This Commons Libray briefing paper gives an overview of the Permitted Work rules, which allow people in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) to do some paid work without it affecting their benefits.
DWP's Dynamic Purchasing System is used to purchase local support for individuals and groups of customer. The attached presentation describes how it works.
Providers must register at http://bravosolution.co.uk and upload a Pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) before submitting details of their offer. It is recomended that providers seeking to upload Supported Employment as a single intervention enter it as one of the routeway provisions.
This report examines activity, waiting times and outcomes in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme from 1st April 2015 to 31st March 2016.
IAPT is run by the NHS in England and offers NICE-approved therapies for treating people with depression or anxiety.
There were 953,000 people who entered treeatment but only 396 people received employment support (low intensity) asnd only 57 people received high intensity employment support.
Public Health England has published a briefing for local enterprise partnerships on health and work, worklessness and economic growth.
The briefing is for decision-makers in local enterprise partnerships (LEP) who are developing local economic strategies. It summarises the potential contribution of health with employment and economic growth, and proposes effective ways to tackle these issues. It focuses on people: in employment with health conditions; at risk of falling out of work and onto welfare benefits; or with health conditions not in employment who are receiving benefits.
Since April 2014, unemployed people leaving the Work Programme (the Government’s main welfare-to-work scheme) are required to participate in Help to Work. Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants who have not secured lasting employment after two years on the Work Programme will be referred to one of three options: • Daily work search reviews – claimants attend the jobcentre daily; • Community Work Placements – claimants undertake work placements of benefit to the local community; • Mandatory Intervention Regime – claimants receive more intensive support from
provide an analysis of the current evidence on disability in the UK to inform the development of the next stage of work on Fulfilling Potential – the development of actions, outcomes and indicators
Progress report on supporting disabled people to fulfil their potential (includes data to financial year 2014/15). The Fulfilling Potential outcomes and indicators framework aims to measure progress, over time, against the aim of supporting disabled people to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. This is the second annual Fulfilling Potential outcomes and indicators framework progress report and associated data files (data to financial year 2014/15).
The Government has published evaluations of two IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) pilot schemes. 1. Evaluation of the Telephone Support Psychological Wellbeing and Work Feasibility Pilot In 2013 RAND (Europe) in their report on Psychological Wellbeing and Work: Improving Service Provision and Outcomes recommended a pilot of a telephone-based intervention (Telephone Support).
In the summer of 2014, the Department for Education (DfE) commissioned Isos Partnership to undertake research into SEN funding arrangements and practices. The aim of this research was to provide insights into the way funding for young people with SEN is spent, the reasons for differences between spending patterns in different local authorities, and the options for changing the ways in which high-needs funding is distributed in future. The report provides an analysis of how well the current SEN funding system is working and suggests ways in which it might be improved in future.
