Charities fear welfare-to-work plans will hurt beneficiaries

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 24 July 2008

Charities that bid to run proposed back-to-work services could find themselves having to impose sanctions on their beneficiaries, a disability charity has warned.

The Department for Work and Pensions this week published the welfare green paper No one Written Off: Reforming Welfare to Reward Responsibility , which puts forward a raft of radical proposals for overhauling the benefit system. The measures include forcing the long-term unemployed into doing full-time community work courses to...