Arbeitsberater sollten in Hausarztpraxen integriert werden, da Zehntausende weitere kranke und behinderte Menschen Hilfe bei der Arbeitssuche anboten
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/job-advisers-to-be-embedded-in-gp-surgeries-as-tens-of-thousands-more-sick-and-disabled-people-offered-help-into-work
Von StGuthlac2025
15 Kommentare
Like Careers officers from schools giving you any old crap advice to tick boxes
So they’re going to spy on the sick, and try to force them into work to make their underemployment numbers look better.
It’s not just securing work, it’s keeping it. The same UK Government that claims to be helping has [cut Access to Work grants](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl90ry2j7o) at the same time, a scheme which was very popular and effective.
They want to get disabled people into the workforce and off social security, but they seem fundamentally unwilling to make the kind of upfront investments that will allow people to actually transition. The strategy seems to me much more interested in the failed tactic of hiring „work coaches“ to remind people they are unemployed, so the government can claim it has helped and it is the unemployed people who are failing.
That could be interesting. When I’m in my GP waiting room I’m on the edge of a catatonic, non-verbal panic attack requiring immediate use of beta-blockers to control.
You want to set me off with friendly chat and helpful advice? You aren’t trained for what happens next. The Dr can barely cope.
Ha. Yeah, who’s going to employ a 55 year old with multiple qualifications, who happens to use a stick, has hearing aids and is currently laid up with IBS, when there is a surplus of young healthy people out there who are still green enough to be fully exploited?
I mean, I know the cruelty is the point but the government won’t be happy until every quadriplegic is employed as a draught excluder. Or has an ‘assisted death’ because they are a useless eater… er… I mean ‘economically inactive’.
I agree with the idea behind this but I’ve seen in practice that those work coaches recruit clients to become work coaches in the same org which is a huge conflict of interest
If you are getting pip and other benefits, why would you work any job, lose some of these benefits for the same income?
there’s barely any jobs for people and the government want to take benefits? An evil world man, an evil world indeed…
Are these the same advisors who were going to go into mental health wards and rally people up into applying for jobs?
Great, a useless government that is doing very little to support disabled people back into work is trying to push the disabled into a job market that has no time or incentive to hire disabled people. Who’d have thought that after the Tories, we’d end up with another government that are completely removed from reality?
ELI5 behefits?
Never claimed, no one in my family has, don’t think any friends have. So I’m clueless.
How easy is it to just “get behefits”
Like if I wanted to stop working now and just leech, is that possible or is it just a lie spouted by people who don’t understand it either?
And this will do fuck all to actually help them find a job. Why would a company hire a disabled or sick person who will potentially have limited work capabilities and/or need time off more frequently.
This reminds me of when I was unemployed in ky youth and got put on a few long term unemployed‘ courses to ‚help me find work‘. I asked my job coach about my chances and he said „honestly after 6months of been unemployed for 6months my chances of getting an interview/job were slim to non but they had to find me something todo“.
Luckily I found a job myself by pure chance, but this like those courses is a just a way to make it look like the government is trying whilst likely spending more money than it will save.
People who got a bullshit job to tell other people to get a job, hilarious, the amount of wasted taxpayer money on this stupidity must be huge.
whats worse than the gov implementing this is a labour advisor appearing on GMTV arguing the case!
Unless employers are willing to hire disabled people, there is no point. Anyone with some form of disability knows that admitting to having a disability and needing accommodation is a one-way ticket to the reject pile for your application. I only have mental health issues (OCD) and I did not get any interviews until I took that off my applications. I was given some accommodation at work for a bit but then had it taken away when it no longer suited my manager, going against what occupational health said in the process. I have no trust in my employer (the NHS of all places) to treat disabled people with respect but know it is the same everywhere. Unless your disability is convenient to your employer, they are just going to ignore your application.