Surely it is not just non profit making organisations, what about Connexions ? This has been proven many times to be a complete sham and has been used by large national companies to get free and or very low paid workers with supposedly apprenticeships and job promises that never materialised and even many of the training courses used by Connexions were proven to be totally useless and a scam in everything but name.
The problems aren't really with the general framework of the benefit system, but with the entitlement criteria and the assessment and background checking of claimants. Because these have not been properly managed there is now a great strain on the system and the knee jerk reaction has been to pick on the easy targets to produce results and the easy targets within the system are those who are honest and have worked and contributed to the system. Because these people have a work ethic and are not au fait with their entitlements and rights they have become the easy target for harassment and bullying to force them out of the system. Yet, the obvious and blatantly fraudulent claimants are ignored because it would be an effort and take extra staff and time to deal with these miscreants.
Sections that do need looking at at the ways in which alcholics, junkies and ex-convicts are handled. Awarding alcholics and junkies DLA really does not help other than to provide them with extra money to feed their habits, when in fact the system should be providing de-tox placements and rehabilitation. And as an extreme example of warped ruling within the system, a criminal released from prison (therefore now ex-criminal) has priority in many homing schemes and when rehomed then becomes one of the few groups eligible for a Community Care Grant to furnish, carpet and decorate their new home and even claim for new clothing on the grant which is not repayable !!!
Why do I say this is warped ? Well that ex-criminal could have been in prison for defrauding the benefit system and then come out and then ligitimately claim a large non repayable sum from the system he has robbed !!!