[Tom4784]

The job placements scheme will be useless as it only serves for free labour for companies with no incentive for them to take on jobseekers beyond their placement and plus jobseekers will inevitably do more work then they are getting paid for on universal credit.

You've also got the issue that such schemes always impede jobseeking efforts as it makes jobseekers less flexible in when they can interview and such and it gives them less time to actually job search.

Schemes like these exist only to make employment stats look better as you know they'll count people on these placements as being in work.