Lone Parent Obligations: supporting the journey to work
| Title | Lone Parent Obligations: supporting the journey to work |
| Author(s) | Nick Coleman and Lorraine Lanceley |
| Organisation | DWP |
| Date | 16 May 2011 |
| No. of pages | 161 |
| Key words | lone parents; low incomes; health; mental health; information, advice and guidance |
| Description | A survey of over 2,500 lone parents currently claiming Income Support whose eligibility to that benefit will end when their youngest child turns seven to determine their work-readiness and likely requirements in terms of future labour market support |
| Select quotations | - “Even when lone parents have a youngest child of the same age they display considerable diversity in terms of health, finances and qualifications and so vary greatly with regard to work-readiness.
- Despite this, the lone parents in this survey expressed a very strong orientation towards work. The majority (78%) reported that they want to work and 69% thought they would work in the next few years, so supporting the overall thrust of Lone Parent Obligation.
- However, many had not worked for a considerable period of time: 26% had not worked since they became a parent (at least six years previously), and a further one in four (24%) had never worked.
- The majority of these lone parents who were still several months away from leaving Income Support said that, overall, the advice they had received from Jobcentre Plus in the previous 12 months had been helpful (83%). However, 27% did not think that their individual circumstances had been taken into account in the advice they had received from Jobcentre Plus.”
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| Link | http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2011-2012/rrep736.pdf |
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