The government's flagship policy to revolutionise welfare by paying private companies to find jobs for the unemployed was in crisis last night as firms said there were too many people out of work - and too few vacancies - to make it viable....Under the current contracts on offer, worth a total of more than £1bn over five years, firms and voluntary sector organisations chosen in a tendering process would be paid 20% "up front" as a service fee and the remaining 80% when they placed people in work. Now many are demanding the service fee element be raised to 50%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/feb/08/labour-welfare-jobs-plan
You can't make money on putting people back to work when that's impossible so it's not a surprise that nobody wants to try.