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Community work placements

Community Work Placements were a UK Government workfare scheme under which unemployed claimants had to work for up to 26 weeks/30 hours in order to continue to receive Jobseekers Allowance The policy has been criticized by a number of organizations. Community Work Placements (CWPs) were launched at the start of 2014, but it was announced in November 2015, that the DWP was "not renewing" them.

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Community Work Placements were a UK Government workfare scheme under which unemployed claimants had to work for up to 26 weeks/30 hours in order to continue to receive Jobseekers Allowance1 The policy has been criticized by a number of organizations. Community Work Placements (CWPs) were launched at the start of 2014, but it was announced in November 2015, that the DWP was "not renewing" them.234

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  1. "Community Work Placements - ESF". Dwp.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 22 December 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  2. "Department for Work and Pensions' settlement at the Spending Review". DWP. 25 December 2015.
  3. Shiv Malik (3 November 2014). "DWP orders man to work without pay for company that let him go". The Guardian.
  4. Kevin Curley (20 May 2014). "Kevin Curley: Community work placements are offensive - not to mention unworkable". Third Sector.