Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Welfare reform

At tomorrow's conference on welfare reform (at Rhondda Heritage Park Hotel 10 - 4 if you are interested) we will be looking at the prospects of achieving the government's targets (in a word, nil). But with the reforms pressing ahead, there will also be calls for the Welsh assembly government to set up a task group to look at what needs to done here, not least to join up all the different aspects of the changes with key issues such as childcare, transport and learning. Watch this space

1 comments:

Robert said...

I'm disabled I went to the new Deal for the disabled,Labour party phoned me up and said as a disabled activist we feel it should be a priority for you to look for work and Blog about it. I went down to the job center and was told at the moment we are sending people to Remploy or the Shaw trust both these people are fine at finding work for people when jobs are plentiful, if you have a problem finding jobs they just pick three jobs from the job center computer and tell you to look at these. I'm a wheelchair user most of the time, jobs i was told to go after, long distance lorry driver, window cleaner taxi driver, none of these I could do. for a year then I was told they had nothing.

Then the job center took over helping me, I saw my helper my adviser they are called DEA's. I was just handed three jobs and told chase these, window cleaning,Taxi driving, lorry drivers, all things I cannot do and it's been like this ever since, what help do they have for me, answer none, work experience I was told nobody is interested and thats it.