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New deal 50 plus: quantitative analysis of job retention
- Author:
- GRIERSON Karen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this analysis was to investigate job retention for New Deal 50 plus Employment Credit claimants, in the year following the end of their entitlement. Job retention is seen as an important measure of the success of the programme. The methodology involved analysing the New Deal 50 plus evaluation database to profile Employment Credit claimants’ characteristics, and the nature of job retention after the Credit ends. Job retention was measured on the basis that recipients did not return to benefit. Of the 75,000 customers who had started claiming the Employment Credit, up to June 2002; 69 per cent are male, 32 per cent disabled, 96 per cent white, 42 per cent married, and 12 per cent self employed. The majority of Employment Credit claimants fall into the 50-54 age group (59 per cent), and were previously claiming JSA (72 per cent). There are concentrations of Employment Credit claimants in northern Jobcentre Plus regions.
Disability
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 14, October 2002, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Education and social services are often not working well together in transition planing. There is also poor coordination between children and adult social services. Young people who are disabled and in placements out of their local area are particularly likely to experience inadequate transition planning.
Un-supported living?
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 22, October 2002, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
A financial, legal and regulatory concern is developing nationwide, related to supported living schemes. The concern is that some housing benefit claims by learning disabled occupiers of such schemes will be refused based on the views of the National Care Standards Commission that the tenancies are invalid.
Geographic patterns of change of benefit claimants
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Using data from the Department for Work and Pensions, this study explores changing patterns of claim rates of Income Support (IS) and income-based Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA-IB) in England between 1995 and 2000. It carries forward earlier work using administrative data and demonstrates the power of such data in measuring changing fortunes over time for different area units and claimant groups throughout England. Following the recession in the early 1990s the British economy enjoyed a period of sustained economic growth. The impact of this recovery has, however, not been shared equally by different groups, whether these are defined geographically by area, or by claimant group category. The study looked at changes in claim rates by claimant characteristics (lone parents, unemployed, 'disabled and others', those aged 60 and over, families with children, and claimants who are in their fifties) and by location (Government Offices for the Regions (GOs), local authority districts and wards).
Still missing out? the case studies: ending poverty and social exclusion; messages to government from families with disabled children
- Author:
- SHARMA Neera
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 51p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Despite changes to disability benefits and other services many of Britain's 360,000 disabled children and young people still live in poverty and are socially excluded from their communities. This report details interviews with 17 families with disabled children to find out more about the issues facing them and what impact if any government policies have had on their lives.
Pathways to work: helping people into employment
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 65p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This White Paper sets out a coherent way of supporting people moving onto incapacity benefits. It is based around increasing financial incentives to return to work, a better support and referral programme and rehabilitation projects to help people manage their conditions. It seeks to give support for people who have to move from an incapacity benefit to a jobseekers allowance. These all combine to create a wider ranging package of choices for those on incapacity benefit.
Pathways to work: helping people into employment; summary
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This summary document sets out a coherent way of supporting people moving onto incapacity benefits. It is based around increasing financial incentives to return to work, a better support and referral programme and rehabilitation projects to help people manage their conditions. It seeks to give support for people who have to move from an incapacity benefit to a jobseekers allowance. These all combine to create a wider ranging package of choices for those on incapacity benefit.
Disability and adoption: how unexamined attitudes discriminate against disabled people as parents
- Author:
- WATES Michele
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 26(2), Summer 2002, pp.49-56.
- Publisher:
- Sage
For many years the author has been involved in developing peer support and a campaigning network of disabled parents in the UK. While disabled children and adoption have been the focus of some debate, the issue of adoption has received far too little attention in relation to disabled adults. This article seeks to redress the balance by looking first at how children with disabled parents are over-represented in the looked after system. The author goes on to discuss the ways in which disabled people are overlooked as potential.