Our new report - From stigma to support - sets out three critical changes to ensure the government's reforms actually improve the system:
1. Transform PIP - from interrogations to support
2. Invest in training & capacity of frontline DWP staff
3. End sanctions to nurture confidence and ambition

Great to see you there Iain!

We’re excited to keep working with our supporters, alongside MPs and the government to create a social security system we can all be proud of. Together we can #StoptheStigma and #FixtheSystem

@terryjermymp.bsky.social

By ensuring its reforms build trust and restore dignity & respect, the government has an opportunity to deliver a social security system we can all be proud of.

Read our full recommendations 🤓 www.turn2us.org.uk/stop-stigma
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3. DWP need to stop the surveillance:
Sanctions and prescriptive conditionality are infantilising, erode trust and don't help people into work. We are backing @neweconomics.bsky.social's proposal for a 3-month period of voluntary engagement to instead nurture confidence, ambition and hope. (5/6)

2. DWP must restore trust as a foundation for effective
engagement:
Work coaches & assessors can either help overcome shame, build confidence and enable people to succeed – or further reinforce stigma. DWP staff need the time, capacity and training to build trust and provide tailored support. (4/6)

1. DWP need to transform access to PIP, from interrogation to support:
The Timms Review should consider learnings from Scotland’s embedding of dignity & respect, simplifying application forms, reducing unnecessary assessments, and assessors that understand the reality of life with a disability (3/6)

Our insights show that ambitions to support more people into new and better work are doomed to fail - unless the government addresses the reputation, culture and distrust of PIP assessments and Jobcentres.

We're calling for 3 changes for a more effective, efficient and compassionate system👇 (2/6)

Demoralising, frustrating processes are harming individuals - half of claimants said the process worsened their mental health - and eroding trust in DWP.

To successfully improve employment support and the PIP assessment, government reforms must prioritise treating people with dignity and respect.

Turn2us will be at the Labour Party Conference with the @thefabians.bsky.social, where we will put these findings to the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Stephen Timms.
 
Join us on the day at Bluecoats at 7pm, Sunday 28th Sept: fabians.org.uk/social-insec...