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Extra benefits incentive to train PM sets out training benefit plan
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Gordon Brown wants to see poor families paid extra benefits if they take on work or skills training. Gordon Brown has set out plans to give extra benefits to members of poor families who agree to return to work and sign up to skills training courses.
During his first visit to Wales as PM, he will call for a "contract" between government and the worst-off families. The proposals are based on a US system where some families receive more than £1,000 a year for up to three years.
He is examining a New York scheme which offers cash to encourage people back into work and education. In a speech at the Welsh Labour Party conference, the prime minister acknowledged people from disadvantaged backgrounds faced difficulties.
For the Tories, Chris Grayling said Mr Brown was "chasing headlines" after warning last month of benefits cuts for those who refused training. But they must take up the opportunities available to them, Mr Brown added.
Later Mr Brown will tell Welsh Labour's Llandudno conference that people must do what they can to take up work and acquire the skills to become employed. 'Greatest opportunity'
Wayward children The prime minister said he proposed new "contracts out of poverty" for individual families to escape the "daily injustices of poverty".
Employment Minister Stephen Timms will travel to the US to see if parts of the scheme, called Opportunity NYC, can be imported to the UK. He told the conference in Llandudno: "In the coming decades the number of the world's skilled jobs will double.
"It creates the greatest opportunity for whichever country rises to the education and skills challenge. I want that country to be Britain.
"Unlocking not just some of the talent of the British people, but all of the talent of our people."
Extra payments
Employment Minister Stephen Timms will travel to New York to see if parts of the scheme, called Opportunity NYC, can be imported to the UK.
The programme gives money to people in poor inner-city areas in return for them staying in work or enrolling in training.The programme gives money to people in poor inner-city areas in return for them staying in work or enrolling in training.
Once again he's chasing headlines by latching on to a scheme in New York that has only just started, and no one yet knows if it works Chris GraylingConservatives
It sees some of the city's poorest families paid about £1,000 a year for up to three years.
Extra payments are added if parents agree, for example, to oversee the behaviour of wayward children, or even to stop smoking or improve their diet if there are health concerns.Extra payments are added if parents agree, for example, to oversee the behaviour of wayward children, or even to stop smoking or improve their diet if there are health concerns.
The government is expected to announce a series of pilot schemes, concentrating initially on the employment and training sections of the US experiment.The government is expected to announce a series of pilot schemes, concentrating initially on the employment and training sections of the US experiment.
'Great mission' Unproven scheme
Mr Brown will say: "We're just halfway there to the opportunity revolution our country needs. Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Chris Grayling said Mr Brown was "chasing headlines" after warning last month of benefits cuts for those who refused training.
"An opportunity revolution to drive social mobility forward - which is the great mission of the next decade." "Last month Gordon Brown wanted contracts and benefit cuts for those who refuse training," he said.
He will say that the government must ensure that work pays for families with children in poverty.
But Mr Grayling, the shadow secretary for work and pensions, said: "Last month Gordon Brown wanted contracts and benefit cuts for those who refuse training.
"This month he says he wants contracts and benefit increases for those who accept training."This month he says he wants contracts and benefit increases for those who accept training.
"Once again he's chasing headlines by latching on to a scheme in New York that has only just started, and no one yet knows if it works.""Once again he's chasing headlines by latching on to a scheme in New York that has only just started, and no one yet knows if it works."
The Conservatives have also pledged to adopt a New York "workfare" scheme which forces the long-term unemployed to do community work for their benefits. The Tories have pledged to adopt a New York "workfare" scheme which forces the long-term unemployed to do community work for their benefits.