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Welfare Reform Bill is blot on social care landscape

By Simeon Brody on October 19, 2009 3:03 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks
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by Peter Beresford

Only a matter of weeks to go now for the consultation on the social care green paper: Care, Support, Independence: Shaping the future of care together.  But I won't be the first service user or carer to say that we can't consider the green paper without also taking into account the Welfare Reform Bill.
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Children will suffer if parents are forced into low-paid jobs

By Adam McCulloch on September 30, 2009 1:42 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Bob-Holman-60.jpgParents forced into work will not be pulled out of poverty by low-paid jobs and their children will suffer by their absence

by Bob Holman

Government minister Stephen Timms wants both parents in poor families off benefits and into work. If necessary, they should be compelled to do so. The proposal is enthusiastically supported by the right-wing TaxPayers' Alliance.


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Is Duncan-Smith benefits plan an end to Conservative welfare bashing?

By Adam McCulloch on September 25, 2009 2:25 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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It's party conference season, and, not so long ago, we could rely on the Conservative Party conference to produce some headline-grabbing speeches bashing all of us benefits claimants. We would all be castigated as scroungers, living a life of luxury on the back of other people's labours. But things are changing.

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Welfare reform green paper: threats and punishment won't work

By Adam McCulloch on July 24, 2008 2:52 PM | 5 Comments | No TrackBacks
Bateman, Neil mug web.gifby Neil Bateman

The welfare reform green paper (published on 21 July) contains yet more proposals for toughening up the benefits system. It seems there is no turning back when it comes to these ideas that Tebbitt, Lilley and Co only dreamed of and now being wafted through by Brown, Purnell Associates.

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