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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 DWP’s consultation “Improving specialist disability employment services” (March 2008)
DWP is proposing to streamline the Job Introduction Scheme, Work Preparation and WORKSTEP into a single flexible programme. The concepts that are shaping the proposals are: a greater ...
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- Social Firms UK’sresponse to The Department Of Health’s consultation “Valuing people now” and its proposals for the learning disability agenda for 2008 – 2011 (March 2008)
Department of Health has put forward it priorities as personalisation; what people do during the day (with a focus on paid work); better health; housing that people want and need; and making sure change happe ...
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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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- Position statement on Welfare Reform, The David Freud paper & The Social Firm sector (May 2007)
Social Firms UK and Social Firms Scotland have presented to the government, a position statement on welfare reform, the David Freud paper and the Social Firm sector. The statement requests that social enterpr ...
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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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- 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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