U.K. Government Restart Scheme Fails To Find Work For 93% Of People

The government's scheme to tackle long-term unemployment in the U.K. has failed miserably to find a jobs for 93% of the people enrolled.The Restart programme which cost tax payers £2.9Bn and was launched by Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak last year, in order to provide up to 12 months of support for people who are in long-term unemployed conditions to enable them to eventually return to work in the future.

An official statement has declared: "Unfortunately, despite spending over £2.5bn on Restart, the government's incompetent [Department for Work and Pensions] is better at farming out dud schemes to G4S and Serco than finding people work," It was further added that: "It's no surprise that these figures show that this government's failure is most pronounced in the north-west and Greater Manchester."

Over these two regions, a minimum of 1,370 out of 29,720 starters on the scheme have since left it and found permanent or consistent work – just nearly 5%.The restart scheme was initially created in December 2020, in order to help those who have been struggling to get back into work, directly from the gov.uk website the purpose is: "The Restart Scheme will give Universal Credit claimants who have been out of work for at least 9 months enhanced support to find jobs in their local area."

The Restart Scheme  is also struggling to find enough participants  in order for them the meet their prior predictions of case numbers – around the number of 225,000 people had started the scheme by the end of April, which is a huge 40% below the 375,000 who were initially expected to have joined the scheme by that point. They have since opened up the criteria and widened the restrictions so that more people are able to receive help and for them to meet their quotas.