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Keeping track of welfare reform: the new deal programme
- Author:
- Millar Jane
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Since the 1997 election, the Labour Government has pursued an ambitious programme of welfare reform. Central to this are the New Deal programmes, aimed at getting people into work and helping them to stay in work. They include compulsory programmes for young people and the long-term unemployed, and voluntary programmes for lone parents and disabled people. This report provides the first overview of the key results, comparing the different New Deal programmes and placing them in the context of the broader frame of welfare to work policies. The research shows that there has been a positive impact on employment rates, and that participation in the New Deal often helps people improve their job-seeking strategies, confidence and skills. One of the main innovations, and central to the way participants perceive the New Deal, is the key role given to the ‘personal advisers’.
Understanding social security: issues for policy and practice
- Editor:
- Millar Jane
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 335p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Reform of social security and tax is at the heart of the government's vision to combat social exclusion, eradicate child poverty and move people into employment. Since 1997 there have been changes in policy and administration, directly affecting the lives of millions of people and raising important issues of equity and social justice. This book provides an analysis of these changes and their impact and covers both social security policy and practice addressing key issues such as tax credits, welfare-to-work, cash and care, fraud, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities, disability, the pledge to end child poverty, pensions, international policy contexts, policy making and institutional change and policy implementation for service delivery.