Councils are looking for more imaginative ways of raising revenue and reducing costs. But punitive sanctions – such as reducing benefits if overweight people refuse to exercise – will only forfeit public trust Read more
Pitting one set of benefit claimants against another is a dangerous game. What’s needed is a welfare system that is fairer all round Read more
For the Treasury, the Universal Credit is looking like an unaffordable vanity project, at a time when squeezing £10bn from benefits would come in handy. IDS disagrees Read more
Better use of data could save the country billions of pounds but the government needs more senior IT specialists and knowledge managers across departments to make this happen Read more
There has been much discussion about the report into public sector pay that Policy Exchange published this week. Read more
Getting more unemployed people into work is a key aim of coalition government policy, and the Work Programme, combined with an overhaul of the benefit system, is believed to be the vehicle to make this happen. Read more...
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