Business Employment Services Training

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Business Employment Services Training
Company type	Conglomerate
Founded	1982
Headquarters	UK

Business Employment Services Training (BEST) is a welfare-to-work company in the United Kingdom. BEST is one of several companies that has a contract with the British government as part of the Work Programme - a workfare programme whereby unemployed individuals must work for their unemployment benefits.

They also perform tasks previously undertaken by Jobcentre/Jobcetre Plus offices. For example, they will have unemployed individuals attend regular appointments with an 'Advisor', who will check what they have been doing to find work.

For many years BEST had contracts under the New Deal scheme, which was the Labour Government's scheme replaced by the Conservative's Work Programme.

Takeover

In 2012 BEST was bought by Interserve and is now called Interserve Working Futures.

References

v t e Workfare in the United Kingdom
Workfare Programmes	Community Action Programme Mandatory Work Activity Sector Based Work Academies Work Programme Steps to Work Day One Support for Young People Trailblazer Help to Work Community work placements
Workfare Providers ('Primes')	A4e BEST Careers Development Group Employment and Skills Group G4S Ingeus Maximus Newcastle College PeoplePlus Prospects Services Reed Rehab Seetec Serco Working Links
Workfare Companies	List of British organisations who have participated in workfare programmes
Opposition	Boycott Workfare Solidarity Federation
Litigation	R (Reilly) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Department for Work and Pensions v Information Commissioner
Legislation	Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013

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