Tag Archives: Welfare
Press & Media
The M Word: valuing families
With manifestos on everyone’s minds at the party conferences this year, our quest for catchy policy ideas has been a leitmotif of the SMF’s conference activity.
Published: | 03 October 2013 |
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The computer says ‘no’: SMF response to NAO Universal Credit report
SMF Deputy Director Nigel Keohane responds to a new report from the National Audit Office on the progress of the Government’s flagship welfare reform programme.
Published: | 05 September 2013 |
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Press Release: Former DWP Secretary – personalised welfare to restore middle-class support for social security and boost savings
Radical thinking is required to restore public support for the welfare state and get people saving adequately, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Lord John Hutton claims in the foreword to the SMF think tank’s new publication Beveridge Rebooted.
Published: | 15 August 2013 |
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Work Programme performance improved but providers still risk contract termination
New official figures on the second year of the Government's flagship back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, demonstrate that while performance is greatly improved on the first year, many providers are still at risk of contract termination due to under-performance against arbitrary DWP criteria, according to the Social Market Foundation.
Published: | 27 June 2013 |
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Work Programme statistics: initial reaction
SMF initial reaction to the Work Programme statistics, published on 27 June 2013.
Published: | 27 June 2013 |
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Spending Review 2013: Response from the Social Market Foundation
The Social Market Foundation responds to Spending Review 2013, which was predominantly about departmental spending in the 2015-16 fiscal year. The SMF argues that what it actually tells us most about is how tough politics is about to become.
Published: | 26 June 2013 |
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Press Release: Interpreting Work Programme performance (SMF Briefing Paper)
On Thursday 27 June the Government will release the latest performance figures on its flagship back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme. This short briefing explores the likely performance levels we will see ifrom the second year of the scheme.
Published: | 25 June 2013 |
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‘Facebook Welfare’ to put social relationships at the heart of jobseeker support
The Government should adopt a radical new model of unemployment support combining retirement and rainy-day savings, underpinned by the power of social relationships, the Social Market Foundation think tank claims today (Monday 17 June).
Published: | 16 June 2013 |
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Unemployment policy is damaging the UK workforce, claims leading economist
The Government’s approach to reforming unemployment support is harming the UK’s future prosperity and will not equip the country for the global race, a leading economist warns today.
Published: | 17 May 2013 |
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