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Employment and support allowance in contextAdvisers should be aware of all of the following, some of which overlap in some way with ESA, others which are occurring in parallel.
• Changes to local housing allowances, as part of the Welfare Reform Act
• New Green Paper, In work, better off: The next steps to full employment, which sets out proposals for the establishment of Local Employment Partnerships, increased conditionality for lone parents and jobseekers, a new flexible New Deal as well as a contracting strategy
• The Freud Report, which looked at the last 10 years of welfare to work policies and made fundamental suggestions as to how to develop these policies over the next 10 years
• Pathways to Work being rolled out nationally from April 2008, with contracts currently being allocated to mainly private sector contractors
• Work and Pensions Committee report on benefit simplification, which made a raft of proposals for how this could be achieved, including the setting up of a Welfare Commission to look at what we want from a welfare system, in addition to raising the implementation of a single working age benefit
• Institute for Public Policy Research paper on Citizen Centred Welfare, which examines how Jobcentre Plus should provide services to claimants, what balance of rights and responsibilities would provide a fair system, more on a single working age benefit, and reform of New Deal
• Work and Pensions Committee report on the Social Fund, setting out various proposals for reform
• Leitch Review of Skills, which lead in turn to World Class Skills: Implementing the Leitch Review of Skills In England, setting out proposals for lifelong learning, adult skills development and in-work progression.
