Witnessing jobcentre practices alongside KUWG, blogger Kate Belgrave quotes a jobcentre 'customer' saying "I didn't want my first #JSA meeting to be in a group session with a G4S guard" and notes:
I’d be keen to hear back from anyone who has experience of this:
I spent a couple of hours today talking with someone who is a new JSA
claimant in North London. This man started his JSA claim a couple of
weeks ago. It’s the first claim he’s made. He filled in an application
form online and then was sent a text by the DWP some days later which
called him to a meeting at a London jobcentre in the first week of
August.
He assumed that the meeting would be one-to-one with a jobcentre
advisor – a meeting where an advisor goes through the application in
detail with the claimant and jobsearch requirements are set – but
instead found that the meeting was a group session with about ten other
new claimants and one G4S security guard who sat in the room the whole
time. This man was shocked to find that this first meeting wasn’t
private. He found the experience confusing and worrying, and wasn’t sure
what he agreed to in it.
He said that he was certainly concerned about asking questions and
sharing personal details and financial information in front of a group
of strangers. He wasn’t the only one. He said that “a couple of the
people there looked very nervous and anxious at the prospect of a group
meeting,” and that people were worried about confidentiality.
Continue reading on Kate's blog....
See Swheatie's blog post relating to social conditioning
Myelin and deep practice are good, but question CBT
