Sign on for benefits, sign up for skills - Purnell and Denham

Compulsory training and an overhauled training system to help people get into and on at work

Benefit claimants who need to improve their skills in order to get a job will have to attend compulsory training, under new proposals announced by James Purnell and John Denham. The move will be backed by improvements to the training system that will give adults access to a new 'skills account' to fund vocational courses.

The plans are published in a Government welfare and skills paper Work Skills.

• Read the full Work Skills press release
• Discover the interactive document including video case studies from across the UK showing how the employment and skills system is being transformed
• Work Skills PDF version (PDF 1,457KB)