No to Tory / Fine Gael "fit to work" programme for the sick & disabled

Many thanks to the person who forwarded this to the Archive.

As with some other posters from the Anti-Austerity Alliance during this period this particular example isn’t badged with the AAA-branding though the colour scheme and strong graphics is typical of others from them.

The poster makes a clear linkage between Fine Gael and the British Conservatives arguing that the former intend to introduce a ‘fit to work’ programme ‘for the sick and disabled’.

The Work Programme in the UK as noted here on wiki :

was a UK government welfare-to-work programme introduced in Great Britain in June 2011. It was the flagship welfare-to-work scheme of the 2010–2015 UK coalition government. Under the Work Programme the task of getting the long-term unemployed into work was outsourced to a range of public sector, private sector and third sector organisations. The scheme replaced a range of schemes which existed under previous New Labour governments including Employment Zones, New Deal, Flexible New Deal and the now abolished Future Jobs Fund scheme which aimed to tackle youth unemployment. Despite being the flagship welfare-to-work scheme of the Conservative-led coalition government, and then the incumbent Conservative government from May 2015, the DWP announced, in November 2015, that it was replacing the Work Programme and Work Choice with a new Work and Health Programme for the longer-term unemployed and those with health conditions. The DWP also announced that it would not be renewing Mandatory Work Activity and Help to Work which included Community Work Placements.

DWP staff were notified that, as of February 2017, new referrals to the Work Programme are discontinued. It was officially stopped on 1 April 2017.

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