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 ...

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 ...

Catherine Verwaerde had been unemployed for 13 months when she was referred to A4e. A supporter of the Government's drive to get people back into work, she hoped they would help her to find a job.

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 ...

Police have launched a second fraud inquiry involving state contracts run by David Cameron’s millionaire ‘back-to-work’ tsar Emma Harrison. Mrs Harrison’s beleaguered firm A4e volunteered details of ...

The Government has terminated a contract with welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that continuing would be “too great a risk”. Employment minister Chris Grayling said the company's Mandatory Work ...

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 ...

A4e is a contractor for the government's welfare-to-work schemes An investigation into an allegation of attempted fraud against welfare to work company A4e has been launched by the Department for Work ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emma Harrison has stepped down as chairman of A4e, capping a week of growing pressure on the embattled welfare ...

Ministers have hit back in a row over claims there was "systemic fraud" at welfare-to-work company A4e. Evidence to a government committee from the company's former head of audit was leaked to a ...