High quality employment support needed to help break disability and poverty link

Responding to today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee, Gaining and retaining a job: the Department for Work and Pensions’ support for disabled people, Child Poverty Action Group’s chief Executive, Kate Green, said:

“This is an important and timely report with the Government’s Welfare Reform Bill about to be considered in the House of Lords. Disabled people and their families are at much greater risk of poverty so effective investment in specialised employment support to overcome barriers they face in the labour market is vital.

“The Committee’s concerns that the quality of service provision is patchy should lead the Government to reconsider their view that new benefit sanctions are needed for unemployed disabled people. The priority should be high quality services for all who need specialist support, not cutting benefits.”

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Tim Nichols
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