Responding to comments this morning by Peter Hain, Work & Pensions Secretary, suggesting the bigger role proposed for the private sector in delivering welfare-to-work schemes will be scaled back, John Cridland, Deputy Director-General of the CBI, said:
The government risks squandering an opportunity to build on the private sector's proven track record of helping the long-term unemployed into a job.
This adds to our real concern about the mixed messages from ministers on the future of public service reform.
Government risks squandering opportunity to get more people back to work - CBI
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