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Dear all,
Please find below details of a SRA evening seminar next week.
SRA EVENING SEMINAR
5:00pm, Wednesday 14th June 2006 (light refreshments from 4:30pm)
at the Nuffield Foundation
28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS
PATHWAYS TO WORK: THE PROGRAMME AND THE EVALUATION OF REFORMS TO INCAPACITY
BENEFITS
What are the Government's plans for Incapacity Benefit? Can the Government
help and empower people to come off Incapacity Benefits and go back into work?
In January of this year, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)
published the Green Paper A New Deal for Welfare: empowering people to work
which set out the Government's vision of welfare provision in the future
and outlined their plans for reforms to the Incapacity Benefits system. The
plans outlined in the Green Paper build on a pilot of the proposed changes
to the support provided to claimants of Incapacity Benefit that have been
running in seven areas across Britain since 2003. An international
consortium is currently carrying out a large-scale evaluation of these
pilots consisting of quantitative, qualitative, cost and impact analysis
elements.
This SRA evening seminar is an opportunity to find out about both the
reforms to Incapacity Benefit and this large-scale evaluation project.
Maria Strudwick and Liz Cole, Senior Research Officers from the DWP's
Disability and Work Division will outline the Incapacity Benefit reforms in
the Green Paper and talk about the Government's use of early findings from
the Pathways to work evaluation project. Getinet Haile (Research Fellow)
and Helen Barnes (Principal Research Fellow) from the Policy Studies
Institute (PSI), the lead organisation for the evaluation, will give an
overview of the project's Quantitative and Qualitative aspects. Finally,
Alissa Goodman (Deputy Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies) will
outline the early quantitative evidence on the impact of the Pathways to
work pilots. This presentation will provide estimates of the early impact
of Pathways on individuals' employment, earnings, receipt of Incapacity
Benefits, and an indicator of the extent to which individuals’ health
affects their everyday activities.
This seminar is free to SRA members, while a small charge of £10 is payable
by non-members. The seminar will take place at The Nuffield Foundation
(directions available at
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/go/contactus/page_17.html). There is no
need to book: simply turn up on the evening.
The seminar will start promptly at 5:00pm, and will end at around 6.30pm.
The Social Research Association looks forward to welcoming you.
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