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Working Links (formally Working Links (Employment) Limited) is a public, private and voluntary company in the United Kingdom. Working Links works in some of the most deprived areas of the United Kingdom to address the challenges faced by disadvantaged people including long-term unemployed people, people with disabilities and people with convictions. Working Links have helped over 300,000 people into employment as of 2015. Working Links offers support to help people move from social exclusion to social inclusion. Working Links' public sector share is managed by the UK government’s Shareholder Executive on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The private sector shareholders are Manpower and Capgemini, and the voluntary sector share is owned by Mission Australia. Since 2006 their turnover has grown from £63 million to £123 million (2010), and they now employ over 2,700 people in the UK. It is one of the providers of the Work Programme initiative, that has helped more than (400,000 people ) into sustainable work in Britain. The company has been the subject of fraud allegations, though a the Department of Work and Pensions ruled that matters had been (handled properly at the time. ) A newspaper claimed it had the highest referral rate of Work Programme suppliers for sanctions against welfare recipients. More recently, Working Links has won the contracts to run three Community Rehabilitation Companies under the government’s (Transforming Rehabilitation ) reforms. ==History== Working Links was established in 2000 by the Shareholder Executive, Manpower, and Ernst & Young Consulting. Ernst & Young Consulting merged with Gemini Consulting, a branch of Cap Gemini, to form Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young was renamed Capgemini in 2004. The charity Mission Australia acquired a share of the company in 2006, rendering Working Links the first public, private and voluntary organisation in the UK. It has delivered contracts on behalf of government departments primarily to get people back into work, starting with Employment Zones and also including Pathways to Work, Progress to Work, New Deal, New Deal for Disabled People, Work Choice, ESF Family Support and Flexible New Deal. In 2011, Working Links won three contract package areas to deliver the Coalition government's new Work Programme. This made Working Links the third largest Work Programme provider in the UK. The three contracts acquired were the South West, Wales and Scotland and, as of May 2012, receives around £120 million a year from the DWP and various other governmental bodies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Working Links」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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