Councils could become the ‘catalysts' for a revolution in welfare-to-work policy being considered across Whitehall – designed to ease the unemployed into jobs by allowing them to sell their labour in small blocks of time.
That is the view of the man behind the innovative ‘Slivers of time' programme gaining support among coalition ministers examining changes to benefit rules which could allow people to sign up for work for as little as two hours a week.
