K Brook - Labour Market Trends, 2005 - social-capital.net
Human capital, defined by skills and qualifications, and to a lesser extent personal capital, defined in terms of behavioural characteristics, are considered to be key determinants in …
A Whitworth, J Griggs - Ethics and Social Welfare, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Since the 1990s OECD nations have witnessed a rapid expansion in the use of conditionality within welfare to work programmes in the shift towards 'activating'welfare …
A Barlow, S Duncan, G James - Analysing Families, 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
Following its landslide election victory in 1997, the 'New Labour'government in Britain has adopted the express aim of changing social behaviour as part of its project of …
M Evans, J Eyre, J Millar, S Sarre - 2003 - martin-evans.org
This report reviews and synthesises evaluation evidence produced for the national evaluation of the New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP). It brings together evidence from …
R Walker - Evaluation, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
The UK Labour government has offered a hand of friendship to the academic research community and to social science in particular. It has rejected anti-intellectualism in …
J Millar - Policy Studies, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
The New Deal for Lone Parents represents a significant break with past policy approaches. Throughout the post-war period, lone parents in the UK have not been required to seek …
There has been a major transformation in labour market policy in the United Kingdom since the mid 1990s. The obligation of unemployed people to actively seek employment has been …
ME Evans - International Journal of Social Welfare, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A major aim of the Labour Government elected in May 1997 was to change British social policy away from passive income maintenance towards promoting employment, investment …
J Millar - Welfare to work in practice, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
In the United Kingdom, the government's commitment to creating an'active, modern welfare state', in which'work is the best form of welfare'has lead to significant changes in social …