Hundreds of thousands trapped on welfare

Responding to today’s announcement by Reform UK on welfare reform, Joe Shalam, policy director at the Centre for Social Justice, said:

“Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in a welfare system that does not work for them nor for our flatlining economy.

“The CSJ has long called for reforms to mental health benefits, which are failing British young people, and these proposals are a step in the right direction. Some of the savings must be invested in a radical expansion of NHS Talking Therapies and back to work help.”