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Chapter 1: The challenge
1 Excludes Incapacity Benefit short-term lower rate claimants.
Chapter 2: Helping ill or disabled people
2 ‘Incapacity benefits’refers to people on contributory Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance and people on means-tested Income Support on the grounds of incapacity.
3 Woodward A, Kazimirskia A, Shaw A, and Pires C, 2003, New Deal for Disabled People. Evaluation. Eligible population survey. Wave one. Interim report, DWP Research Report No. W170, DWP.
4 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003, Transforming disability into ability, policies to promote work and income security for disabled people, OECD.
5 DWP, 2001, The short-term effects of compulsory participation in ONE –Survey of clients: Cohort two Wave one, DWP Research Report No. 156, DWP.
6 The OECD has also said that Pathways to Work is “a considerable success”(OECD, 2005, Economic Survey of the UK) and the IMF commented that the pilots “have been successful”(www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2005/121905.htm).
7 HM Government, 2005, Health, work and well-being –Caring for our future: A strategy for the health and well-being of working-age people, DWP, DH, Health and Safety Executive.
8 Department of Health, 2004, Choosing health: Making healthier choices easier, Cm 6374, DH.
9 Department for Work and Pensions, 2004, Building capacity for work: A UK framework for vocational rehabilitation, DWP.
10 www.hse.gov.uk/businessbenefits/casestudy.htm
11 Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, 2003, Working for health: A long-term workplace strategy for Northern Ireland, HSENI.
12 Confederation of British Industry, 2005, Who cares wins: Absence and labour turnover survey 2005, CBI.
13 Office for National Statistics, 2002, Office for National Statistics: Labour market trends, TSO. The article on trends and sources of data on sickness absence by Barham and Leonard is contained in the April 2002 publication.
14 Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2004, Employee absence 2004: A survey of management policy and practice, CIPD.
15 Confederation of British Industry in association with AXA, 2004, Room for improvement: CBI absence and labour turnover survey 2004, CBI.
16 From 10 days per employee in the Civil Service to 9.1, Cabinet Office analysis of sickness absence in the Civil Service 2004, and in local government from 10 days to 9.5 based on Best Value Performance Indicator returns to the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister.
17 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003, Transforming disability into ability, policies to promote work and income security for disabled people, OECD.
18 Not participating in a medical intervention would not be subject to benefit sanction.
19 Legard R, Lewis J, Hiscock J and Scott J, 2003, Evaluation of capability report: Identifying the work-related capabilities of incapacity benefits claimants, DWP Research Report No. W162, DWP.
20 The exception to this was people eligible for Working Tax Credit, whose linking period was up to two years.
21 Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, joint report with Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health, Department for Education and Skills, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2005, Improving the life chances of disabled people, Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, DWP, DH, DfES, ODPM.
22 Department of Health, 2005, Independence, well-being and choice: Our vision for the future of social care for adults in England, Cm 6499, TSO.
Chapter 3: Helping lone parents
23 HM Treasury, 2004, Choice for parents, the best start for children: A ten year strategy for childcare, The Stationery Office.
24 The Scotland Office, 1998, Meeting the childcare challenge: A childcare strategy for Scotland, Cm 3958.
25 National Assembly for Wales, 2005, Childcare is for children, Department for Education and Training.
26 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005, Babies and bosses: OECD recommendations to help families balance work and family life, OECD.
Chapter 4: Helping older workers
27 It is estimated (in a Cabinet Office report from 2000) that the drop in work rates since 1979 costs the economy £16 billion a year in lost output.
28 Labour Force Survey Spring–Winter 2004 and population projections based on Government Actuary’s Department 2004, GB.
29 Department for Work and Pensions, 2002, Simplicity, security and choice: Working and saving for retirement, Cm 5677, DWP.
30 Pensions Commission, 2004, Pensions: Challenges and choices: The first report of the Pensions Commission; Pensions Commission, 2005, A new pension settlement for the twenty-first century: The second report of the Pensions Commission, Pensions Commission.
Chapter 5: Delivering welfare reform
31. Level 1 –recognises the ability to learn with guidance and supervision, combined with basic knowledge and skills. Includes GCSEs at grades D to G, level 1 NVQs and vocational qualifications.
Level 2 –can be general, vocational or occupational. Provides foundation skills that help people get jobs or progress to further education or advanced-level study. Includes GCSEs at grades A* to C, intermediate GNVQs, level 2 NVQs and vocational qualifications such as Modern Apprenticeships.
Level 3 –provides higher technical, craft or professional skills. Can be general, vocational or occupational. Includes certificates for teaching assistants, A-levels, advanced extension awards and level 3 certificates.
32. HMT, 2005, Skills in the UK: The long-term challenge, TSO.
33. Department of Social Security, 1998, Beating fraud is everybody’s business: Securing the future, Cm 4012, TSO.
34. Department of Social Security, 1999, A new contract for welfare: Safeguarding social security, Cm 4276, TSO.
35. Department for Work and Pensions, 2005, Reducing fraud in the benefit system: Achievements and ambitions, DWP.
Chapter Chapter 6: A radical new approach to Housing Benefit
36. Department for Work and Pensions, 2002, Building choice and responsibility: A radical agenda for Housing Benefit, DWP.
37. Housing Benefit processing times are measured in calendar days from the date the claim is received to the date the decision is made. This includes the time taken by tenants to provide evidence and any time needed for action by third parties. Although performance measures are not strictly comparable, the aggregate performance by local authorities is now equivalent to that delivered by Department for Work and Pensions agencies.
38. These can be found at: www.dwp.gov.uk/housingbenefit/lha/evaluation/index.asp
Chapter 8: Consultation arrangements and contact details
39. Department for Work and Pensions, 2002, Pathways to Work: Helping people into employment, DWP.
