Inclusion's Think Tank

Pathways to What? Making the single work programme work for people on health-related benefits

In its first paper, Inclusion's think tank argues that the Work Programme presents an opportunity for the government to ensure that people with health conditions and/or disabilities are empowered to take ownership of their pathway into work by introducing new ‘Personal Welfare Budgets’. We recommend that the WCA be revised to create a more sophisticated profiling tool, which includes more open questions that better reflect individual responses and a new element which assesses a broader range of ‘employability factors’ (relating to other barriers a person may face to returning to work).