DWP Resources Swiped Here For Users

UserWatch is giving you the resources for further study on the Dept of Work and Pensions's (DWP) website page ref: Welfare Reform . The Employment Support Allowance (ESA) is here and Incapacity Benefit (IB) is changing . So study the situation if need be ..We know that great anxiety is being created by Govt and we feel the way Welfare Reform has been treated, is less enabling of the Ladders-and-Bridges-to-recovery approach , and more getting rid of the workhouses (that became mental health asylums) only to create community re-isolated workarses. That's you . Its quite cruel and typically unegotiated by the new political classes who wanted welfare to die a Thatcherite death. So much for the Service Economy (globalising) approach and banking to sustain us all . We predict a new form of localism (not protectionism) will evolve though, as slowly it will become socially and economically impractical to have productive sectors the other side of the world .....

No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility

No one written off - case studies

• Watch three short films

The Green Paper “No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility” was a wide ranging consultation on the future of welfare. It set out plans for improving support and work incentives to create a system that rewards responsibility and delivers greater choice and control over the support that is provided. The consultation closed on 22 October 2008.

A summary of responses to the consultation and the Government’s White Paper will appear on this site.

Get involved – take part in our final consultation event

Our final consultation event is on Friday 24 October in Newcastle – this event is now full.

• Find out more detail about this consultation event

Read the Green Paper

PDF

• No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility (1.73MB)

Section by section - PDF

• Cover (386KB)
• Title (77KB)
• Contents (41KB)
• Foreword (170KB)
• Executive summary (157KB)
• Chapter 1 Promoting opportunity and realising potential (295KB)
• Chapter 2 An obligation to work (503KB)
• Chapter 3 No one written off (377KB)
• Chapter 4 Ending child poverty (190KB)
• Chapter 5 Delivering choice and control for disabled people (208KB)
• Chapter 6 Simplifying and streamlining the benefit system (258KB)
• Chapter 7 Empowerment and devolution – a new way of delivering our services (172KB)
• Chapter 8 Next steps – our commitment to listen (122KB)

Large print

• No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility – large print (974KB)

Easy read version

• No one written off – Easy read version part 1 (1MB)
• No one written off – Easy read version part 2 (963KB)
• No one written off – Easy read version part 3 (968KB)

Consultation questions

No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility – List of consultation questions (13.9KB) rich text format

Quick Read

The Quick Read is a shorter summary of the Green Paper.

No one written off - quick read (547KB)

The printed version includes a FREEPOST response form to make it easier for people to send in their views on the policy proposals. If you are running a consultation event, you can order copies using the contact details below.

Impact assessment

Impact assessment – No one written off: reforming welfare to reward responsibility (387KB)

Case studies

Watch three short films that explore the steps some of our customers have taken in their journey to secure work after a period of long-term unemployment. Through the continued support of DWP they highlight the challenges each individual has faced and overcome to find a fulfilling job.

More support, higher expectations

The Government believes that citizens should meet certain conditions in return for state support and that this will help people to find work and escape poverty. This is known as conditionality.

More support, higher expectations: the role of conditionality in improving employment outcomes (169KB) considers the impact and effectiveness of conditionality in the UK welfare system

Copies of the consultation

You can order copies of the consultation from:

Email: welfare.reform@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Post: Department for Work and Pensions, Welfare Reform Green Paper Team, Room 249, Level 2, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT
Fax: 020 7712 2458
Telephone: 020 7712 2316
Textphone: 020 7962 8380