I am sorry but this idea of a 12 months "probation" is simply wrong. After successful completion of the assessment I was offered a "job". The contract was with PARC and mentioned absolutely nothing about this mythical probation period nor did it say anything about a full time position after 1 year. It is simply a 3 year Flexi contact, exactly the same as people have been signing for the last 5 years. Obviously people on this Forum know much more than me but I can only talk about my own experience and I was 100% defiantly not offered a permeant position.
Obviously I turned it down! good luck to everyone else.