Long-Term unemployed could be forced to help charities

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 22 July 2008

Voluntary organisations could benefit from government proposals to force long-term unemployed people to carry out full-time community work.

Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell unveiled the green paper No One Written Off: Reforming Welfare to Reward Responsibility , which proposes that people who are unemployed for more than two years must take part in a "community work" programme to help get back into employment. The green paper cites...

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