Major public meeting on the proposals in the Freud Review which include


*Single parents with children aged over 11 will have to seek jobs or else face potential benefit sanctions,

*increased privatisation with private employment companies offered bounties if they can keep claimants, whether lone parents or others such as those on incapacity benefit, in work for at least three years. Claimants would lose benefits if they left a brokered job before that time

*‘Intensive mentoring’ by involved agencies which could mean advisers pressuring claimants by constantly ringing them up at up home or even visiting them in their homes.

*Greater use of private and voluntary sector resources and expertise so harder-to-help benefit claimants receive more employment support.


PUBLIC MEETING


The PCS Union will be holding a meeting about the Freud Review on the 25th April @ House of Commons, 5-6:30pm.

"We wish to bring together on the platform a range of stakeholders to discuss the current welfare reform proposals and respond to the Freud Report. We also want to use this event as an opportunity to open up a dialogue with fellow organisations and individuals who share our concerns"..

The speakers are -
Paul Dornan from the Child Poverty Action Group, Kevin Flynn Chair of the Unemployed Workers Centres Combine, Ju Gosling Co-Chair of the Trade Union Disability Alliance, Mark Serwotka PCS General Secretary

Terry Rooney MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Parliamentary Select Committee will be chairing the event.

PCS will also be publishing a response to the Freud Report.

contact the PCS Union or email  Louisefeminista@btinternet.com for details