800,000 jobless single parents will be summoned to interviews at Job Centres in a new Labour offensive aimed at dragooning them into low-paid jobs.
Under the new plans, each woman will be given a "tailor-made back to work plan", drawn up by Job Centre staff. tire exercise seems to be another effort to intimidate women into accepting insecure, part-time and low-paid employment, in order to cut welfare spending.
Tony Blair has insisted that Labour does not yet plan to change the rules which prevent single parents with children under 16 being compelled to take jobs by threat of losiong benefit. ing "new ideas". The future looks bleak. But in the absence of sufficient jobs paying decent rates, the enHowever Downing Street has admitted that Frank Field is examinNocialist Durook