This year, Britain will pay out more in benefits than it raises in income tax. As the government attempts to revolutionise the welfare system – controversially rewarding private companies according to their ability to coax people off benefits and into jobs – Channel 4 follows the people on both sides of this new welfare state. Hayley Taylor’s job is to persuade single mothers on benefits to go back to work. This week, cameras follow her group of ten single mothers, referred from the Job Centre, during their intensive six-week course to prepare them for work.

Thursday 20 August 2009
9:00pm, Channel 4