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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The “Employment‐first” Welfare State: Lessons from the New Deal for Young People
Contributor:
Finn, Dan
imprint:
Wiley, 2003
Published in:Social Policy & Administration
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1046/j.1467-9515.2003.00367.x
ISSN:
0144-5596;
1467-9515
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p> <jats:italic>New Labour is constructing an “employment‐first” welfare state. It plans through Jobcentre Plus to transform the passive culture of the benefit system by creating more explicit links between individual behaviour and engagement with labour market programmes. The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) has been at the forefront of these changes. This paper reports on the findings from four case studies that explored how the NDYP has changed young people's experience of the welfare state. It establishes that NDYP offers a mixture of employment assistance and “pressure” and has made progress in developing front‐line services and helping young long‐term unemployed people into work. NDYP does not, however, work for all. In areas of high unemployment and for some disadvantaged groups intermediate labour markets could enhance the New Deal and make real the offer of “employment opportunities for all”.</jats:italic> </jats:p>