Campaign for Home Education

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Sunday 28 March

Work-for-benefit changes when child is 3, deadline Monday 29th March

The Social Security Advisory Committee invites people to give views on the Government's proposals that parents of 3-6 year olds should be required to undertake "work-readiness activities". Pilots are proposed for Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, South London and the Tees Valley. In addition, parents on benefit in these areas will receive financial incentives for working less than 16 hours a week which is currently a stumbling block for home educating single parents.

These proposals are related to the Welfare Reform Act 2009.

The deadline for responses is 5pm Monday 29th March.

The Social Security Advisory Committee does not require a formal memorandum type response in the same way as Select Committees or Bill Committees. You can write informally and comment on any aspect of the proposals and highlight how the changes would affect your family or home educators in general. Judging by previous SSAC consultations, the public/stakeholder response rate will be low, therefore our concerns will be noted in the SSAC official response which is put before parliament.

More details can be found here http://www.ssac.org.uk/press/press20.asp.

The file setting out proposals is 46 pages long and can be found here or from the main SSAC press release page given above.

Responses should be sent to ssac@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.