So what do we do with these areas

[vetran]

Britain's benefits ghettos: Report reveals growing number of estates where half those of working age are dependent on handouts | Mail Online

One in every five British children now grows up in a workless household
Government spends more than one in every three pounds on welfare
Authors of Signed Off, Written Off study say figures are 'national disgrace'
By OLIVIA WILLIAMS

PUBLISHED: 19:32, 19 May 2013 | UPDATED: 08:08, 20 May 2013

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Britain is rife with welfare ghettos where more than half the working age population is dependent on unemployment benefits, a think-tank claims.

As many as 6.8million people and 1.8million children have been trapped into long-term poverty, the Centre for Social Justice says in a report.

It would mean nearly one in five children are growing up in a workless household – the second highest in Europe after Macedonia where it is nearly one in four.

How do we fix it?

[DimPrawn]

Napalm.

[Troll]

Nuke or cede to Scotland

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Mass hypnosis?

[Old Hack]

Nuke or cede to Scotland

I think we could clean up our unemployment quite dramatically by letting Wales, NI and Scotland fend for themselves...

[bobspud]

My first thought would be enforced sterilisation. But thats not going to fly because I am sure it will trip up some nasty rule or another that leaves them free to **** and fornicate all day in the name of rights.

Jamie Oliver had the right idea with getting 1-2-1 with people teaching them a life skill then getting them the do the same for 10 of their friends. We just need to find the right skills and then the right teachers for the job. It has to come up from inside the ghettos not imposed down on them by the usual class of social change pioneers...

[d000hg]

People going in and making relationships and helping is probably better than any political generalised solution, but it requires a lot of people and is a hard job.

Breaking up the 'ghettos' and spreading people out might work but then you find you've got one moved next door to you and suddenly it doesn't seem a good idea

[darmstadt]

Export them all to Eastern Europe

[vetran]

I think we could clean up our unemployment quite dramatically by letting Wales, NI and Scotland fend for themselves...

Scotland doesn't feature in the summary.

Wales does but its Rhyl which isn't that massive.

One of the charities, Chance UK, said that some children do not understand what work is. Asked what they wanted to be when they grew up, the children only answered 'I want to be famous' or that they wanted to be the 'boss' of a gang.

However, the think tank said there was a greater social rather than financial imperative for reforming welfare: 'By focusing on income transfers rather than employment, our welfare system has made people dependent on benefits, trapping them in poverty and preventing them from achieving economic independence.'

The CSJ, founded by Iain Duncan Smith, before he became Work & Pensions Secretary, is working on a follow-up report, in which it will set out recommendations for the second phase of the 'welfare revolution'.

[jmo21]

Saw on advert for The Purge last night.

Not a bad idea, probably a crap film though