In one of the most sweeping welfare reforms in a generation, Work and Pensions secretary, Iain Duncan-Smith recently announced that the long-term unemployed would be forced to perform menial work in order to maintain their benefits. Bart Cammaerts looks closely at this policy change, and finds little evidence that it will be cost-effective, and that it may even lead to a more unfair and unequal societ
It\u27s time for Governments to stop playing musical chairs with the benefits system writes Cas...
At a time when more workless people in the UK are being mandated into highly conditional welfare to ...
This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which have led to i...
This article assesses the Conservative-led Coalition Government’s (2010–2015) record on benefit sanc...
In this article, Andrew Dunn presents research which finds that many unemployed people prefer living...
Welfare to Work was one of the Labour Party's flagship policies during the run-up to the 1997 electi...
This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which have led to i...
The Department for Work and Pensions will today release statistics on the Work Programme; a governme...
Qualitative research into the impact of welfare reforms have found that they led to an erosion of re...
It is 80 years since Beveridge took on what he called the ‘five giants’ of want, disease, ignorance,...
Unemployment has stood out as a crucial and controversial issue in the UK. Long term and unskilled u...
© 2011 Dr. Daniel Jeremy PerkinsThe last two decades have witnessed a change in the form and substan...
Since the 1970s, the governance of labour market policies in the UK has been characterised by New Pu...
In 2012 the UK Government introduced the harshest regime of conditionality and sanctions in the hist...
The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients...
It\u27s time for Governments to stop playing musical chairs with the benefits system writes Cas...
At a time when more workless people in the UK are being mandated into highly conditional welfare to ...
This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which have led to i...
This article assesses the Conservative-led Coalition Government’s (2010–2015) record on benefit sanc...
In this article, Andrew Dunn presents research which finds that many unemployed people prefer living...
Welfare to Work was one of the Labour Party's flagship policies during the run-up to the 1997 electi...
This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which have led to i...
The Department for Work and Pensions will today release statistics on the Work Programme; a governme...
Qualitative research into the impact of welfare reforms have found that they led to an erosion of re...
It is 80 years since Beveridge took on what he called the ‘five giants’ of want, disease, ignorance,...
Unemployment has stood out as a crucial and controversial issue in the UK. Long term and unskilled u...
© 2011 Dr. Daniel Jeremy PerkinsThe last two decades have witnessed a change in the form and substan...
Since the 1970s, the governance of labour market policies in the UK has been characterised by New Pu...
In 2012 the UK Government introduced the harshest regime of conditionality and sanctions in the hist...
The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients...
It\u27s time for Governments to stop playing musical chairs with the benefits system writes Cas...
At a time when more workless people in the UK are being mandated into highly conditional welfare to ...
This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which have led to i...