Sentences with phrase «welfare system reform»

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.

In addition, an aspect of various child welfare system reform initiatives is supporting the system's infrastructure to be able to implement fairly global policy changes (e.g. Family to Family program, Families for Kids program, public - private partnerships).

Not exact matches

The ambitious effort to shrink federal assistance has been dubbed «Welfare Reform 2.0», after Bill Clinton's overhaul of the welfare system in 1996.

«Work is the best means of providing people with financial security, and with our welfare reforms people are moving into employment faster and staying there longer than under the old system.»

When the Church (or at least the U.S. bishops conference) pronounces on public policy specifics» welfare reform, medical delivery systems, or armaments strategy, for examples» the Catholic house divides the other way.

If we are to avoid job - destroying minimum wage hikes, we need to reform our tax and welfare system to make work a better deal through wage subsidies to low - earners, and making work avoidance more difficult.

Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

«Implementation of these reforms, along with ongoing evaluation of export processes and identification of further opportunities for improvement may assist the Department of Agriculture to develop a more efficient and cost effective system for ensuring welfare of exported livestock,» the report said.

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

The first is that all Cameron and his government are doing, particularly in their reform of the welfare system, is attempting to reset things along the lines of their original remit.

Reforms to the welfare system announced today will not result in any deserving claimants becoming worse off, Iain Duncan Smith has pledged.

At the same time, large - scale reforms to the health, education and welfare systems — along with reductions in youth service provision and the number and services of children's centres — means confusion and real concern for professionals and families alike.

The research suggested politicians should be looking at the following: continued welfare reform, with a particular emphasis on developing a contributory system; keeping taxes as low as people believe are possible to deliver high quality services; avoiding punishing people for things they can not possibly do without like driving or buying and selling houses; more proportionate sentencing; and restricting so - called health tourism.

Balls says the welfare system should be reformed.

With large numbers who think the system wasteful through misplaced generosity or fraud, the opposition risks looking irresponsible if it opposes welfare reforms too loudly.

Reforms of the welfare system including a replacement of the incapacity benefit and «more responsibility» for claimants have been announced by the government.

On the second, they're convinced that the welfare system is too generous and needs reform.

Rebel MPs are not opposed to the principle of reforming the welfare system but are worried about its roll - out: claimants are having to wait up to six weeks for their benefits, leaving many unable to buy food and pushed into debt and rent arrears.

It is essential to reform welfare to bring down a «wall of scepticism» among voters who don't believe that politicians will make the system fairer, he will argue.

We want to help poor people so we will start the welfare system and we operate the welfare system and there are all sorts of criticism about the welfare system and then thirty years later, someone stands up and says the welfare system doesn't work and we need welfare reform.

«I think the current welfare system does need reform and I don't disagree on the principles with which the Government is working, but it can not be at the cost of casting people into destitution,» he added.

«He has used the words «welfare reform» as an excuse for dismantling our social security system over the last six years.

Similarly, their opposition to welfare reform means a continued jab in the eye for hard workers who see some earn more than them through the benefits system.

... for wasting billions on an NHS IT system that is billions over budget... for failing to reform welfare... for allowing Gordon Brown to impose a record tax burden... for presiding over massive family breakdown... for failing to build enough prisons to stem Britain's rising violent crime... for incompetence in Iraq... for surrendering to Sinn Fein... for ignoring moderate Muslim leaders in Britain... for releasing 1,000 foreign prisoners... for the Millennium Done...

We are determined to reform our welfare system too, so that it rewards those who do the right thing.

In a painfully methodical fashion, Gove rattled off odes to Jeremy Hunt and the Department of Health, Ian Duncan Smith and the Department of Work and Pensions - «the welfare system is being reformed not to save money, but to save lives» — Theresa May and the Home Office, before finally singing the praises of Chris Grayling and the Department of Justice.

«Iain Duncan Smith is right to be looking at the perverse incentives in the current system, but with the welfare bill so high, cutting the deficit requires more radical reform.»

«Without reform» Mr Osborne said, Britain's welfare system «is financially unaffordable and morally indefensible».

Speaking in Somerset yesterday, David Cameron said: «It's a simple and straight choice, at your county council and at the next election, between the blue team who want to keep getting the deficit down, who want to keep reforming immigration and welfare to make it fair, or you have the red team who put the deficit up and who don't care if our immigration and welfare system works at all.»

«We'd get lower taxes, we'd get a more efficient welfare system [and] we'd get more support for our school reforms.»

Perhaps you should put aside ambitious ideas such as dramatically reforming the welfare system until you have had time to learn how the US works.

We are all agreed on the urgent need to reform the welfare system and help more people into work and off benefits.»

«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.»

He said if that indeed was the case, «don't we need Iain Duncan Smith to get on reforming the welfare system and ensuring you're always better off in work than out of it?»

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

The SNP would junk all attempts to reform the welfare system — even though they have the support of most voters in this country, and indeed most Labour voters.

The party's agenda in making reform of the welfare system the centrepiece of its autumn conference in Manchester is being overshadowed by apparent uncertainty over whether a retrospective referendum on the Lisbon treaty should take place if it is ratified.

Most would agree that the reforms» ultimate aims — to simplify the welfare system and «make work pay» — are laudable.

In a speech arguing for major reform to the welfare system, the Prime Minister said the current system encouraged «papering over the cracks», instead of making the «fundamental reforms» needed.

Stopping abuse of the welfare system, complicated as it is, must be matched by wide - ranging reform.

Elisa's death on Thanksgiving weekend in 1995 attracted broad attention — prompting a national conversation about child abuse, a wave of reforms to the city's child welfare system, and a child welfare law named in her honor.

• Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times (subscription) says that although the government is succeeding at cutting the welfare bill, its attempts to reform the welfare system could fail.

Always rooted in the wisdom of frontline poverty - fighters this year's published research includes the importance of the earliest years for child development, the breakdown of systems for children - in - care, Britain's asylum shambles, social housing and welfare reform.

Within the centre right, I think most people agree that the welfare system is in serious need of reform.

The PvdA and the GreenLeft however also announced that they wanted to reform part of the economy and welfare system.

That is where the blame lies — at the door of our woeful welfare system and the last government who comprehensively failed to reform it.»

Real - estate millionaire Carl Paladino, the somewhat surging Republican gubernatorial primary opponent to the party - backed Rick Lazio, has some interesting ideas about how to reform the welfare system, including an optional program in which welfare recipients would go live in converted prisons while they work for the state.

Mr Duncan Smith pioneered welfare reforms under David Cameron, including the introduction of Universal Credit to sweep away the complicated benefits system.

The BBC has learned that the overspend on the the governments flagship welfare reform programme could rise further, as # 162m has been invested on new hardware and software, in addition to the # 34m on IT systems.