depth qualitative telephone interviews with 89 FJF participants, who according to DWP records had recently completed their six month post at the time of the interview. As this study used qualitative techniques, it provides an in-depth view of the experiences of participants interviewed but is not designed to be representative of all FJF participants. However, participants were purposively sampled to ensure representation from a range of age groups and disadvantaged sub-groups in order to capture a spectrum of views across a wide range of different customers. They only sampled 89 participants. Hardly representative really. Maybe you should get the specifics as to how many of those were actually in paid employment as a result of the scheme and how much taxpayers money was used to fund it.

Predicting what a report will say before the evidence starts to come in is hardly conclusive. I have experience of actually working on the future jobs fund myself getting young people in to jobs and of course to an extent it did do that but questions are raised about at the end of the agreed period whether they end up in real paid jobs that havent been created to help the statistics. Many employers will take on a young person if they are subsidised to do so but when that subsidy stops the question is whether the market can afford to pay them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1394595/Has-equality-destroyed-sex-life-A-controversial-book-claims-feminism-rise-new-men-killed-womens-libidos-.html Has the rise of women's equality affected they way you think about your partner? Maybe they were wrong after all when they said we can have it all. As further evidence for their theory, Ogas and Gaddam cite the continuing popularity of erotic fiction. Certainly, if you were to judge by the still booming sales of Mills & Boon novels you would find it difficult to disagree. Three million books a year are sold in Britain alone by these purveyors of not-too-naughty erotica. For best-selling novelist Jilly Cooper, this is no surprise. ‘Men are so beaten into submission these days. They’re so weak and worried and confused that one simply has to reach into romance novels to find a proper hero,’ she says. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1394595/Has-equality-destroyed-sex-life-A-controversial-book-claims-feminism-rise-new-men-killed-womens-libidos-.html#ixzz1OWemnAP0 Didnt realise that so many of us read Mills and Boon.

That couldn't be further from the truth.How can any political party be pleased about this. I for one am frustrated at the progress ( or lack of it) that has been made when there has been so many so called back to work schemes over the years. I know that the Lib Dems are certainly unhappy about the position we find ourselves in.It is a huge issue to tackle and one that is of course a political hot potato.

But the question that needs to be asked is why are there so many people who dont think they are either. 1 Able to work 2.Capable of putting in the effort to get a job. Obviously there will always be people who genuinely are unable to work due to either mental illness or disability, but there are many people who could probably work if they had the right support and certainly many who can work but choose not to.

Maybe it wasn't anything to do with DWP.Maybe the ONS found out by getting their information another way.Whichever way they found out the fact remains that they managed to find people who are not working from households who havent worked for a period that Labour were in power. Its funny because at my age I look back a lot at times when people just left school( the very clever ones went to Uni!), got a job and carried on in that job until something happened, like for instance a woman left to have a baby,mainly the men just carried on. Some of the men that I worked with when I left school are still actually in that same job! I started work at the age of 16. Nowadays it seems that there are 3 routes that people go down. 1. University/College 2. Maybe being briefly unemployed then getting a job (say) starting at the bottom and working up 3. Unemployed and resigned to the fact. A lot of these choices are down to attitudes that people have. Of course for some the choice is working at minimum wage and learning a skill and moving up eventually in to something better, despite the fact that they would get equally the same on benefits.For others its not worth getting out of bed for. Depends what you want really, but the system isnt tough enough in my opinion.

Certainly can find better things to spend my money on.

Not sure what you mean. The report was done by the Office for National Statistics. There is no spin involved.http://www.ons.gov.uk/about/our-statistics/the-value-of-statistics-to-society/index.html It was reported by the New Statesman, one of the left of Centre newspapers.

I always wonder why women see themselves as complete when they are in a relationship and think that somehow they are inadequate if they arent. Confidence is about self belief. Thats all it is really,you know the famous quote that Henry Ford said.. "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." -- Henry Ford Being by yourself enables you to take stock of yourself and, having to do everything for yourself rather than relying on a partner to do it for you gives great self confidence. There are many things that you think you cant do ,but being pushed in to doing something due to the fact that there is only you to do it means that eventually you get to realise that the one true dependable person is yourself. You are special so look after yourself..

Tried to copy this from the report.. As can be seen in Table 4 the majority of households where no one has ever worked were one person households followed by lone-parent households (around 39 per cent and 35 per cent of households where no one has ever worked, respectively, increasing to 40 and 44 per cent respectively when student households are excluded). Only 29,000 of the 352,000 households where no one has ever worked were couple households (around 8.2 per cent). Table 4 Number of households 1,2 where no one has ever worked: by household type, 2010 3 United Kingdom Thousands Households never worked Excluding student households 4 Total households where no one has ever worked 352 269 One-person households 138 107 Couple households 29 22 Lone-parent households 124 119 Other households 5 61 22 1 Households including at least one person aged 16 to 64. 2 A household is defined as having never worked if all members aged 16 years and over are currently not in employment and state that they have never had paid work (apart from casual or holiday work, or the job that they are waiting to begin) 3 Data are Q2 and are not seasonally adjusted. 4 Student households are households where all adults are aged 16 to 24 and in education. Excludes households where all members are in education but some members are aged 25 years and over. 5 Other household types include households that contain more than one family unit. Source: Labour Force Survey, Office for National Statistics (ONS, 2011c) In Q2 2010 around 552,000 adults were living in households where no one had ever worked, with a third of these in student households not wanting to work because of their studies. Of the remaining 374,000 adults:  68 per cent were not seeking a job and would not like to work  16 per cent were not seeking a job but would like to work  13 per cent were unemployed, therefore looking for and available to work There are also around a quarter of a million children under 16 years old, living in households where none of the adults has ever worked (265,000 in all households that have never worked and 258,000 in non-student households) (ONS, 2011c). S

What I cant understand, so maybe someone can explain it, is if these 68 per cent are on job seekers, ( or maybe they arent, we dont know) , how can they be getting JSA if they say they are not seeking a job and would not like to work. The other scenario is that they are on ESA, Employment Support Allowance which means they are incapacitated in some way, but even those people have to have a review every year as I understand it. So shouldnt we be questioning the system that is run by the DWP. Ie how come these people who own up to not wanting a job are allowed to be paid benefits that span for years and years..

Of course it is not. One cant even use the usual argument that people use an an excuse that it was written by or for a right wing newspaper.

But if that wasn't bad enough, the ONS found that 68 per cent of those eligible for full-time employment (i.e. not students) were "not seeking a job and would not like to work". We can argue about the extent to which a "dependency culture" exists in the UK but it's hard not to see that statistic as evidence of one. Of the remaining 32 per cent, 16 per cent were not seeking a job but "would like to work", and 13 per cent were "looking for and available to work". This was the most depressing bit.

Depressing statistics for Labour. Wonder why if they were available in January it has taken till now to get to know about them? http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/06/households-work-labour-number