Graham Stuart MP is seeking a meeting with the Secretary of State, Work and Pensions, over fears community groups could be squeezed out by large companies given contracts to provide job seeking and care services.
Following a meeting with members of the SHoRes Centre, in Withernsea, the Beverley and Holderness MP agreed to ask for a meeting with Iain Duncan Smith and invite a small group of staff along. Graham said: “The team at the SHoRes Centre have done a fabulous job in recent years helping as many people as possible get back into work and with their care needs. However, they are now fearful that, as Government is forced to make the changes to public spending needed to get the country back on a sure footing after 13 years of Labour mismanagement, they will be overlooked and possibly squeezed out.”
He said staff feared public sector contracts would be given to large scale organisations across the country, ignoring the good work done by small community groups.
Graham added: “It is only right there should be a major shake-up of the benefit system, but at the same time it is only right highly successful local employment support services are not pushed out in the changeover.”
