1. welfare reform - the opportunities for job creation and supporting people into employment Tracy Fishwick

2. Welfare reform…in a nutshell Get more people in to work / off benefits… – Carrot VS Stick – Work Programme Make work pay – Universal credit Save money – Benefit caps, benefit cuts, make it harder to claim, have more people in work (or off benefits…)

3. Welfare reform where to begin…? housing benefits Council tax Universal credit child benefits, tax credits DLA / PIP reforms Work programme Sanctions

4. We could spend a day on the fact that… The majority of the ‘welfare’ budget is pensions 45% of households get some form of DWP benefit 59% of reforms affect people in work – so finding work is not the whole answer 85% of disabled people on the Work Programme don't move in to work The impact of reform on local government / housing associations; the link between a home and a job Is welfare reform making it harder for people to work – feeling more insecure, losing control, stigma, isolated

5. But my brief is to be up-beat! How opportunities can be created for new jobs How people can change their own lives How we can do things outside the ‘mainstream’? How we can INNOVATE as part of public service reform

7. Innovate: individuals’ employability

8. Focus on the employer

9. Innovate: People helping people DC Central Kitchen - reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.

10. Leverage: housing as a force for job creation ‘Proving Talent’ and Give us a Chance Consortia enabling job creation, up-skilling local people, no grant money, all through contractor levy

11. Devo and the like MyGo - the UK’s first employment centre especially designed for young people ; collaboration between EOS Works Ltd, Tomorrow's People, public sector ‘white labelled’

12. Opportunities for VCS? Relationships not transactions Smaller, local contracts, commissions Encourage risk – innovate, test, share ideas Leverage – employers, business, infrastructure, civic leaders, housing Specialist programmes e.g. part time working Social action, people helping people, choice, volunteering Collaboration with employers as well as pan-sector Invest in evidence base and impact (not SROI) jobsinnovators.org nesta.org.uk/blog/four-steps-new-work-programme

13. Thanks tracy@transform-lives.org @inclusionNW 07769670753