Stef Benstead
@stefbenstead.bsky.social
Christian interested in socio-economic justice.
Chronically ill with hEDS, PoTS, fibro/Small Fibre Neuropathy.
Independent (unpaid) researcher in chronic illness and social policy.
Books: Second Class Citizens; Just Worship.
Chronically ill with hEDS, PoTS, fibro/Small Fibre Neuropathy.
Independent (unpaid) researcher in chronic illness and social policy.
Books: Second Class Citizens; Just Worship.
Anyone with LCWRA status before 2028, when the WCA is scrapped, gets to keep that status in perpetuity. So I'd guess that technically there's no legal challenge, because people assessed under the current regime don't lose their status. It's new people who are screwed.
May 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Anyone with LCWRA status before 2028, when the WCA is scrapped, gets to keep that status in perpetuity. So I'd guess that technically there's no legal challenge, because people assessed under the current regime don't lose their status. It's new people who are screwed.
If one of the better employment support programmes, targeting a healthier group of sick and disabled people, still can't get 82.5% of participants into sustained paid work - then what does Labour really think will happen to 2.5-3mn people who aren't fit for work?
May 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one of the better employment support programmes, targeting a healthier group of sick and disabled people, still can't get 82.5% of participants into sustained paid work - then what does Labour really think will happen to 2.5-3mn people who aren't fit for work?
Despite the Solent Jobs Programme offering a lot more than most employment support programmes, and including JSA recipients, it didn't get substantially larger results.
72% did not move into work.
82.5% did not move into sustained work (26 weeks).
That's with a *good* programme.
72% did not move into work.
82.5% did not move into sustained work (26 weeks).
That's with a *good* programme.
May 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Despite the Solent Jobs Programme offering a lot more than most employment support programmes, and including JSA recipients, it didn't get substantially larger results.
72% did not move into work.
82.5% did not move into sustained work (26 weeks).
That's with a *good* programme.
72% did not move into work.
82.5% did not move into sustained work (26 weeks).
That's with a *good* programme.
SJP seems to me to have been a relatively good programme. There were real job brokers. Participants had regular support. They could go on work tasters and subsidised work, both of which increased work outcomes. They could access OH, and courses for mental health and wellbeing.
May 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
SJP seems to me to have been a relatively good programme. There were real job brokers. Participants had regular support. They could go on work tasters and subsidised work, both of which increased work outcomes. They could access OH, and courses for mental health and wellbeing.
This blogpost looks at the Solent Job Programme.
Regression analysis suggests it increased employment outcomes by 7-8.7% points, to 28%.
However, over half of participants were JSA/UC fit for work. And getting work is not the same as sustaining work.
www.stefbenstead.co.uk/post/evidenc...
Regression analysis suggests it increased employment outcomes by 7-8.7% points, to 28%.
However, over half of participants were JSA/UC fit for work. And getting work is not the same as sustaining work.
www.stefbenstead.co.uk/post/evidenc...
Evidence that Labour is ignoring: Solent Jobs Programme
The Learning and Work Institute recently released a briefing which, rather optimistically to my mind, suggested that 45,000-95,000 sick and disabled people might move into work as a result of employme...
www.stefbenstead.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This blogpost looks at the Solent Job Programme.
Regression analysis suggests it increased employment outcomes by 7-8.7% points, to 28%.
However, over half of participants were JSA/UC fit for work. And getting work is not the same as sustaining work.
www.stefbenstead.co.uk/post/evidenc...
Regression analysis suggests it increased employment outcomes by 7-8.7% points, to 28%.
However, over half of participants were JSA/UC fit for work. And getting work is not the same as sustaining work.
www.stefbenstead.co.uk/post/evidenc...
"After economists on the left bought into the Chicago School’s deference to markets—“we are all Friedmanites now”—social justice became subservient to markets, and a concern with distribution was overruled by attention to the average, often nonsensically described as the “national interest.”"
May 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"After economists on the left bought into the Chicago School’s deference to markets—“we are all Friedmanites now”—social justice became subservient to markets, and a concern with distribution was overruled by attention to the average, often nonsensically described as the “national interest.”"
"Keynes wrote that the problem of economics is to reconcile economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty. We are good at the first, and the libertarian streak in economics constantly pushes the last, but social justice can be an afterthought."
Angus Deaton www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
Angus Deaton www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
Rethinking Economics or Rethinking My Economics by Angus Deaton
Questioning one’s views as circumstances evolve can be a good thing
www.imf.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"Keynes wrote that the problem of economics is to reconcile economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty. We are good at the first, and the libertarian streak in economics constantly pushes the last, but social justice can be an afterthought."
Angus Deaton www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
Angus Deaton www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
"But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution—frequently though not inevitably—our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder."
May 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"But the others regularly fail to materialize, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution—frequently though not inevitably—our recommendations become little more than a license for plunder."