welfare reform

Guardian Letters, Friday 28 October 2011

“I am appalled at John Humphrey's piece on welfare reform Today programme, 27 October 2011. He finished by saying that Beveridge failed to deal with the culture of idleness and this government must deal with the culture of entitlement. What about the right to live free from poverty.

Stop “back to work” profiteers!
Actions against Flexible New Deal

Local Kentish Town & DWP targets for the day:
10-11am outside A4e Insight at 55-57 Holmes Road NW5 3AN. A4e Insight is the “research and consultancy” arm of A4e -- pushing privatisation of public services.
11.30-12.30 outside Jobcentre Plus,178 Kentish Town Road NW5 2BN

* Letter from a breastfeeding mother on income support who is being compelled to attend work-focussed interviews
* Statement by Sheila Kitzinger, breastfeeding campaigner and writer
* Statement from the mother of a child with a disability
* Woman with mental health problems hounded by Jobcentre staff
* Child clinical psychologist OLIVER JAMES on the Welfare Reform Bill
requirements that parents of young children take on waged work.
* From a mother who fled domestic violence

The Guardian Friday 22 May 2009