Work Programme: You Cannot Be Sanctioned For Not Signing Admin Docs
I’ve been sent this response to an FOI request. Please share widely.
Dear Mr Ponsford
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request which was received on 20 May 2013. In
that request, you asked:
is there any requirement to sign any documents provided by workfare providers is a user
required to sign any of the following
action plan document
health and safety document
sign in sheet document
acceptable behavior document
if user did not consent to signing any of these documents would they be sanctioned
Neither the Department nor the private, public and voluntary sector organisations it works with
operate schemes called workfare or described as workfare.
On the Work Programme providers have the freedom to develop their own approaches to help
participants into work. In doing this there is no mandatory requirement for participants on the
Work Programme to sign action plans, health and safety documents, sign in sheets or
acceptable behaviour documents and participants will not be sanctioned if they do not sign the
documents. It should be noted that Work Programme participants are required to undertake all
that can be reasonably expected to give themselves best prospects of employment or moving
towards work, and if not do risk a benefit sanction.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
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I read this as not signing being an act to reduce your chances of getting work and therefore open to a sanction, if you don’t sign, for example, Health and Safety document, they could refuse you entry to the building. As a result you would be excluding yourself from a program they feel will improve your prospects of work. Now you are open to be sanctioned!
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