Chapter 6 Placing welfare in rural England

Abstract

These reforms offer a vision of a fairer welfare system where truly no one is written off, where nearly everyone is preparing or looking for work, where everyone is treated as an individual and gets the support they need. More importantly, these reforms point the way to a fairer society where children don't grow up in poverty, where disabled people enjoy real equality, and everyone is given real help to overcome the barriers to achieving their full potential. (DWP, 2008, p. 8)Workfare has finally arrived in the UK, but not with trumpet blasts of outrage: it's been smuggled in with lofty rhetoric about ‘personalisation’, ‘individually tailored’ advice and support which will enable people to ‘take control of their journey to work'. (Bunting, 2009)

Citation

Milbourne, P. (2010), "Chapter 6 Placing welfare in rural England", Milbourne, P. (Ed.) Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-1922(2010)0000015008