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Target practice: ambition and ambiguity in the aim to end child poverty
- Author:
- EVANS Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 124, Summer 2006, pp.5-14.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
The author analyses progress on, policies on and prospects for the reduction in child poverty.
Out for the count: the incomes of the non-household population and the effect of their exclusion from national income profiles
- Author:
- EVANS Martin
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics an
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 78p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Analysis of members of the population not included in household survey based income profiles. Compares methods used in the UK with those used in France.
The employment effects of recession on couples in the UK: women's and household employment prospects and partners’ job loss
- Authors:
- HARKNESS Susan, EVANS Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 40(4), October 2011, pp.675-693.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Since 1999, the UK has undertaken reform of employment and transfer programmes, with a particular emphasis on boosting incomes and work incentives for families with children. The resulting literature focussed on the impact that these reforms had on women's movements into employment. However, since the economy re-entered recession in 2008, an ever more important question is how have these reforms affected women's decisions to remain in employment, or enter into work, if their partner becomes unemployed. This study investigated the effect of male job loss on their partners' employment, and to explored the implications for the distribution of jobs across households. Data was drawn from the Labour Force Survey, a quarterly sample survey of households living at private addresses in the UK. Findings revealed that working women whose partners lost their jobs in the 2008/09 recession were more likely to remain in work than before. This has helped to mediate the growth in workless couple households.
Exploring poverty gaps among children in the UK
- Authors:
- GARDINER Karen, EVANS Martin
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Measures in the Child Poverty Act and the National Child Poverty Strategy are based on whether individuals are below or above a certain poverty threshold. The poverty gap measures the extent of poverty for those who are below the relative poverty threshold, by calculating the shortfall in an individual's income from the poverty threshold and expressing this as a percentage. The aim of this paper is to use poverty gap analysis to explore the depth of poverty experienced by children of low-income families in the UK. It is based on 2008/09 analyses of the raw data underlying the government's official low income statistics, Households Below Average Income. It sets out the methodology, including how poverty gaps are calculated, and presents data on poverty head counts for UK children (capturing poverty risk) and poverty gaps for UK children (representing the severity of poverty among the poor). The authors conclude that it is important to look at different dimensions of poverty, and that further detailed work needs to be done to fully understand which factors are linked to the severity of poverty.
CPU child poverty pilots: interim synthesis report: research summary
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, GARDINER Karen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Nine child poverty pilots have been operating across England since 2008, with over a third of Local Authorities involved with at least one of the initiatives. The 9 pilots are: Childcare Affordability Pilot 2009; Child Development Grant; Child Poverty Family Intervention Project; Co-ordinated Local Support for Separating Parents; HMRC Outreach Initiative; Local Authority Innovation Pilots; The School Gates Employment Support Initiative; Teenage Parent Supported Housing; and Work-focused Services in Children’s Centres Pilot. These pilots represent a large and varied set of policy interventions, with each pilot testing a range of different approaches to reducing child poverty. There is also diversity in terms of the client group the pilots engage with, for example, some have a whole community focus, whilst others target families or specific vulnerable groups or individuals. The aim of this report is to bring together information from each of the pilots, to maximise comparisons across the evaluation evidence base, and to draw out key findings relevant for policy makers and practitioners at national and local level. This interim report mainly focuses on implementation and pilot delivery evidence, and explores the following cross-cutting pilot themes: pilot participants; developing tailored, innovative and localised solutions; and early indications of outcomes, experiences and perceptions of pilot services.
CPU child poverty pilots: interim synthesis report
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, GARDINER Karen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 97p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Nine child poverty pilots have been operating across England since 2008, with over a third of local authorities involved in at least one of the initiatives. The pilots represent a varied set of policy interventions, with each pilot testing a range of different approaches to reducing child poverty. Some have a whole community focus, whilst others target families or specific vulnerable groups. This report brings together information from each of the pilots, to maximise comparisons across the evaluation evidence base, and to draw out key findings relevant for policy makers and practitioners at national and local level. Additional analysis has been conducted to strengthen the evidence base. This interim report mainly focuses on implementation and pilot delivery evidence and explores the following pilot themes: pilot participants; developing tailored, innovative and localised solutions; and early indications of outcomes, experiences and perceptions of pilot services. It is hoped that the evidence base from the child poverty pilots in conjunction with other relevant poverty related reviews and reports can help shape child poverty strategies at both national and local level.
Tackling child poverty when parents cannot work
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, WILLIAMS Lewis
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 42p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
An overview and analysis of current policy approaches that support incomes of parents who are unable to work, focusing on maternity, short-term sickness and unemployment and on issues surrounding disability and caring. The report describes the current strengths and weaknesses in policy provision to combat child poverty when parental employment is constrained and is a timely analysis given the approaching 2010 deadline for halving child poverty from 1999 levels. The analysis uses original and unique tax-benefit modelling of current provision across a range of low-paid and out-of-work family profiles
Welfare to work in the United Kingdom
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, Millar Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Policy Practice, 5(2/3), 2006, pp.61-76.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Increasing employment and reducing child poverty are two central goals of current government welfare reform policy in the UK, and single parents-with their relatively low employment rates and relatively high poverty rates-are one of the key target groups for both. This article outlines welfare reform policies in the UK with particular reference to single parents, such as the New Deal for Lone Parents, and discusses the impact of these. In doing so, it highlights some key differences compared with the US. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
The opportunities of a lifetime: model lifetime analysis of current British social policy
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, EYRE Jill
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- vi, 91p., col. ill., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
An analysis of how well the benefit, pension and taxation systems meet the needs of individuals throughout their lifetimes. This report uses a new research tool, LOIS (the Lifetime Opportunity and Incentives Simulation programme), to assess the impact of current social policy from cradle to grave. It analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the benefit, pension and taxation systems and how far they are likely to meet the needs of individuals throughout their lifetimes. In this context, the authors reassess specific Government promises, such as those to end child and pensioner poverty. Comparing low- and average-paid model lives, the report: shows how difficult it is for parents to reconcile child poverty against future poverty in old age; develops new ideas about the design of social policy over the lifetime; and reveals the pitfalls of private pensions for the low-paid.
Growing together or growing apart?: geographic patterns of change of Income Support and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance claimants in England between 1995 and 2000
- Authors:
- EVANS Martin, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press,|Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 95p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This report analyses the changing patterns of income deprivation in England between 1995 and 2000. Drawing on data from the Department for Work and Pensions on claimants of Income Support and Jobseeker’s Allowance, it explores the changes that have occurred in this time period for different types of families in England. The findings are broken down by Government Office Regions, local authorities and wards. The report asks the following questions about the claimant families: who are they and how many are families with children, older unemployed, single people etc?; where are they? and are the focused in specific geographic locations?; and how has the profile of income deprivation changed over time, in numbers, composition and concentration?