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Book Synopsis Improving DWP Assessment of the Relative Costs and Benefits of Employment Programmes by : David H. Greenberg
Download or read book Improving DWP Assessment of the Relative Costs and Benefits of Employment Programmes written by David H. Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DWP runs a range of employment programmes. The department has regularly undertaken comparative cost benefit analyses (CBAs) of large numbers of these programmes. These exercises estimate the absolute and relative cost effectiveness of the various interventions. The department also frequently undertakes CBAs for individual employment programmes at the appraisal and evaluation stages of the policy cycle. To aid comparability and consistency in the assessment of its policies and programmes, the DWP has developed a CBF. This framework describes the steps that should be taken and the assumptions that should be made when conducting a CBA of an employment programme. The CBF ultimately attempts to ensure that public funds are spent efficiently and on programmes that generate the greatest net benefits to society. This report is intended to help improve the CBF. The research consisted of two components: a literature review and new empirical estimates from DWP administrative data. The the literature review considered the following topics: general equilibrium effects; subgroup impacts and distribution of impacts; duration of benefits and employment and wages; multiple participation in programmes or other interventions. The analysis of the administrative data provides: empirical estimates of gross duration of benefits and employment, and annual nominal taxable earnings. The estimates were produced for the range of New Deal programmes.
Book Synopsis Cost-Benefit Analysis by : Anthony E. Boardman
Download or read book Cost-Benefit Analysis written by Anthony E. Boardman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to cost-benefit analysis that aims to be readable and user-friendly.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215057600 Total Pages :236 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (576 download)
Book Synopsis Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Can the Work Programme work for all user groups? written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work Programme has the potential to work well for relatively mainstream jobseekers but is unlikely to reach the most disadvantaged long-term unemployed people. The Government spent some £248 million less on the Work Programme than anticipated in 2012/13, due to providers' under-performance in a "payment-by-results" programme. In the short term, the Committee urges the Government to use the unspent Work Programme budget to: extend proven, alternative provision for disadvantaged jobseekers, such as the Work Choice programme for disabled people; extend and continue to promote Access to Work to help disabled people overcome the practical difficulties of starting a job; and provide further support for individuals who complete their two-year attachment to the Work Programme without finding sustained employment. The Committee also highlights that people with the severest barriers to work, such as homelessness and serious drug and alcohol problems are often not ready for the Work Programme and need support first to prepare for it. It recommends that DWP pilots ways of providing this additional support to prepare these groups for effective engagement with the Work Programme before they are referred. In the longer-term, the Committee calls on DWP to consider moving away from the current differential pricing model, which is based on the type of benefit a participant is claiming, to a much more individualised, needs-based model. The Report recommends that DWP should assess how a needs-based pricing structure could determine the appropriate level of up-front funding and the types of services required to support individual jobseekers.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215554611 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (546 download)
Book Synopsis Support to incapacity benefits claimants through Pathways to Work by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Support to incapacity benefits claimants through Pathways to Work written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 2008-09, the Department for Work and Pensions (the Department) paid £12.6 billion in incapacity benefits to 2.6 million people who were unable to work because of disability or ill health. The Pathways to Work programme was launched nationally between 2005 and 2008 to help reduce the number of incapacity benefit claimants through targeted support and an earlier medical assessment. It is delivered by contractors in 60 per cent of districts, with Jobcentre Plus providing the service in the remainder. By March 2010, the programme had cost an estimated £760 million. The numbers on incapacity benefits reduced by 125,000 between 2005 and 2009 but the Pathways contribution to this reduction has been much more limited than planned. The programme was not well implemented. Pathways was introduced without effective piloting and rigorous evaluation of its likely impact. Early medical assessments appear to have had some success in moving people off incapacity benefits, although the Department does not monitor whether all these people move into work or onto other benefits. In other areas money has not been spent effectively. Private providers have seriously underperformed against their contracts and their success rates are worse than Jobcentre Plus. The Department should consider the evidence of the Committee's enquiries thoroughly before embarking on its new Work Programme. It should ensure good value for money by making good use of Jobcentre Plus resources and maintaining a sustainable balance between public, private and voluntary providers to allow proper competition and a good basis for comparing performance.
Author :Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780108509476 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis An independent review of the Work Capability Assessment by : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Download or read book An independent review of the Work Capability Assessment written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) was designed to focus on a person's capability rather than their incapacity. It distinguishes between those people who could work; those people who could work at some point with the right support (the Work-related Activity Group); and those people who cannot work (the Support Group). In essence the WCA was designed to be a first positive step towards work for most people. However this Review found that the WCA is not working as well as it should. Interactions with both Jobcentre Plus and Atos are often impersonal, mechanistic and lack clarity; the Jobcentre Plus Decision Makers do not in practice make decisions but instead typically 'rubber stamp' the advice provided through Atos; some conditions are more difficult to assess than others; communication and feedback between the difference agencies and organisations involved is often fragmented. Accordingly the key recommendations include: empowering and investing in Decision Makers; to account for the particular difficulties in assessing mental, intellectual and cognitive impairments by ensuring Atos employ 'champions' of these conditions in each Medical Examination Centre building more empathy into the process; improving transparency by ensuring each report contains a personalised summary of the Atos healthcare professional's recommendations;; and better communication and feedback. Piloting of audio recording of Atos assessments is also suggested. As the first of five annual reviews in the WCA this report also proposes a programme of work for the second review
Book Synopsis The Green Book by : Great Britain. Treasury
Download or read book The Green Book written by Great Britain. Treasury and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition incorporates revised guidance from H.M Treasury which is designed to promote efficient policy development and resource allocation across government through the use of a thorough, long-term and analytically robust approach to the appraisal and evaluation of public service projects before significant funds are committed. It is the first edition to have been aided by a consultation process in order to ensure the guidance is clearer and more closely tailored to suit the needs of users.
Book Synopsis Getting in, staying in and getting on by : Liz Sayce
Download or read book Getting in, staying in and getting on written by Liz Sayce and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review, looking at disability employment support, and entitled "Getting in, staying in and getting on", seeks to ensure that disabled people have the opportunities and support needed to meet their employment aspirations. The focus of the review has set out a number of recommendations for employment support and the author has focused on three areas to promote this objective. (1) To set out the types of support that today's young disabled people will want in a future economy; (2) Enshrining the right to work objectives as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (3) To make a case for cross-Government work to unlock the big enablers of employment, that is "Getting in, staying in and getting on" , which includes raising the aspirations of what disabled people can achieve. For "getting in" this should include more disabled people doing apprenticeships, work experience and work placements; for "staying in" there should be better promotion for Access to Work for retension and for "getting on" there should be greater encouragement of disabled people in setting up businesses and gaining skills for career development. The publication is divided into 5 chapters, with appendices.
Book Synopsis Government interventions to support retirement incomes by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Government interventions to support retirement incomes written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government measures to reduce the liability of the state for supporting people in their retirement are being managed separately, without adequate consideration of their combined impact on the overall objective of increasing retirement incomes. There is no overarching programme or single accountability for encouraging people to save for retirement. The Treasury leads on overall savings strategy, and DWP on workplace saving but, without a whole system view there is a risk that individual, but co-dependent interventions may not be effective in increasing saving for retirement. Spending on the state pension and pensioner benefits increased from 5.5 per cent of GDP in 1990 to 6.9 per cent in 2011-12, in part because of the growing pensioner population, but also because of increased spending per capita on pensioner benefits. The Government expects to reduce the potential long-term spending liability by increasing the future state pension age, introducing automatic enrolment into workplace pensions and changing the state pension. However the existing initiatives to manage this problem face challenges. Government does not have a formal published strategy to influence employers. The success of encouraging saving for retirement through automatic enrolment into a pension also depends on the responses of individuals, pension providers and employers - in particular on the proportion of employees who remain with the schemes. The value of the UK state pension, as a proportion of pre-retirement earnings, has historically been low compared to other developed countries, and projections for future spending on state pensions and pensioner benefits may prove too optimistic
Book Synopsis Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy by : C. Lindsay
Download or read book Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy written by C. Lindsay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.
Book Synopsis Social Security Law in the United Kingdom by : Stephen Hardy
Download or read book Social Security Law in the United Kingdom written by Stephen Hardy and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book describes the social security regime in the United Kingdom. It conveys a clear working knowledge of the legal mechanics affecting health care, employment injuries and occupational diseases, incapacity to work, pensions, survivors’ benefits, unemployment benefits and services, and family benefits. The analysis covers the field of application, conditions for entitlement, calculation of benefits, financing, the institutional framework, and relevant law enforcement and controls. Allowances for retirees, employees, public sector workers, the self-employed, and the handicapped are all clearly explained, along with full details of claims, adjudication procedures, and appeals. Succinct yet eminently practical, the book will be a valuable resource for lawyers handling social security matters in the United Kingdom. It will be of practical utility to those both in public service and private practice called on to develop and to apply social security law and policy, and of special interest as a contribution to the comparative study of social security systems.
Book Synopsis Towards a more equal society? by : Hills, John
Download or read book Towards a more equal society? written by Hills, John and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten years on its success in making Britain 'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an unprecedented third term in office, this book asks whether Britain has indeed moved in that direction. The highly successful earlier volume A more equal society? was described by Polly Toynbee as the LSE's mighty judgement on inequality. Now this second volume by the same team of authors provides an independent assessment of the success or otherwise of New Labour's policies over a longer period. It provides: · consideration by a range of expert authors of a broad set of indicators and policy areas affecting poverty, inequality and social exclusion; · analysis of developments up to the third term on areas including income inequality, education, employment, health inequalities, neighbourhoods, minority ethnic groups, children and older people; · an assessment of outcomes a decade on, asking whether policies stood up to the challenges, and whether successful strategies have been sustained or have run out of steam; chapters on migration, social attitudes, the devolved administrations, the new Equality and Human Rights Commission, and future pressures. The book is essential reading for academic and student audiences with an interest in contemporary social policy, as well as for all those seeking an objective account of Labour's achievements in power.
Book Synopsis Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being? by : Gordon Waddell
Download or read book Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being? written by Gordon Waddell and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing employment and supporting people into work are key elements of the Government's public health and welfare reform agendas. This independent review, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, examines scientific evidence on the health benefits of work, focusing on adults of working age and the common health problems that account for two-thirds of sickness absence and long-term incapacity. The study finds that there is a strong evidence base showing that work is generally good for physical and mental health and well-being, taking into account the nature and quality of work and its social context, and that worklessness is associated with poorer physical and mental health. Work can be therapeutic and can reverse the adverse health effects of unemployment, in relation to healthy people of working age, for many disabled people, for most people with common health problems and for social security beneficiaries.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215054128 Total Pages :256 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (541 download)
Book Synopsis Governance and Best Practice in Workplace Pension Provision by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Governance and Best Practice in Workplace Pension Provision written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215021472 Total Pages :86 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (214 download)
Book Synopsis The Performance of the Child Support Agency: Report by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book The Performance of the Child Support Agency: Report written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report examines continuing concerns about the performance of the Child Support Agency (CSA), particularly in relation to its compliance and enforcement regime. Issues discussed include: the old and new child support schemes; performance targets and information management; the IT problems encountered; child support assessments; compliance targets and debt levels; enforcement measures in the UK and other countries, notably Australia; staffing issues including staff training, job cuts, pay and morale; and options for urgent action and longer term reforms. The CSA is found to be a failing organisation which is currently in crisis, and requires radical reform in order to provide an acceptable service. Senior management has failed to provide effective leadership through significant cultural shift, with deficient training given to frontline staff and inadequate monitoring procedures in place. The Committee strongly recommends that proposed job cuts be suspended until the Agency's business transformation programme, including its IT system, is proved to be fully functioning. If the recommended improvements are not made, the CSA may need to be wound up and alternative policies implemented to provide financial support and maintenance for children.
Book Synopsis Improving Lives by : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Download or read book Improving Lives written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated October 2016. Print and web pdfs available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474137805
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215036032 Total Pages :448 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (36 download)
Book Synopsis Post-16 skills by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee
Download or read book Post-16 skills written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Education and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-16 Skills : Ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
