Official thread: ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper released Tuesday 26th November
thought I’d get this thread started early as I’ll imagine the papers will be publishing significant leaks later tonight
From the sounds of things upcoming welfare reforms (such as wca and pip) won’t be covered in this white paper (at least in major detail) - past quotes from the gov suggest welfare reform reveal launch won’t happen till spring 2025
From what I read this white paper will probably focus on mid to long time strategies to get the country/welfare state functioning better (Kendall herself in the recent dwp committee acknowledged these things will take time to do (properly))
I’ve got family coming over tomorrow so I may not get around to my usual screenshots and highlighting till the evening (though I’m very aware with the potential inflammatory headlines from certain media I’m not sure how calm and open to reason/logic some scope members may be
I’ve had many thoughts on both the white paper and upcoming reforms but on threads like this one I’m trying to bite my tongue and stay open minded to any fair ideas from either side
Links from Albus_scope;
press release;
Policy paper;
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/get-britain-working-white-paper
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Hi @apple85 Thank you for doing this for us. It must take up a lot of your time. Lets see what happens. Take care.
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I personally think it will have this Youth Guarantee thing in it.
NCS to merge into Job Centres
Give more powers to Mayors with employment support programs tailored to their areas.
I saw something a few backs of hinting of a new program, where the DWP find jobs for disabled people, and they support them to stay in that job with specialised support workers.
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If anyone’s able to give a ‘factual’ summary of what’s in the White Paper I’d be grateful?
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Paper details will be unveiled later today - I'm sure someone will provide us with a summary in due course. Media reports suggest the focus is squarely on improving work opportunities and job creation while benefit reform has been kicked down the road. The devil will be in the detail.
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I will also be interested in the white paper proposals, from my understanding it is going to be focused on getting 5he young into work
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I suspect it will be similar to this press release they put out
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The Tories are criticising them for "not making tough decisions on sickness benefits"
So - that looks good then!
Holding my breath till after next spring though, they did say they would talk about PIP then.
Can relax for Christmas now at least, unless something horrible is hidden in the small print, but given the Tory attacks, it looks like it might be good news.
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This is exactly why I can’t believe so many people are promoting signing a petition to call a general election. If they think Labour is bad, the Tories don’t care about the disabled AT ALL! It would be so much worse under them. People need to be careful what they wish for.
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Alison McGovern was on Good morning Britain earlier, she said anything about sickness and disability is next year and they've announced they WILL do a consultation first and listen.
so for now they are just after the youngsters who may be able to work and revamping JCP and trying to sort NHS.
So please have confidence, relax if possible and have an absolutely lovely upcoming festive season.
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2025 we will find out dwp said changes shocking
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Read and Digest:
Starmer has it. Things WILL Change! Good PM, you know when you have a good one, the best PM.
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They are probably the same people who voted for Tories or Reform in the GE, or thereabouts. People who wanted the status quo for whatever reason. The same people who made such a fuss about not redoing the Brexit vote now wanting a fresh election because they didn't win the last one…slightly ironic. Never mind.
Speaking of irony, Mel Stride getting all hot under the collar about the winter fuel allowance cut and "abandoning vulnerable people"…after everything he said about disabled people in the lead up to the election.
I hope this White Paper will actually be positive rather than negative. I do still worry about PIP changes down the line, but I think right now the most important thing is to resolve what is happening with WCA and the UC migration (to make sure people don't lose money and aren't being bullied into work searching unfairly). Putting emphasis on getting people who are fit to work back into work opportunities doesn't seem like a bad thing, if the jobs exist. We'll see.
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Silence on changes to the Work Capability Assessment - which is ominous ( or perhaps not ) given that that is where we were told 'savings' would be found - but the communication around ill health / disability ( particularly mental ill health ) 'appears' to have softened.
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If the press release is exactly the same things as the white paper, with the exception of the WCA. I see nothing wrong whatsoever with Labour's proposals.
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Kendall quote from press release today.
"The Get Britain Working White Paper shows that this Government stands unashamedly for work. We will make sure everyone, regardless of their background, age, ethnicity, health, disability or postcode can benefit from the dignity and purpose work can bring."
This reads as everyone has to find work regardless of youe disability or health,no?
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Now look up the views of the Conservative or Reform, because that’s a lot worse.
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Thanks for sharing @TheManFromLondon it's some good food for thought.
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I've just read a passage on the White paper on the Government site the gist of which said it was going to tackle preventing people from getting ill in the first place!!!!!!! Really, good luck with that 😡
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ridiculous isn't it? I was born with most of mine
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So has it be released yet ?
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