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- Focus on the benefits system
Workshop presentation from 2008 Social Firms UK annual conference. workshop c focus on the benefits system.pdf ...
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- Social Firms UK’s response to DWP consultation “No one written off – reforming welfare to reward responsibility” (October 2008)
This consultation set out the Government’s plans increase the numbers of people getting work. By 2013, people will either be on Job Seekers Allowance (JSA), or the Employment Support Allowance (ESA). Em ...
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- Response to new developments in government support for skills training and benefits (3 December 07)
The government’s latest policy announcement, “Opportunity, Employment And Progression: Making Skills Work” heralds a new range of steps aimed at enabling people to get into work and then to ...
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- Response to government consultation paper, 'In Work Better Off' (October 2007)
The government recently brought out a consultation paper called 'In Work Better Off'. The paper sets out that the Government’s aim is to reduce the number of people on Incapacity Benefit by 1million, en ...
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- Social Firms UK's & Social Firms Scotland's responses to the Welfare Reform Green Paper (April 2006)
In April 2006, Social Firms UK and Social Firms Scotland sent responses to the Welfare Reform Green Paper to the Department of Work & Pensions. The paper, entitled 'A new deal for welfare: empowering peop ...
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- Response by Social Firms UK to the DWP's Welfare Reform seminar (March 2007)
This document shows the response by Sally Reynolds of Social Firms UK to the high profile seminar on Welfare Reform held in London on 26 March 2007. ...
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- Social Firms UK's response to DWP's "No one written off" Welfare To Work reform consultation (20 October 2008)
In its consultation on Welfare to Work Reform the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) proposes that, apart from severely disabled people, or those with full-time caring responsibilities, the government exp ...
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- Social Firms UK’s position the making receipt of Invalidity Benefit or Employment Support allowance “conditional” on active job seeking. (Dec 2008)
In July 2008 the Government commissioned Prof Paul Gregg to review what role sanctions can and should play in motivating people to take advantage of back-to-work support. In its position paper on sancti ...
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- Social Firms UK's response to the call for evidence for the Employment Strategy for people with learning difficulties (March 2009)
In summary, Social Firms UK called for the Employment Strategy to include action: that makes work accessible. Simplify forms and offer support with job applications. Offer training that suits people&rs ...
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