DWP providing voluntary help to people on LCWRA.
The DWP have just announced the redeployment of 1,000 specialist Jobcentre staff to help those on sickness benefits.
These Jobcentre staff will provide voluntary help to people on Universal Credit with no requirement to look for work or engage with job help because of their condition.
The work coaches – known as Pathways to Work advisers – are now based in every Jobcentre in England, Wales, and Scotland
They will work with claimants to overcome barriers to work and support them by signposting them to additional employment and skills services, such as IT and HGV driving, Government funded Connect to Work support, or on the job training in some key sectors including construction and hospitality.
More information can be found in the press notice, see the link below:
Ramped up job support for people on sickness benefits - GOV.UK
Some of you may have already received messages on your UC journals. Please don't panic, this is totally voluntary on your part. You do not need to take part if you do not want to.
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It's as though the DWP itself doesn't know what LCWRA actually means, which is you're not well enough to go to the JC for work related activity.
What next brick laying classes for people who are bedbound?
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Hi @Ross1975. The scheme is completely voluntary so no-one would be pressured into it. People with severe and lifelong health conditions will not be contacted.
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I welcome this scheme, but I think the DWP need to make it much clearer that the scheme is voluntary as you mention.
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They do say it's voluntary a few times @MarshmallowSpy but unfortunately it looks like the media are failing to mention it more, as it's better for clicks if they don't. Which is a big shame, as it's just going to spread more fear and mistrust.
"Behind the effort is the redeployment of 1,000 existing Jobcentre staff who will provide voluntary help to people on Universal Credit with no requirement to look for work or engage with job help because of their condition – the first ever national offer to support this group."
"The offer is voluntary and will be made to LCWRA claimants via their Universal Credit journal with tailored appointments taking place monthly. More than 10,000 people have taken up the offer so far, with thousands more expected over the coming weeks. Those with the most severe and lifelong health conditions, and those treated under Special Rules End of Life will not be contacted."2 -
One of our local councillors is saying that long term sickness is job evasion , horrible man.
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How out of touch and a degrading comment made by mcfadden
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I have to say hello to all, I am afraid I have been other wise engaged off site with issues that are now coming to a head. The realignment of what is a job centre and what it is actually their for seems to be a bit beyond there comprehension. A job centre before they closed 800 branches around the country was to save money? I am afraid they need to read their own charters and Laws/Acts that surround the Disability and long term sick assessment process. Since errors have been creeping back into the system via the assessment process for access to benefits because 'grey' allowed interpretation of these documents when the Pandemic changed the way access to help both financial and medical changed, but were never reviewed or rescinded and reverted back to 'plan A' these changes suddenly gave powers beyond the normal remit of a decision maker.
I will write about this in a different post. later.
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Good grief the words help and DWP are not synonymous in any way. The way they treat claimants is shocking and they're only a hop skip and a jump away from claiming themselves.
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Is this voluntary by DWP staff volunteering to help or Voluntary in that recipents don't have to do it ?
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Recipients don't have to do it.
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Voluntary as in recipients don't have to take part at this time.
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Last thing we need when we go to the doctors
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I can never get an appointment!
All e consult, and phone calls
Last thing people will want is advisors when they want to see a gp
If you want advice then go to the appropriate place, not gp
Advisors have recently said getting sick/disabled people back into work is difficult as employees don’t have things in place, also who wants to take on ill people who have been out of work, likely to be off for health reasons, appointments etc, I know, as I have been in that situation
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I'm not unemployed, I'm unable to work.
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They are also putting these advisers in local GP surgeries from next year, on a voluntary basis, so they say. I'm going to put a note in my journal telling them my own gp has signed my ill health retirement forms for my personal pension, stating that I'm never going to be able to work again due to the severity of my mental health conditions.
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They actually allow patients to visit the actual doctor? I was just thinking the advisers won't get much footfall in there these days!
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The so-called advisors might not need us to have an appointment with our GP for them to see us. They might directly contact us and give us an appointment at our respective GP surgeries.
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It's voluntary.
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Then, that's fine.
What the DWP should do to help those who are willing to work is doing what Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands do. Their work coaches search for jobs, or training/ apprenticeship that secure employment at the end. They liaise with employers themselves and follow the progress of jobseekers to make sure they stay in work. While in the UK all these advisers do is to provide help with CV writing and job preparation and send people to dodgy training centres that claim to be providing employment skills, even though there's a wide array of CV templates of all sorts are available free of charge on the internet and tantamount of job preparation tutorials on YouTube.
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