Read this Mike
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/special/depressionreport.pdf

and this:
http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/type/pdfs/a-fair-society1.html

There is another report within the above which can be downloaded or read within the article.

These docs will explain the agenda.

I’m involved with a charity, All Youth Matters, who have been working with job centres in South Wales, particularly Rhondda Cynon Taff, to help people with learning difficulties particularly Autistic Spectrum Disorder who have problems in finding work.

Nearly all the people they have worked with want a job but perform badly at interview and at presenting their positive qualities. This problem has worsened since the last coalition government attack and destruction of Remploy who used to give this sort of support.

My own involvement was by mock interviewing the students in what were as realistic conditions as I could make it.

The learners who managed to complete the course report that they felt they had benefitted and in fact some (not many, sadly) have found jobs.

We were able to identify many of the supports the learners will need, eg help with form filling, support at interview, support while settling in to a job etc

In my view the majority of those I ‘interviewed’ were capable of holding down the right sort of job. Sadly a small number would probably never be successful in paid work though they had been able to contribute positively in some ‘work’.

As I understand it some of the latter were moved off JSA to a more appropriate benefit for their circumstances that took the pressure to ‘look for work’ off them.

Outside agencies with the right agenda ie true honest support for the client without an element of compulsion (no do the course or be sanctioned) seems to me to be a no brainier. Some people need specialist help and support. Many of the learners I met had anxiety issues and poor self confidence etc and the course seemed to help them.

Unemployment generally affects peoples’ self image, anxiety, depression, mental health and interactions in the community and any attempts to help them work on themselves in those areas are a good thing if they don’t come with hidden agendas or threats of sanctions. Long term unemployment is wasteful and destructive and attempts to identify extra help to support those with mental illnesses or learning difficulties into a position where they feel they are making a contribution to their community is good.

This is good economics in the long run because it is an investment that will pay off in the long run but there must be a willingness to pay to support these people for however long it takes. It should never be seen as the cheap option or a way to save money at the expense of the vulnerable.

Try to imagine a Britain which DID NOT allow mass immigration! Without a constant,and ever increasing inflow of cheap scab labour British employers would have to employ our own people or go bust! They would soon stop demanding ever higher levels of qualification and experience simply to pack shelves and flip burgers.
Everyone would become increasingly valuable as the supply of labour grew smaller,within a few years we would have full employment,rising wages and ever improving conditions.
The gap between the Rich and the Poor would shrink,social mobility would become a reality rather than a subject for historians and our Benefit bill would vanish into history as getting a job became simply a matter of walking into the first open doorway.In such an environment employers would soon scrap their high handed interview methods and be grateful that anyone bothered to apply in the first place.
Anyone who thinks that this couldn’t happen is wrong,it could and it DID! The Black Death came to England in 1348 and wiped out anything upto 80% of the peasants in anyone area.This completely changed the economic balance of power and destroyed Serfdom.
Supply and Demand is ALL that matters,cut the supply and wages rise,increase the supply and they fall.Why do you think that so much effort has been expended in persuading people that opposing mass immigration is wrong,that it is racist? But this tactic has been very successful and even many so called Socialists buy into the notion that we have some kind of duty to allow mass immigration regardless of the social cost to our own indigenous poor.
Until people actively oppose mass immigration nothing will improve for our most vulnerable,they will ALWAYS be at the bottom of the heap and the heap is getting bigger every day!

Looking at their website, someone claims to have developed their own “therapy” system (*Trade Mark* symbol, ffs). The practitioner has diplomas in NLP, hypnosis ( note – not hypnotherapy), and “Chrysalis Effect Practitioner” – huh? No awarding individuals, organisations or institutions are given for any of these Diplomas, rendering them worthless.

Yet apparently they offer a therapy *TM* “helping people with anxiety and depression through a combination of psychology, physiology and neuroscience.” without any apparent qualifications (unless you think “Chrysalis Effect” is another name for neuroscience). I must stress again that psychological treatment or therapy should only be done by those with appropriate and recognised professional qualifications and membership of an approved regulatory & professional body.

The whole CBT in Job Centres programme is totally unethical, so it looks like they are dredging the fringes for those willing (ie ethically flexible or not qualified for professional accreditation) to take part in this mass experiment on the unemployed and sick and disabled.

NLP / CBT has a lot of question marks against it as a therapy, and its actual effect other than some short term behaviour modification.

We are not told directly that the contract is for mass behavioural modification, but that the *TM* therapy produced 95% of happy satisfied customers (no facts or numbers given again) who walk around smiling, having been cured of inner negative thinking. There is no reference on the site about helping unemployed people get jobs.

Help people, yes, with good training & good tutors. Even, perish the thought that they could be taught real new skills that are in demand in the economy, but not this. In another blog today. SPeye Joe is wondering if the UK is in some sort of collective mental paralysis about the Benefit cuts, I would say the paralysis is more like collective psychosis that has been built up by the Tory / neolib propaganda and MSM for the last 5 years, here and around the world.

Hell, yes, I’m worried.

Depression is not as simple as people think. If it is caused by outside influences then talking therapies can help if offered by qualified individuals. Chemical imbalance is different it can be treated with medication although that is something else the government does not like. Sometimes talking therapies help but not always. Anxiety should respond to talking therapies but can take a long time depending upon the cause. It really is not so simple. It is not going to cure job lots of people to the point that they can manage to work. Having said that I can vouch for the fact that if you can work despite these difficulties it can really help you to feel good about yourself. I managed Fortyfour years.

no amount of talking will make a persons life better, it won’t give them a job, it won’t fish them out of poverty, their lives will just be the same as before, how about, they actually help people get a job, rather than offering them into slavery, or trying to con them into thinking their life is better than it is, or trying to push them away from benefits without actually finding them a means of employment. The jobcentre does not do the one thing it was set up for and that is to get someone into secure employment.

I seem to recall that a previous regime forced “undesirables” to be subjects for experimentation, under “doctors” who even if they had qualified properly, were acting in ways that would have them struck off any ethically run register.
I wonder if this quack is prepared to face the same penalty when convicted?
I seem to recall the last lot were hanged, along with the most senior of their employers.
Even the slogan wasn’t all that different – “make work pay” is remarkable for it’s similarity to “work sets you free”, isn’t it?