"The effect of Pathways to Work has been generally positive, although Mind doesn't support the scope for sanctions.
During sleep, new learning and memory pathways become encoded in the brain, and adequate sleep is necessary for those pathways to work optimally.
Condition Managers were employed specifically for the DWP Pathways to Work programme and had a similar role to Case Managers but with a lesser ability to arrange treatments for individuals [ 12, 13].
They related to the relevant aspects of the ONE Advisory Service, New Deal for Disabled People and Pathways to Work pilots, as follows.
The review found evidence on the impact and implementation of various strategies with an individual orientation within three national UK policy programmes: the ONE Advisory Service, New Deal for Disabled People and Pathways to Work.
These 31 studies evaluated three national programmes piloted or established since 1997: the ONE Advisory Service, the New Deal for Disabled People and the Pathways to Work programme and other initiatives packaged with them (Return to Work Credit, Permitted Work Rules, Condition Management Programme).
The welfare green paper proposes that private and voluntary sector providers will expand the Pathways to Work programme for getting people into work from incapacity benefit.
According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Pathways to Work pilots have increased the number of people leaving incapacity bednefits within the first six months by 8%.
19 Employment and support allowance and before it the new Pathways to Work programme for new incapacity benefit claimants have represented a change in emphasis from what people with limited health cannot do to what would they could do.
Another issue for these programmes, somewhat mitigated in Pathways to Work by its mandatory nature, was that awareness of the schemes and reach among the target population of incapacity benefit claimants was generally low.
