Sentences with phrase «welfare reforms plans»

If the government is acting confidently, it is because it knows it has significant public backing for its welfare reforms plans.

Osborne whose welfare reform plans were defeated in the House of Lords on Monday night said the bedrock of economic security was a «country that lives within its means».

The welfare reform plans, based on a report by the city financier David Freud, have been in the pipeline for some time.

Work and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith has refuted claims by the National Audit Office that the government's flagship welfare reform plan has been badly managed and is «overambitious».

Not exact matches

The Chancellor George Osborne, in his first Budget, outlined plans for a radical reform of the welfare system.

The government has hailed Mr Duncan Smith's plans as the most significant reforms since the welfare state was introduced.

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

Like the welfare reform bill before it, the Housing and Planning bill appears to be based more on ideology than on actually seeking to tackle the country's social and economic problems.

Iain Duncan Smith, welfare reform minister, defends plans to cap benefits in a series of media interviews

«Ten things you need to know about historic Tory plans for welfare reform Main David Cameron wraps himself, his Party and his Government in the Union Flag»

But the final document confirmed such plans as raising income tax for the top 5 % of earners to fund greater spending on the NHS, reversing a great many of the Conservative's welfare reforms, and re-nationalising the railways.

So our plans for school reform, welfare reform and strengthening families plans which might once have been seen as just socially desirable in the age of austerity become economically essential.

Many of the welfare reforms and reductions are likely to prove temporary as Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is developing plans for a radical «universal credit» which will replace all out - of - work benefits over the next decade.

Along with our welfare reforms and our Children's Plan, it is part of a revolution in learning and life chances that can finally help unlock all the talents of all young people.

The full details are not yet available but newspapers are already going online - reporting Tory plans to reform welfare.

Peers have rejected the government's plans to prevent benefit claimants receiving more than # 26,000 a year, handing the coalition's welfare reforms another big setback.

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No 10 had feared that Duncan Smith, who has strong doubts about the welfare elements of the prime minister's EU reform plan, would seek to ask his officials to assess the credibility of the plan.

Duncan Smith has made clear that the introduction of the universal credit is essential to his reform plans, and will bring long - term savings as the overall welfare bill falls.

«Through our welfare reforms — a key element in our long - term economic plan — we are eliminating wasteful spending and restoring fairness to the benefits system.»

The money saved would help Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, to implement his radical plans to reform the welfare system.

Field has been an enemy of Brown's ever since Brown in practice ended Field's career as welfare reform minister in the early days of the Blair government by vetoing his plans for benefit reform and Field launched a highly personal attack on Brown last year.

Chancellor George Osborne has defended his plans to push on with plans to reform tax credits despite opposition, saying the «worst thing you could do for families is have unlimited welfare».

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), condemned Conservative plans on welfare reform today warning that they risked taking the welfare state back to the Victorian era.

Liz Kendall has said that welfare reform is necessary but refused to state whether she supported the recently announced Conservative government plan to cut # 3bn of welfare spending.

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Prime minister forced to defend coalition welfare reforms as Labour seizes on minister's admission that plan may need revision

Campaigners against the welfare reforms, led by the centre - left pressure Compass and unions including Unison and the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said: «Many of the plans were unacceptable when they were first published and the worsening economic situation should lead to a fundamental rethink.»

The plans, which date from 2012, were part of a discussion paper on welfare reform circulated among senior cabinet ministers.

Liz Kendall says that welfare reform is necessary but refuses to state whether she supports the recently announced Conservative plan to cut # 3bn of welfare spending.

«We have the boldest welfare reforms and deficit - reduction plans in Europe.

«We have no further plans to make welfare savings beyond the very substantial savings legislated for by parliament two weeks ago,» Crabb said in a statement to MPs confirming that the government would drop controversial reforms to personal independence payments (PIP).

The government clarified the remarks by stressing that there were no plans to fill the # 4.4 bn gap caused by dropping PIP reforms with further cuts in welfare spending.

Although some of his proposals have been dismissed as too radical and unrealistic, his plans for welfare reform are understood to be highly respected by the Prime Minister.

Yes, the welfare, education and planning reforms will enhance long - term competitiveness but British business needs help now.

The National Center on Education and the Economy, which developed the plan, compares the wave of innovation that could result from such an initiative to the sweeping experimentation in welfare reform that states engaged in prior to...

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The Legal Reform Project worked with the Edmonton Social Planning Council exploring ways for SLS to assist in their welfare advocacy.

The Permanency Barriers Project has focused on reforms such as: the early identification of children's needs; refining court procedures in permanency planning areas; training the child welfare agency and legal staff; and sharing information with other counties and states.

Collaboration Between State Welfare and Child Welfare Agencies Urban Institute (2002) Describes organizational restructuring to implement provisions of welfare reform and facilitate coordinated case planning, information sharing, and co-location of services.

Empowering families to take leadership roles and contribute to decision - making and program planning is key to ensuring that child welfare system reform efforts will ultimately improve outcomes for the children and families being served.

By Kellie Bisset Reclaiming the policy debate Will the national reform summit, planned for next month by peak bodies in the welfare, ageing,... Read more

Child Welfare Organizing Project A parent / professional partnership dedicated to public child welfare reform in New York City through increased, meaningful parent involvement in service and policy planning.

King County System Integration Initiative: Reform to Impact Dual Jurisdiction Youth and Families (PDF - 800 KB) Child Welfare League of America The Link: Connecting Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare, 4 (2), 2005 Outline the goals of KC - SII, the scope of the project, mobilization and planning, data collection and analysis, resource assessment and inventory, action strategy development, and implementation to improve the coordination and integration of the child welfare and juvenile justice programs and policy development in King County, WA.

Improving the Performance and Outcomes of Child Welfare Through State Program Improvement Plans (PIPS): The Real Opportunity of the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of PIPs.

Usher, C.L., Gibbs, D.A., & Wildfire, J. B. (1995) A framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating child welfare reforms.