Ready for work: full employment in our generation

‘Ready for work: full employment in our generation’ sets out the steps the Government will take to reach the long term goals of an 80% employment rate and world class skills.

The paper responds to the ‘In work, better off’ consultation that ran from July to October 2007. It details the steps that will be taken to further reform the welfare system, ensuring that workless people have access to efficient, modern, personalised support, and moving people from being spectators on the margins – passive recipients of benefits – to become active participants – seeking work, improving their skills, and getting on.

Full document

• Ready for work: full employment in our generation (1.95MB)

Separate sections

• Cover (482KB)
• Title (102KB)
• Contents (99KB)
• Foreword (164KB)
• Summary (246KB)
• Chapter 1 Sustainable employment (603KB)
• Chapter 2 Sustainable employment for lone parents (615KB)
• Chapter 3 Sustainable employment for jobseekers (460KB)
• Chapter 4 Sustainable employment for disabled people and people with health conditions (424KB)
• Chapter 5 Sustainable employment for other disadvantaged people (386KB)
• Chapter 6 Delivering sustainable employment (345KB)
• Chapter 7 Principles for reforming the benefits system (328KB)
• Chapter 8 Conclusion (246KB)
• Annex A Summary of consultation responses (504KB)
• Annex B Milestones (278KB)

Large print version

• Ready for work: full employment in our generation – large print (723KB)

Easy read version

• Cover, Contents, What the Minister says (684KB)
• Summary (972KB)
• Chapter 1 Jobs that last (914KB)
• Chapter 2 Jobs for lone parents (993KB)
• Chapter 3 Jobs for job seekers (772KB)
• Chapter 4 Jobs for disabled people and people off work sick (980KB)
• Chapter 5 Jobs for people who find it hard to get work (1MB)
• Chapter 6 Jobs that last (978KB)
• Chapter 7 The benefits system, Chapter 8 Conclusion (735KB)
• Word list (343KB)
• Picture list pages 5–17 (1.04MB)
• Picture list pages 18–27 (970KB)
• Picture list pages 28–38 (1.08MB)
• Picture list pages 39–50 (1.02MB)
• Picture list pages 51–62 (1.14MB)
• Picture list pages 63–76 (1.24MB)

Impact assessment

• Impact assessment (665KB)

Flexible New Deal evidence paper

‘Ready to work: full employment in our generation’, sets out proposals for a flexible New Deal to provide personalised back-to-work support to people unemployed for 12 months. The flexible New Deal will be supported by an improved Jobseeker’s Allowance regime that offers more support to people the longer they are unemployed.

The flexible New Deal evidence paper brings together independently commissioned research and internal analysis of the employment support for jobseekers in the UK. The paper sets out the evidence underlying, and supporting, the improved Jobseeker’s Allowance and flexible New Deal design.

• Flexible New Deal evidence paper (965KB)

The challenges facing DWP in the future: Deliberative research with the public

This is a research report that explores views of members of the public about major challenges facing DWP. The research comprised a series of deliberative workshops across Great Britain. Respondents had a strong attachment to the welfare state and a very work-centred view of welfare. They shared the Government’s views on getting people off benefits and into work. Participants had limited knowledge of the challenges but felt that DWP had a good story to tell, helping people on a daily basis.

• The challenges facing DWP in the future: Deliberative research with the public

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