community work placements

Community Work Placements were a UK Government workfare scheme under which unemployed claimants had to work for up to 26 weeks/30 hours in order to continue to receive Jobseekers Allowance{{cite web |url=http://www.dwp.gov.uk/esf/news/community-work-placements.shtml |title=Community Work Placements - ESF |publisher=Dwp.gov.uk |accessdate=2014-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222230036/http://www.dwp.gov.uk/esf/news/community-work-placements.shtml |archive-date=2013-12-22 |url-status=dead }} The policy has been criticized by a number of organizations. Community Work Placements (CWPs) were launched at the start of 2014, but it was announced in November 2015, that the DWP was "not renewing" them.{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.uk/government/news/department-for-work-and-pensions-settlement-at-the-spending-review |title=Department for Work and Pensions’ settlement at the Spending Review |publisher=DWP |date=2015-12-25}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/03/dwp-benefits-electrician-work-placement-labour|title=DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go|author=Shiv Malik|publisher=The Guardian|date=3 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/kevin-curley-community-work-placements-offensive-not-mention-unworkable/policy-and-politics/article/1294817|title=Kevin Curley: Community work placements are offensive - not to mention unworkable|author=Kevin Curley|date=20 May 2014|publisher=Third Sector}}

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Category:Welfare in the United Kingdom