The right to reside and access to social security in the Courts of Appeal

Cousins, Mel

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“…A reason for this softer trait could be the less harsh imposition of conditionality and sanctions. While scheme participants face potential sanctions if refusing a referral to a scheme without a plausible reason (Department of Social Protection, 2018), sanctions in the Irish welfare system are considered light compared to other liberal regimes, such as the UK (Cousins, 2019). Additionally, the Community Employment (CE) scheme advertises vacancies and permits a limited quota of eligible welfare recipients to apply, allowing a margin for choice.…”

Section: Activation In Irelandmentioning

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“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes

Petautschnig,

Timonen

2024

Social Policy and Society

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Activation schemes are widely criticised, with the negative experiences of ‘the activated’ featuring prominently in the literature. This article presents the findings of a constructivist grounded theory study concerning the lived experience of long-term unemployment, welfare recipiency and community placement in activation schemes in Ireland, with a focus on the positive effects that participating in such schemes had on participants’ subjective well-being. For the participants in this research, community placement signified change, respite, and recovery that improved their subjective well-being by creating an experience that counteracted the draining experience of long-term unemployment and welfare recipiency. This study brings new elements to the discussion on the role of activation in promoting/diminishing the subjective well-being of the long-term unemployed.

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Section: Activation In Irelandmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes

Petautschnig,

Timonen

2024

Social Policy and Society

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“…A series of rate cuts to all unemployment payments were announced in the 2009 and 2010 budgets. The headline rate of Jobseekers Allowance and Jobseekers Benefit was reduced from €204 to €188 per week (Collins and Murphy, 2016) while the payments of younger jobseekers were cut to just €100 per week for those aged 21 or under (excluding those with dependent children) and to €150 per week for those aged between 22 and 25 years of age (Cousins, 2019). This was justified on the grounds of the relative generosity of welfare in Ireland and a repeating narrative that Ireland 'lived beyond its means' (Dukelow and Considine, 2014b: 421).…”

Section: Austerity and Activationmentioning

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“…Reflecting different 'dynamics of deservingness' (Dukelow, 2021: 56) in Irish social policy, they have been targeted through a series of changes to the eligibility conditions for the One Parent Family Payment which, at the time of the crisis, was payable up until a person's youngest child reached 18 years of age (or 22 if they were in third-level education). Reform of the payment had been on the DSP's agenda since 2006, although there was little political appetite for progressing a reform that was expected to meet with strong opposition from the social partners (Cousins, 2019). This changed following the crisis, as the age at which a lone parent lost entitlement was progressively reduced.…”

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The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland

McGann¹

2023

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work in Ireland. It offers Ireland’s introduction of a welfare-to-work market as a case study that speaks to wider international debates in social and public policy about the role of market governance in intensifying the turn towards more regulatory and conditional welfare models on the ground. It draws on unprecedented access to, and extensive survey and interview research with, frontline employment services staff, combined with in-depth interviews with policy officials, organisational managers and jobseekers participating in activation.

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“…However, several features differentiated it from its neighbour and liberal regimes more broadly. During the early 2000s, headline benefit rates were far higher than in the UK (Dukelow and Considine, 2014b), there was minimal use of sanctions (Cousins, 2019), and -most unusually for a liberal regime -there was 'a very high level of welfare state legitimacy' (Payne and Mccashin, 2005: 3) in terms of public support for welfare expenditure. This is not to say that Ireland's pre-crisis welfare state included no demanding elements whatsoever.…”

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The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland

McGann¹

2023

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His main interests are in street-level bureaucracy and public service governance, with a particular focus on activation and employment services. His previous books include the coauthored Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia's Privatised Welfare-to-Work Market (Sydney University Press, 2021). Although now based in Australia, Michael grew up in Dublin and continues to actively research social policy in Ireland. vII AcknowledgementsThis book is the culmination of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship, supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, and hosted by Maynooth University. I am indebted to the tremendous support I received from colleagues at Maynooth, particularly Mary P. Murphy who helped guide the project from inception through to conclusion. As anyone who has ever worked with Mary knows so well, Mary is an outstanding colleague and extremely generous collaborator. Her passion for transformative change is both inspiring and infectious, and it was a privilege to work with her on this and related projects. I am also grateful for the friendship and support of Nuala Whelan, who collaborated on parallel initiatives that did much to progress this project. Rhona Bradshaw, Orla Dunne, and Anne Hamilton also provided vital administrative support, along with Patrick Boyle and Edward Holden.The book has also benefitted extensively from the periodic guidance of an advisory panel. It is not often that someone gets to deeply discuss their work with such an 'all-star' cast as

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The right to reside and access to social security in the Courts of Appeal

Cited by 4 publications

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“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes

“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes

The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland

The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland

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