From my understanding we don't have enough council housing in the first place, and what about the family's other family's, friends and more importantly the children's schooling.
Is the government promising, a new job, a place for each child at the nearest school, funding to help for travel, funding to help for child care and a new council house, I don't think so.
This feels like another short sighted attempt by the government to reduce its unemployment numbers without really helping the people that need it.
These are my questions below:
- What happens if one person has a job, but the other partner doesn't are their still expected to move.
- A lot of working people use their family and friends to look after children, under this system the government will have to pay for extra child care.
- What happens if you turn down the job (do you then loss your benefits and housing)
- Were are all these jobs, Britain no longer has mass factory's or manufacturing sites.
- Will the government also give them money to put a car on the road or pay for public transport, because you can't say well we have a job and a council house for you, but they are twenty miles apart and we are cutting all the public transport systems.
- Also this migration will be from the north to the south, since the north was so heavily hit by the Tory's back in the 80's the jobs on scale needed just don't exist.
- Are you guaranteed a school place for your children in the nearest school, which then will have a knock on effected, do we just add more children to the class or will local family then get turned down.
Please read press story below
Duncan Smith considers incentives to relocate jobless
Iain Duncan Smith said millions were trapped in "ghettos of poverty" unable to move for fear of losing their homes.
Labour's Ed Balls called the idea "profoundly unfair" and likened it to Tory calls in the 1980s for people to "get on your bike" to look for work.
But Mr Duncan Smith said such comparisons were "ludicrous".
The coalition government has promised bold welfare reforms to ensure work pays better and to tackle generations of unemployment in families.
'Trapped'
Mr Duncan Smith said that the fact that there were five-and-a-half million people who were not working showed that current policies were not working.
Britain had one of the most static workforces in the western world, with people "trapped" in areas with high unemployment, he said.
Under the last government, he told Sky News, "almost ghettos of poverty" had appeared "where people are static and unable to get work because there is not work there".
The government wanted to distribute unemployment more evenly across the country and to make it as easy for people on low incomes to travel to do a job as the better-off, he added.
Mr Duncan Smith said he did not expect people to relocate to different parts of the country, nor did he want everyone to move to the south east of England.
