Northern Ireland

Quality of services being reduced to live within budget - Northern Ireland Minister

Submitted by Paul.Bivand on Fri, 23/09/2011 - 9:40am

Cuts hitting jobless services is the headline in the Belfast Telegraph.

Service staffed for 35,000 dealing with 60,000+.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/c...

Some differences to GB - not Work Programme, funding very different, different contractors - some the same.

Any views of how this looks from the GB side of the water?

Welfare reforms will not work in Northern Ireland according to Social Development minister Alex Attwood

Submitted by mdavies on Tue, 20/07/2010 - 8:37am

Alex Attwood, Northern Irelands Social Development minster has told David Freud, the new work programme will not work in Northern Ireland. Mr Attwood claimed there are big differences between Belfast and London. The Social Development minister put forward three reasons to why the work programme would not work in Northern Ireland.