Pathways to results
On the day that IDS announces his policies for welfare reform, involving elements of workfare (previously piloted by the last government), here’s a link to some previous musings on this and the strange situation we are moving towards where unemployment is rife but those who are ‘work-shy’ and those on community sentences may be busy doing compulsory unpaid work that might otherwise attract a salary. I assume the benefits claimants will get to wear different coloured fluorescent jackets so as to distinguish them from the crims.
There is another point to make on this, however. The ‘pathways to work’ pilots that Labour initiated, which also involved compulsory work, have proved to be less than successful. Currently these are the only fully piloted examples in government of the payment by results method which the Coalition is putting so much store in, and which will likely be rolled out across probation.
Given payment by results in welfare has thus far failed to deliver, um, results, this is not exactly an augury of success.
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Perhaps in 1979 we felt a little too safe and secure, what with the arrival of the new Conservative government and the prospect of limitless wealth from the North Sea. The nation(s) relaxed as millions of us decided to take it easy for a while.
Quite why the banking crisis should have provoked a similar outbreak of idleness is a mystery.