| Synopsis: |
DWP Commissioning Strategy (Cm. 7330) is the first stage in taking forward the welfare reforms outlined in "Ready to Work: Full Employment in Our Generation (Cm. 7290)" (ISBN 9780101729024). The strategy implements the proposals from the March 2007 report by David Freud "Reducing Dependency, Increasing Opportunity: Options for the Future of Welfare to Work" (available to download below).The DWP will award welfare-to-work contracts to organizations in the public, private, and voluntary sectors in Great Britain and those organizations will have to offer jobseekers more creative and innovative ways of helping them to overcome their specific problems. An increasingly significant proportion of the rewards paid to these specialist providers will be paid when someone has been in work for at least six months in the first instance, rising potentially to 18 months further down the line. In return, providers will be rewarded with longer and larger contracts lasting 5-7 years. An annex contains the DWP code of conduct listing the key values and principles of behavior which will expected of providers. |