#Media comment on #HelpTtoWork| This is going to make a bad situation worse @scvotweet @Number10gov @DWPgovuk Following the launch of the Help to Work scheme today, Martin Sime, chief executive, SCVO said: “ SCVO has consistently opposed this kind of #mandatory activity that forces people to do #unpaid work or face unfair #sanctions. It’s particularly harmful at a time when many people are already in hardship because of unprecedented #BenefitsCuts. “The so-called “Help to Work” programme is only going to make a bad situation worse. The vast majority of #unemployed people need and want a real job. #Punishing them for something they have little or no control over is pointless and damaging. “Approaches like this are demeaning, counterproductive and undermine genuine #volunteering. There are so many better ways to help unemployed people. “We need to see more initiatives like Community Jobs Scotland, which has already created more than 4,550 paid jobs for young unemployed people in charities and third sector organisations across #Scotland.”
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:25:52 +0000
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