Jobcentre Plus: A Memorandum to the Work and Pensions Select Committee from One Parent Families

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November 2005 Jobcentre Plus is the key delivery agency for the Government's target to have 70 per cent of lone parents in work by 2010. There has been substantial progress towards this target, with 56.6 per cent of lone parents now in work, compared to 46.6 per cent in 1998, when the New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP) was introduced. However, for the target to be met, in the next five years, the lone parent employment rate needs to rise three times as fast as it did in the previous five.

We are currently seriously concerned about the ability of Jobcentre Plus to deliver this sustained increase, given the impact of the reduced financial settlement for the Department for Work and Pensions in the 2004 Spending Review, and the targets for job reduction within the agency. Giving evidence to this committee in February, the then Secretary of State Alan Johnson outlined these as follows: "By the end of this financial year we plan to have 122,444 staff, by the end of the next financial year 2005/06 to be down to 111,296 staff, by 06/07 106,592 and by 07/08 to 100,000..."

We are already starting to see the impact of these reduced resources; this submission outlines particular areas of concern, including resources for training, the role of personal advisers, the future of the Building on New Deal programme, and planned IT work within the agency.

Download the Memorandum below.

Jobcentre Plus Memorandum 03/11/05 (PDF 20KB)

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