The government’s planned reforms contain some good ideas – but the challenges are huge.
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At the height of the pandemic, the government temporarily paused welfare conditionality, but claimants continued to seek work at just the same level as when conditionality was in place.
A new report offers valuable advice on how to support people to find the right job – something the UK needs if it wants to achieve economic growth.
The extreme levels of poverty endured by economically inactive people (as highlighted in the government’s own data) are a direct result of deliberate political choices to continually erode benefits.
With stricter conditionality and sanctions, the new plan looks set to limit people’s access to benefits more than it improves their hopes of getting a job
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Associate Professor in Journalism Studies, University of Stirling
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Professor of Regional Economic Development and Policy, Keele University
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Professor of Career Guidance, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor in Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Reader in Employment and Head of the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University