Summary
This Paper, ‘Opportunity,
Employment and Progression: Making Skills Work’ (Cm. 7288), examines the
case for reform of welfare and skills provisions in England.
It
is a joint Paper from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
and the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Paper sets out how an
integrated employment and skills welfare system, where the individual is helped
to sustainable employment and progression in work and in learning, might work.
This idea was first discussed in
'World
Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England’ (Cm.
7181) and
'In
Work, Better Off: Next Steps to Full Employment’ (Cm. 7130).
Issues
discussed include:
- Principles of welfare reform
- Integrating
employment and skills
- Increased support with skills - getting into
work and beyond
- Sustainable employment, progression and life long
learning
- Key principles for delivering integrated employment and
skills.
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This is a Command Paper
(Cm. 7288 2007-08): it is a Report from the Department for Innovation,
Universities and Skills and the Department for Work and Pensions.
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