Evidence Submitted to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry Into Benefit Sanctions Policy Beyond the Oakley Review (SAN0110)
Evidence Submitted to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Inquiry Into Benefit Sanctions Policy Beyond the Oakley Review (SAN0110)
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提交给下议院工作和养老金委员会的证据，调查奥克利审查之外的福利制裁政策 (SAN0110)
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2014
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D. Webster
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D. Webster
这份材料是在提交人早些时候就JSA制裁向
委员会对就业中心在改革后的福利制度中的作用进行的调查。它
更新关于JSA和ESA制裁的主要事实和数字；纠正部长和官员关于制裁的错误陈述；指出Oakley审查的许多建议没有得到采取行动；暴露了DWP及其前身为其制裁制度提出的理由中的弱点；并主张应废除由官员实施的制裁制度。制裁不是一个旨在促进就业、福祉和劳动力发展的循证制度。这是一个以意识形态为基础的混乱制度，其特点是残忍、无能、低效、渎职和不诚实，这对我们社会中最不享有特权的人造成了巨大的损害，并对许多其他旨在解决社会弊病的公共和自愿方案造成了不利影响。DWP及其前身官员的“竖井”思维和政客们的意识形态姿态相结合，导致了一个庞大的秘密刑罚系统的发展，其严重性可与主流司法系统相媲美，但没有后者的保障。制裁应该干脆废除。应享权利的条件必须保留，但应以尊重索赔人为基础，并为不符合这些条件的人提供有效的安全网。“积极的劳动力市场政策”可以为申领人提供一些东西，这些政策将继续下去，并通过消除威胁和强迫而得到加强。
This submission follows earlier submissions on JSA sanctions by the author to the
Committee’s Inquiry into the Role of Jobcentre Plus in the reformed welfare system. It
updates the main facts and figures about JSA and ESA sanctions; corrects misrepresentations about sanctions by Ministers and officials; points out that many of the Oakley review’s recommendations are not being acted upon; exposes the weaknesses in the justifications which the DWP and its predecessors have put forward for their sanctions regime; and argues that the system of sanctions imposed by officials should be scrapped. Sanctions are not an evidence-based system designed to promote the employment, wellbeing and development of the labour force. This is a chaotic system, based on ideology and characterised by cruelty, incompetence, inefficiency, malpractice and dishonesty, which is doing immense damage to the least privileged in our society, and working against many other public and voluntary programmes aimed at addressing social ills. A combination of ‘silo’ thinking by officials in the DWP and its predecessors, and ideological gestures by politicians, has led to the growth of what is a huge secret penal system, rivalling in its severity the mainstream judicial system but without the latter’s safeguards. Sanctions should simply be abolished. Entitlement conditions would have to remain, but they should be based on respect for the claimant and accompanied by an effective safety net for those who do not meet them. ‘Active labour market policies’ which have something to offer the claimant would carry on and indeed be enhanced by the removal of threat and compulsion.