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Reforms target under-sevens lone parents
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
22 July 2008
Lone parents of children aged seven or over will be expected to look for work and those with younger children to take part in training, under welfare plans set out by the Government yesterday (21 July).
Work and Pensions minister James Purnell unveiled the reforms as part of the Welfare Green Paper, which includes a move to scrap incapacity benefits by 2013 and abolish Income Support. People on incapacity benefit will be moved to the new Employment Support Allowance (ESA) to help them return to work, which the Government sees as a temporary measure for all but the most severely...
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