Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Declan appeals A4E

Declan has put in an appeal for an Appeal Tribunal against Action for Employment (A4E) - a private sector company that has £300 million of Government training contracts and controls 25% of the long-term unemployment budget for the Department for Work and Pensions. Basically, he has now received an electronic copy of a letter that has yet to arrive in the post but, within two paragraphs, this letter is both breaking the law and making serious and unfounded allegations against Declan (click to enlarge). Who has the credibility problem?



It seems that A4E are like the police and can't investigate themselves (see blog of 11 September City of London Police in the spotlight). In fact, they are quite dangerous: request a decision maker on a proposed jobseeker's agreement in pursuance of Section 9(6) of the Jobseeker's Act 1995 and you are lucky if you don't find yourself in a Magistrates Court for a breach of the peace! And all of this under the nose of the A4E chairman and owner, Emma Harrison CBE, and the manager of our jobcentre, Highgate Jobcentre Plus (see blog of 9 September Highgate Jobcentre Plus doesn't disappoint).

A4E now either re-investigate Declan's case for unfair treatment or he will make sure it sees an Appeal Tribunal. He is also willing to file this case in court down the line. This is an extract from his appeal, which was dispatched by registered post this morning (click to enlarge). The letter he refers to in this extract to the manager of Highgate Jobcentre Plus is published in the blog of 28 August Perhaps the Department for Work and Pensions will understand YouTube videos.



As I said in the previous blog, Declan has repeatedly asked Broadway Homelessness and Support, a premier homelessness organisation in London, to assist me with requesting my birth certificate from Madrid so that I can be reissued an Irish passport - on 18 June 2008 we were robbed of all our money and documents in the Sisters of Mercy's Dellow Centre (see blog of 4 September Sisters of Mercy revisited - our first YouTube video). My A4E employment officer has now agreed to contact Broadway. To further up the ante, I have copied this letter to just about everyone au fait with the robbery (the blog of 4 September just mentioned carries a letter from the Papal Nuncio):