The Scottish Government has released a series of ‘position papers’ outlining its approach to social security provision. Some of these papers are very thin, but in the hope that people will find the reference useful, here’s the list:
- Social Security Charter and independent scrutiny
- Social Security Principles and a rights based approach
- Social Security Fraud and Offence Provisions
- Social Security ICT implementation
- Social Security Agency implementation
- Re-determinations and Appeals
- Disability Assistance and Employment-Injury Assistance
- Support for Carers
I’ve previously commented on most of these issues. I’d like to see a system that is less geared to replicating the DWP’s adversarial approach and more to a ‘learning organisation’, that takes the responsibility itself for correcting mistakes and learning from them.