I cannot but I do know from recent experience that job centres are no better equipped than they were five or six years ago, and that it is all rhetoric and no substance. Above all none of it is "person centred" the individual is not allowed to be an expert in there own condition, and essentially beneath all the veneer is the same punitive strategy of the Victorian workhouse so far as the mentality of the execution is concerned.
Scapegoats and sacrificial lambs is what we are. I remember must be twenty years ago attending a conference on benefit reform hosted by DIG or the Disability Alliance, where the prinicipal of partial capacity benefits were mooted, that is a sliding scale of benefits which does not depend upon being either totally unable to work or otherwise.
Whatever happened to that idea?
The biggest barriers to employment are still the fact that some disabilities are less desirable than others and the fact that there is ample opportunity for employers to justify there decisions by other means when scarcity still rules in the job market and it is a buyers market.
Bloody government ministers will never know what it means until they experience it.
Larry
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> Hi there,
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> does anybody know of and can point me in the direction of any
> independent evaluations of the government's "pathways to work"
> pilot schemes, now to be rolled out as a central part of its
> proposed reforms of incapacity benefit? True, the government is
> very keen on them, but are they just blowing their own trumpet?
>
> thanks for any help.
>
> nick acheson
> Dr Nick Acheson,
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> School of Policy Studies
> University of Ulster
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