UK A radical change in the structuring of private sector contracts for welfare-to-work programmes was outlined on Tuesday by Peter Hain, the work and pensions secretary, in a move that trade unions fear will presage a much bigger role for the private sector in getting people off benefit and into work.
Mr Hain published the “interim findings” of a new commissioning strategy that will see myriad existing contracts and sub-contracts with the private and voluntary sector transformed into fewer, longer and larger “prime contracts”.
