We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK outsourcing news every morning. Nine employees of the welfare to work provider A4e have been charged with fraud, the Crown ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Department for Work and Pensions UK news every morning. The Department for Work and Pensions has ordered an independent audiot of all of ...

The scandal surrounding the welfare-to-work firm A4e (Action for Employment) has again exposed how large swathes of public funds have been handed over to private corporations, under both Labour and ...

If ever anyone was preceded by their reputation, it is Emma Harrison, founder of the back-to-work firm A4e. She was once regarded as one of our most successful businesswomen, but events took a ...

The Government has terminated a contract with welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that continuing would be 'too great a risk'. However, the company still has 11 contracts with the Government, ...

A4e received £46m from the taxpayer in the first year of the government’s flagship Work Programme – despite failing to meet minimum targets for getting the long-term unemployed into work. The Work ...

Emma Harrison is not quite a household name, but plenty of people will recognise her face. You may have seen her on a handful of TV shows: Channel 4's Make Me A Million, Benefit Busters and The Secret ...

The troubled welfare-to-work company A4e suffered a fresh blow yesterday as the Government announced a review of all its contracts with the firm following a new fraud allegation. Police investigating ...

David Cameron is facing fresh questions over the choice of Emma Harrison as his “families champion” as it emerged the Government knew about fraud allegations against her firm at the time. Rowena Mason ...

The welfare-to-work company A4e was forced to withdraw from part of a £900,000 project to place vulnerable people into work after an employee forged signatures on official forms. A4e was helping to ...