Sentences with phrase «welfare system works»

How the child welfare system works.

An effective child welfare system works to ensure that children grow up in safe, permanent, and loving homes while strengthening families and minimizing trauma through timely and appropriate action.45 Researchers believe that societal attitudes and lack of knowledge regarding children with disabilities place them at greater risk for abuse and neglect.

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.»

«To stop UK hunger we must make sure the welfare system works fairly and compassionately, stopping people getting to a point where they have no money to eat.»

Not exact matches

Among other things, Froman will work with governments around the world on strategic projects ranging from South Africa's welfare benefits distribution system to touchless payments on the London tube.

In social policy, the Party is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty by developing a «living wage» policy that is sufficient to allow workers to support their families; make changes to the welfare system to encourage people on social assistance to move beyond poverty, such as allowing some benefits to remain until they are firmly established in the workplace; and reviewing the housing component of Alberta Works social assistance to bring it in line with the current reality of the Alberta housing market.

The test, which is to involve 4,000 randomly selected Ontarians, would see the automatic top - up replace Disability and Ontario Works (welfare) payments for those now in the system.

«We have a welfare system that's basically trapping people in poverty and effectively paying people not to work, and we've got to work on that.»

«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.»

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.

Part of that ethos is a welfare system that subsidizes people without obligating them to work.

However, that welfare system should include requirements that able - bodied people transition to work.

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.

It is also true that we must work hard to ensure that the laws which govern our own system protect the public health and welfare and provide aid for those who can not make it on their own.

«Our welfare system provides a vital safety net - spending around # 94 billion in 2014/15 on working age benefits.

The business leaders are forced out of the ownership of their businesses and are expected to continue working giving ALL of their company's profitable gains to the government to distribute through a tremendous welfare system.

Conservatives can be the party that reduces the tax system's bias against working parents, that uses markets to increase the productivity of our enormous health care system, and that transforms our welfare state to make work and family formation a better deal.

They consider what approaches to welfare best preserve incentives to work and save, or what type of banking system does the best job of getting money from the people who save to those who can put it to productive use.

The welfare system encourages individuals to work at least 16 hours a week — though it has become more complex recently — and there is a big group of people who work exactly 16 hours a week.

Collectively we can work to protect the rights of workers on farms and elsewhere in the food system, and to improve the welfare of animals in agriculture, and to ensure our soils and water are nourished and regenerated.

Because what is taboo in discussing is the private welfare system for women (especially in Marin County — and I know this from the women I have had ONE date with) who do not or have no need to work yet live a comfortable life.

Surveillance effects9 refer to the potential for increased reporting on families who participate in child welfare system services or research because more professionals are working with families and may file reports of suspected abuse and trigger an investigation, increasing the likelihood of a finding for these families compared to those who do not participate.

This issue provides a look into the work of infant mental health specialists in home - based settings, in medical practices, and in the child welfare system.

Chris Grayling has promised to force half a million people off incapacity benefit and into work ahead of a massive upheaval in the welfare system.

As for tightening up the welfare system for those too disabled to work, Dee wants the government to «get realistic... I know someone who is ill, medical professionals say she can't walk, so why are you contradicting them?

Their ongoing welfare series includes reports on rights and responsibilities in the welfare system, personalising employment support, improving conditionality, improving incentives for Jobcentre Plus and how to treat in - work claimants subject to conditionality under universal credit.

Shadow work and pensions secretary Douglas Alexander indicated he was likely to support much of the proposals, telling the Today programme: «If we can move to a benefits system that is simpler and makes it easier for people to move from welfare to work, that's the right thing to do.»

In this view, it was years of neglect that meant that the welfare system failed to keep up with massive social change, meaning that we ended up with a system that failed to properly incentivise work — something that had been central to the original post-war plan.

All welfare - to - work schemes scrapped in favour of a new single system.

Our strategy on the future of work, health and disability brings together employers, the welfare system and health services.

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

But at a time when so many people are struggling, isn't it right that we ask whether those in the welfare system are faced with the same kinds of decisions that working people have to wrestle with when they have a child?

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

Since 1998 LITRG has been working to improve the policy and processes of the tax, tax credits and associated welfare systems for the benefit of those on low incomes.

«The Department of Work and Pensions has a long track record of misusing statistics when it comes to the benefits system, and it's clear this was a tactic to vindicate further welfare cuts,» Parkinson's UK policy advisor Donna O'Brien said.

Holyrood will get the powers to run the benefits system for older people, carers and the disabled and can even create new benefits in devolved areas, but it won't get the chance to change welfare for in - work poverty.

A flexible welfare system would allow thousands access to work and would provide a buffer too.

Stephen Crabb is building on Iain Duncan Smith's work to ensure all the incentives in the welfare system support people into work.

Both IDS and Chris Grayling took more important steps towards a reshaping of the welfare system that makes work pay and focuses help on the genuinely needy.

The work and pensions secretary's universal credit system is the most ambitious welfare project since Beveridge.

Proponents, however, predict that even more people will work, because the current welfare system actively discourages welfare receivers from taking small jobs (if you make less money per month than you get welfare, that money is subtracted from welfare, so you end up with the same amount of income whether you work or not) and that the reason for unemployment is rather lack of jobs than lack of people's motivation to take them.

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.

«Migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open,» he will say, «by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work».

«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.

«There has been too much emphasis on money saving exercises and not enough awareness from the Treasury, in particular, that the government's vision of a new welfare - to - work system could not be repeatedly salami - sliced.

Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, defends major changes to welfare that are coming into force, saying they make the system fairer.

Often, DSS will work with a family involved in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems to utilize services offered at these facilities.

Yet earlier this year Lord Freud, a work and pensions minister, told the House of Lords that food banks were not considered part of the welfare system.

«The fact that there are still five million people on out of work benefits underlines the scale of Britain's welfare challenge and shows that we are right to radically overhaul our welfare system.

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.