This new Demos report sets out how institutions beyond the DWP could deliver employment support to ill and disabled people.
Report recommendations
- Devolved assemblies should gain full responsibility for providing employment support to ill and disabled people.
- Local authorities and NHS trusts should gain full responsibility for delivering welfare-to-work programmes for ill and disabled people for a trial period.
- The DWP should explore new commissioning models which move beyond a 'payment-by-results' approach for third sector organisations.
- Government should exempt those in the ESA WRAG group from conditionality.
- Government should introduce a 'three strikes’ warning system before sanctions are applied for Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants.
- The DWP should launch a ‘co- production unit’ committed to involving these techniques in the delivery of their services.
- The DWP should trial awarding groups of ill and disabled people shared ‘personal budgets’ for co-designed employment support.