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The Efficiency Savings Programme In Jobcentre Plus
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Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215027979 Total Pages :100 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (279 download)
Book Synopsis The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two years Jobcentre Plus has faced considerable upheaval in trying to accommodate both organisational change and meet the DWP target for efficiency savings (which requires the loss of 15,000 staff by March 20008). This report looks at how these changes have affected the ability of the Agency to meet its objectives in relation to: employment and training programmes; the capacity and role of Personal Advisors; the performance of the Customer Management System; the principles behind and the performance of Contact Centres. It concludes that too much was attempted too quickly, the planning and IT processes were not up to the job and service levels suffered. As a result Jobcentre Plus failed one of the tests of the Gershon programme that service quality should not deteriorate as a result of the efficiency process.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215029256 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (292 download)
Book Synopsis The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HCP 834, session 2005-06, (ISBN 0215027973).
Book Synopsis Delivering on Child Poverty by : Lisa Harker
Download or read book Delivering on Child Poverty written by Lisa Harker and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK has comparatively high levels of child poverty: around one in five children are living in relative poverty (defined as living in a household with below 60 per cent median income before housing costs). The Government has made significant progress on reducing child poverty, with 700,000 less children in poverty than in 1988/89 (when the figure was 3.4 million), but missed its interim target of reducing child poverty by a quarter by 2004/05. It is unlikely, with current policies, to meet its 2010 target of halving child poverty, nor the 2020 target of eliminating it. This report recommends reforms to the Welfare to Work and New Deal for Lone Parents programmes. They should be more attuned to the particular needs of parents, who need guidance, support and skills to progress in work. They should not just encourage parents to take any job rather than one that offers them good long-term prospects, or leads to parents "cycling" between having a job and being out of work. Moreover, many children in poverty live in families that have no contact with Welfare to Work programmes. Jobcentre Plus, the agency that is charged with reducing joblessness, needs to focus more on the family, providing more flexible packages of support and seeking a wider customer reach. If necessary other agencies might have to be involved in delivering the recommendations. The author makes a number of recommendations for immediate implementation; others are for action after evaluation; and several new pilot schemes are also suggested.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215036988 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (369 download)
Book Synopsis Full employment and world class skills by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Full employment and world class skills written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the recommendations of the Leitch Review "Prosperity for all in the global economy: world class skills" (TSO, ISBN 9780118404792) published in December 2006, the Government produced two policy papers setting out its plans to improve the co-ordination of employment and skills training so that people who are low-skilled and out of work have a better chance of finding and keeping employment. These documents are the Green Paper "In work, better off" (Cm. 7130, ISBN 9780101713023) and a related document "World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in England' (Cm. 7181, ISBN 9780101718127), both published in July 2007. The Committee's report examines these key policy statements, assessing the Department for Work and Pension's plans for future reform and how the Department will fulfil its role in improving the skills levels of people entering work, drawing on the findings of previous Committee inquiries into welfare reform issues.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215028471 Total Pages :84 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (284 download)
Book Synopsis The 2006 Budget by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee
Download or read book The 2006 Budget written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report examines key measures contained in the 2006 Budget (HCP 968, session 2005-06; ISBN 0102937311), as well as the discussing the general state of the UK economy and specific public finance issues. Amongst the Committee's conclusions: rising gas and oil prices are key features of the overall economic outlook and the Committee recommends the Government should make a report to Parliament on progress to secure independent investigation of European gas markets; and it questions the Government's use of taxation instruments as a mechanism to achieve its environmental objectives, for example its decision to freeze the rate of air passenger duty (APD) for a fifth year running.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215035455 Total Pages :122 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (354 download)
Book Synopsis Benefits simplification by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Benefits simplification written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No welfare system that attempts to meet the needs of millions of vulnerable people can be simple but this report concludes the UK benefit system has an unacceptable level of dysfunctional complexity. This causes considerable operational difficulties and can contribute to financial hardship for claimants. Although some good work is being done on incremental and operational improvement, this cannot address the far-reaching systematic complexity. The Committee is disappointed that the Government has not set out a clear vision for a simplified system and asks that it should consider the case for radical reform. They note the role played by the Pensions Commission in assessing the options for UK pensions and propose the establishment of a Welfare Commission that can undertake a full examination of the possibility for fundamental change.
Book Synopsis OECD Employment Outlook 2013 by : OECD
Download or read book OECD Employment Outlook 2013 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD Employment Outlook 2013 looks at labour markets in the wake of the crisis. It also includes chapters employment protection legislation; benefit systems, employment and training programmes and re-employment earnings and skills afer job loss.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215033024 Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (33 download)
Book Synopsis Child support reform by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Child support reform written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child support Reform : Fourth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215033376 Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (333 download)
Book Synopsis Personal accounts by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Personal accounts written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Accounts : Fifth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215030060 Total Pages :140 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Pension Reform by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Pension Reform written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-07-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government proposed a significant reform of the pensions system in the White Paper 'Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system' (ISBN 0101684126). This report sets out the Committee's response to the proposals. It looks at: personal accounts; existing occupational and private pensions; state pension reform; the state second pension; whether the state pension should remain two-tier; means-testing; how much it will cost; increasing the state pension age; working longer; and public engagement with pensions. Their conclusion is that on the whole the Government's measures are the right way forward.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215526656 Total Pages :96 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (266 download)
Book Synopsis DWP's Commissioning Strategy and the Flexible New Deal by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book DWP's Commissioning Strategy and the Flexible New Deal written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design and delivery of employment programmes are critical to the success of welfare reform and fundamental to the Government's aspiration of an 80 per cent employment rate. The new Flexible New Deal (FND) programme will be part of the revised JSA regime and will be delivered by large prime contractors who will work with subcontractors at a subregional level. Prime contractors will be given longer contracts and have greater autonomy to design individualised support for customers who have been unemployed for more than 12 months. The Committee welcomes the move towards longer contracts and endorses the principles of the FND programme, and was impressed by the work that Jobcentre Plus staff are undertaking to prepare for the introduction of the new regime. Yet there are significant concerns that fundamental flaws exist in the design of FND and the assumptions on which it is based. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) accepts that on-flows onto FND could be 300 per cent higher than first indicated, with implications for resources at the providers, and possible delays in implementing FND in some areas. The Committee urges DWP to confirm that changes will be made to the budget to reflect the massive increase in predicted onflows to FND. It might not be possible for providers to meet the targets on which contractor payments are principally based, and the Committee received evidence to suggest that the financial model for FND is flawed and its targets unrealistic. It is crucial that DWP and other departments ensure that collaborative working with City Strategies, local authorities and other local Partners is facilitated at all levels if joint commissioning is to become a reality.
Book Synopsis Connecting People with Jobs Activation Policies in the United Kingdom by : OECD
Download or read book Connecting People with Jobs Activation Policies in the United Kingdom written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines recent activation policies in the United Kingdom aimed at moving people back into work. It offers insight into how countries can improve the effectiveness of their employment services and also control spending on benefits.
Author :Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780101686129 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (861 download)
Book Synopsis Report on Incapacity Benefits and Pathways to Work by : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions
Download or read book Report on Incapacity Benefits and Pathways to Work written by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document sets out the Government's response to the Work and Pensions Select Committee's report (HCP 616, session 2005-06; ISBN 0215028694) published in May 2006. The Committee's report examined the Government's proposals for welfare reform as detailed in its Green Paper 'A new deal for welfare: empowering people to work' (Cm 6730, ISBN 0101673027) published in January 2006. Issues discussed include: the aim to reduce the number of people claiming incapacity benefits by one million within a decade; the introduction of a new benefit called Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) to replace incapacity benefit from 2008; and the future rollout of the 'Pathways to Work' scheme. An analysis of consultation responses to the Green Paper is available separately (Cm 6859, ISBN 0101685920).
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215544766 Total Pages :170 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (447 download)
Book Synopsis Management and administration of contracted employment programmes by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book Management and administration of contracted employment programmes written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines contracted employment programmes and focuses in particular on the prevention of fraud, the treatment of subcontractors, and ensuring fair treatment of customers. The Committee found that levels of detected fraud in contracted employment programmes are low, but feels that there is no room for complacency; the frauds uncovered to date have highlighted the existence of weaknesses in the system which could be exploited. Processes for the detection of fraud must be rigorous and robust. In addition, the financial penalties for providers who have fraud in their organisation are not severe enough. The report calls for customer rights to be given a much higher priority, and for a universal, monitored, and enforceable customer charter to be introduced. It also calls on the Department to carry out a "Customer Survey" of customers of contracted employment programmes to enable standards of customer service to be compared between providers and with Jobcentre Plus. The quality of provision to vulnerable groups, particularly those with disabilities, is another area of concern as providers are having to work with customers with more severe barriers than they had anticipated. The Report examines several examples of potential mistreatment of sub-contractors including allegations of the operation of a cartel, and notes that while it does not know how widespread unfair treatment of subcontractors is, neither does the Department.
Book Synopsis Britain's Modernised Civil Service by : June Burnham
Download or read book Britain's Modernised Civil Service written by June Burnham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's Modernised Civil Service provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the modern civil service along with an historically grounded account of its development. Key events, personalities and scandals help bring the account to life and illuminate and challenge the various theories of what the civil service is or should be. The authors take the evolutionary change of the civil service as a central theme and examine the impact of the major reforms of recent years on the historic Whitehall unitary model. They assess the impact of the New Public Management agenda of the Thatcher and Major years and the role of the Civil Service in the multi-governmental context of devolution and membership of the European Union. Further changes associated with New Labour such the increased role of think tanks, special advisers and the impact of the freedom of information act further sharpen the picture of today's civil service and lead to a rethinking of theories of its role. This readable book by two leading authorities provides an up-to-date account of Britain's Civil Service that will be essential reading for students of British politics, public policy and management. June Burnham is a researcher and consultant in the area of public services and public policy and formerly Senior Lecturer in European Government at Middlesex University. Robert Pyper is Professor of Government and Public Management, and Head of the Division of Public Policy at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is author of The British Civil Service for which this is a fully-revised replacement volume.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215036247 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (362 download)
Book Synopsis The efficiency programme by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book The efficiency programme written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government's Efficiency Programme is designed to achieve ongoing efficiency gains across the public sector of £21.5 billion a year by 2007-08 to improve front line services, to reduce Civil Service posts by more than 70,000 and to reallocate a further 13,500 posts to front line services.Departments are responsible for delivering and quantifying the efficiencies achieved while the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) checks the robustness of figures put forward and provides support to help departments deliver their gains. On 26 February the Committee took evidence on the £13.3 billion of annual efficiency gains departments had reported up to 30 September 2006. While some of these reported gains are robust, almost £10 billion of reported efficiency gains remain uncertain. On the basis of a Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General,evidence was taken from OGC and the Treasury on four main issues: the measurement of efficiency gains and headcount reductions; the effects of efficiency projects on service quality; the management of the Programme; and embedding a culture of efficiency into the public sector.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215529824 Total Pages :102 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (298 download)
Book Synopsis The Equality Bill by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee
Download or read book The Equality Bill written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee welcomes the Government's intentions to simplify and streamline legislation on discrimination into one single Equality Bill. But it believes that disability discrimination requires a difference in approach and should be predicated on the idea that we need to treat people differently to accord disabled people equal opportunities. The challenge is to bring disability discrimination law within that broad family of equality law whilst recognising those key differences. To meet this objective, the Government should re-establish the version of disability-related discrimination that existed before the recent Lewisham v Malcolm judgment and which was well understood by employers and employees alike. Preserving strong disability rights needs to go hand in hand with an adequate defence for those with duties under the legislation. Harmonising the different provisions that currently permit employers, service providers, landlords and others to justify disability discrimination in certain circumstances will ensure a balance between their responsibilities and the rights of the disabled person. The Committee also calls for removal of one of the greatest obstacles to improving employment opportunities for older people: the continued existence of the statutory default retirement age in the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. The overall employment rate of disabled people has increased since 1995, but the rate for people with mental illness, phobias or panic has remained substantially lower (at just over 10 per cent) than that for those with most other types of impairment. Too many employers and disabled people are unaware of what support is available for them through the Access to Work scheme. DWP research identified recruitment as the most common source of discrimination against disabled people but few cases reach court. The public sector has an important role to play in promoting equality but needs to focus on outcomes not process.
