The Watershed Week for Skills, Education & Employment | FE Soundbite 789
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 789: 22th March 2025 | The Watershed Week for Skills, Education & Employment This is the weekly e-newsletter and e-journal…
Welfare Reform
Reforming the ‘benefit trap’ to offer more support to disabled people could help half a million more people into work by 2035
The benefit system is trapping 3.5 million people on sickness benefits – many of whom want to work – in a dead end of too…
£240 million ‘Get Britain Working’ package from Chancellor to include work, skills and health support for disabled people and long-term sick
Chancellor, Rachel Reeves MP: “We will build a Britain where those who can work, will work” Ahead of the Budget, the Chancellor has unveiled a…
How will Labour Transform our Employability Services?
The Labour Party’s return to power marks a significant opportunity to transform the UK’s approach to employability services and welfare policy. Central to Labour’s vision…
Welfare Reform: ‘Tougher sanctions regimes are only going to work with enhanced employment support ‘
Commenting on the Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride’s plan for major welfare changes, REC (@RECmembers) Deputy Chief Executive Kate Shoesmith said: “Growth comes from…
The ‘mini budget’ will provide some relief, but not for long
In his ‘mini-budget’ statement to the House of Commons last Friday, the new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng set out his The Growth Plan 2022. The Chancellor’s statement…
