An independent report, commissioned by the DWP, has called for greater use of Residential Training for disabled people and an extension of the scheme to include long term unemployed non-disabled people.
The report also accepts that this kind of training, which can involve periods of workfare away from home, should be opened up to the market. This process may begin with a open tender exercise next year.
Residential Training is a little known scheme available for disabled people who are long term unemployed and in the words of Jobcentre Disability Employment Advisors, are the ‘hardest to help’.
The programme lasts a year and includes a mixture of residential and non-residential training, along with a period of up to three months workfare. Whilst the DWP’s guidance (PDF) states that this workfare should aim to take place in the participant’s local area, in some cases it can also be arranged on a…
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yes they taking right back to those days were we had nowt not even freedom it seems the tory policy is going all out worst than the thatcher days jeff3
workfare more like work house… what next …death camps …dont be afraid its only a shower ……why when high unemployment has been a tory plan and policy since the thatcher era to force wages down …..it sickens me that these scum create high unemployment by design then persicute and demonise the very people they have left on the scrap heap as a planed policy
You’re absolutely right there, Ian! They do indeed have a high-unemployment policy in order to keep wages down; and they are using it as a way of persecuting those who have already been victimised by it.