The Government-commissioned report, Reducing Dependency, IncreasingOpportunity: Options for the future of welfare to work, sets out aseries of measures to get the long-term unemployed back to work. Theseinclude greater use of the voluntary and private sector to supportlong-term benefit claimants and greater obligations to look forwork.
In particular, lone parents will be forced to try to get work once theiryoungest child reaches 12, rather than the current age of 16. Andfailure to do so could lead to benefit sanctions.
Welfare reform minister Jim Murphy said: "If we can offer lone parentsgreater levels of support, it is right that we debate whether theyshould have a greater responsibility to look for work when their childreaches an appropriate age."
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