23rd July

SITE NEWS

The response to last week's question about revealing bid results was entirely in favour. Unless someone makes a case against it, we'll keep publishing the news when we get it. In related news, the official FND results are coming out shortly, and we'll replace the rumoured results as soon as they do so.

We've updated the Welfare Reform Green Paper article to include a breakdown of proposals, press coverage and commentary - http://snipurl.com/29l89

Question of the week - Well, the paper's out. What do you think of it? How will it affect your organisation and your customers? - http://snipurl.com/33mx8

PROVIDER NEWS

The official NDDP results have finally been made public - http://snipurl.com/33mx9 (rtf)

If your customers ask about Child Maintenance Options, this is what they mean - http://snipurl.com/1rwm8

ERSA are looking for a full-time Director to run the organisation - http://snipurl.com/33mxa

RESEARCH NEWS

A huge amount of research has been published in the past few days. Is everyone going on holiday or something? Some of it is very useful though, so you should at least have a quick browse.

Government policy is heavily influenced by lobbyists, a report on the 2007 Welfare Reform Act reveals - http://snipurl.com/33mxb

Disabled people and employment - http://snipurl.com/33mxc and http://snipurl.com/33mxd

Mental health and employment. The official summary misses out most of the interesting stuff, so we've put our own together - http://snipurl.com/33mxf

Ex-offenders and employment - http://snipurl.com/33mxg

The Commons Public Accounts Committee is very grumpy about the DWP's ethnic minority support - http://snipurl.com/33mxi

Employment helps migrants to integrate better - http://snipurl.com/33mxj

'Promotion interviews, language and ethnicity' - people born abroad do less well at interviews because they don't share the common culture and norms of the interviewer - http://snipurl.com/33mxk

The BERR-commissioned DeAnne Julius Review of the Public Services Industry, i.e. government contracting to the private and third sector, thinks it's a good thing, saving 10-30% of delivery costs with no drop in quality, and recommends government support for exporting UK PSI services abroad - http://snipurl.com/33mxe (pdf)

New improved DWP! Now 11% more efficient! - http://snipurl.com/33mxh

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