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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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- Working Neighbourhood Fund - Social Firms UK's position statement i (January 2009)
Social Firms UK has fed into the interim "Tackling Worklessness" report that Claire Dove (Chair of the Social Enterprise Coalition) with Councillor Stephen Houghton (Leader of the Labour Group at Ba ...
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- Social Firms UK’s response to “Principles for representation: a framework for effective third sector participation in local strategic partnerships” (February 2008)
This discussion paper http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/principlesofrepre... sets out some principles that are aimed at assisting third sector bodies to come together to form networks ...
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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 response to the comprehensive spending review consultation on the future role of The Third Sector in social and economic regeneration (11 October 2006)
In this paper, Sally Reynolds, Chief Executive of Social Firms UK outlines the issues faced by the Social Firm sector and recommends solutions. ...
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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 the Department for Communities and Local Government’s consultation on a Third Sector Partnership Board (August 2008)
The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) is setting up a Third Sector Partnership Board to provide them with strategic advice on the design, development, implementation and evaluation of thei ...
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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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