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.

A chilly spring morning in 2010 and in A4e’s Edinburgh office, staff employed by Emma Harrison — David Cameron’s fallen ‘back to work’ tsar — were in the midst of a full-blown panic. The cause of the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A4e, the company that faced fraud allegations in relation to its government welfare-to-work contracts, has been banned from calling itself a social purpose company. The restriction is to ensure ...

The Sunday interview: A4e chief Andrew Dutton Andrew Dutton sits in a drab, small office at A4e’s central London headquarters – known locally as the “grey towers” – and recalls one by one the events ...

The Government's controversial welfare-to-work provider A4e knew of potential fraud and failures by management to control it for three years, a leaked document suggests. A confidential 2009 internal ...

Welfare-to-work firm A4e knew of widespread potential fraud and systematic failures by management to control it, a leaked document suggests. BBC Newsnight has obtained the results of a confidential ...

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 ...