Next steps to full employment
Summary
This Green Paper
‘In
Work, Better Off: Next steps to full employment’ (Cm. 7130) sets out to
deliver a step change in the employment and skills support offered by the
Government to those who are most disadvantaged in the labour market.
This Green Paper sets out proposals for a newly integrated employment
and skills system, with a more personalised, flexible and responsive New Deal
offering new support to job seekers in return for new responsibilities and
encouraging individuals to help themselves, and a strengthening of the rights
and responsibility agenda, particularly for lone parents.
The proposals
are underpinned by a more extensive partnership at the heart of welfare
delivery which makes greater use of expertise across the public, private and
voluntary sectors at both national and local level. Along with a renewed
partnership with employers, including a new Jobs Pledge, which aims to find job
opportunities for over 250,000 people currently on benefit who are ready and
prepared to work.
The Green Paper builds on the measures in this year's
'Welfare
Reform Act'. It was published on 18th July 2007 alongside
‘World
Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England' (Cm
7181). (Read
more
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How does it affect me?
If you work in education or are an employer, this affects you.
See more on the
Department for Work and Pensions
website.
Contribute to the Consultation:
The Department
for Work and Pensions are consulting on these proposals, and want to build a
consensus in support of full employment as a key aim of government policy.
The consultation period begins on 18 July 2007 and runs until 31 October
2007.
Send your consultation responses to:
Green Paper
Consultation Team
Department for Work and Pensions
Level 2,
The
Adelphi
1–11 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6HT
Telephone:
0207 712 2551
Textphone: 0207 712 2032 (for people with speech or hearing
difficulties)
Fax: 0207 962 8380
Email:
welfare.reform@dwp.gsi.gov.uk