UK jobcentres will spend less time policing the benefits system and more time helping people to find work, under government reforms aimed at raising the employment rate to the highest in the G7.
Alison McGovern, employment minister, told the Financial Times that a white paper due later in the autumn would set out “big changes” to a welfare system that left too many people “on the scrapheap”.
“The first thing has to be cultural change,” she said, calling for a return to the founding principles of the welfare state.
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