Sentences with phrase «of jobcentres»

There are around 320 employment offices, which are the equivalent of jobcentres in the UK.

But Britain's national network of jobcentres is currently undergoing radical change as the government implements multiple welfare reforms and cuts as part of its continued austerity drive.

The already intense pressure on a shrinking network of jobcentres will increase further in 2019 when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will begin moving millions of existing benefit claimants onto Universal Credit.

In practice, benefit cuts have weakened work incentives and simplification, while more working age claimants are being pushed towards a smaller network of jobcentres.

Since the 1970s, the logo, layout and operating procedures of jobcentres have changed markedly.

«Universal Credit is rolling out successfully and is available in 95 % of jobcentres with over 32,000 people making a claim to it last month.»

The union is hosting a public meeting this evening (13) against the closure of the jobcentre in Camberwell, south London.

Not exact matches

The area was due to move to a «full service» of Universal Credit in July but that was put on hold until October to allow local jobcentre staff to focus on claims from survivors of Grenfell.

We have already seen the damaging impact of so called efficiency programmes on key areas such as tax, Jobcentres, justice and defence.

I mean I have travelled round so many Jobcentres talked to so many of them.

Those of us who regularly attend housing and jobcentre meetings see this too often.

It is also unfair to ask jobcentre staff, who are already overstretched because of cuts, to police decisions about who should have their benefits cut.

«For years our union has been at the forefront of the tax justice campaign, and we are proud to support UK Uncut that has popularised our message that the real fraudsters and the real scroungers are to be found in the boardrooms not in the jobcentres.

Perhaps, but it's not often you see the ex-wife of a top banker queuing up at the jobcentre to claim benefits or the former partner of a politician or lawyer waiting outside a food bank.

3.15 pm Public Accounts Subject: Responding to changes in jobcentres and National Audit Office Estimates 2013/14 Witness (es): Katie Shaw, Head of Welfare Policy, Citizens Advice; Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions and Neil Couling, Work Services Director, Department for Work and Pensions; Amyas Morse, Comptroller and Auditor General, National Audit Office and Michael Whitehouse, Chief Operating Officer, National Audit Office.

The rollout of the so - called «full service» across the UK will start this month for all new claimants in jobcentres in Newcastle upon Tyne, Lowestoft, Rugby, Bath, and Bridgewater, and will take more than two years to complete.

It announced it had reached the «historic milestone» of making UC available to single claimants in every UK jobcentre and was preparing a phased rollout to all claimants, including families with children.

Universal Credit attracted widespread support because it was originally designed to simplify the benefit system and improve work incentives, with a new cadre of frontline jobcentre work coaches assisting more claimants to prepare for and seek work.

By the end of 2018, most new working age claimants in Britain, will be claiming Universal Credit — and many of them will be required to attend jobcentres.

Between 2016 and 2018, over 100 jobcentres — about 15 % of the network — will have closed.

Then, between 2002 and 2006, under the New Labour government, some 1,500 previously separate jobcentres and benefit agency offices were integrated into a network of 800 Jobcentre Plus (JCP) offices.

Translation services are available in all Jobcentres while local councils provide information leaflets in dozens of different languages.

The government also said one fifth of civil servants - fewer than 90,000 workers - had been on strike and that 717 Jobcentres had been unaffected.

Jobcentre Plus, better known as «the jobcentre», is an employment agency with offices all over the country providing job search advice, personalised coaching and lists of current vacancies.