Key Briefings for Training & Employment
Most lone parents do have a job and many more want one. The key challenges lone parents face includes lack of affordable, flexible, quality childcare and employers who won’t be flexible around childcare needs. This means a lot more lone parents lose their job in the first year than other employees. Improving job retention for lone parents to the same standard as for other employees would by itself be enough to meet the government target of a 70% lone parent employment rate.
Lone Parent Sustainable Employment Research
A brief summary of government research on what has been learnt from the experience of delivery of employment programmes in the UK to date.
Lone Parent Employability Progression Model
This short paper provides information on a holistic Lone Parent Progression Model developed in response to mainstream welfare to work/employability initiatives, which will influence future developments around Lone Parents and Poverty.
'Mini-jobs' for Lone Parents?
Juggling work and childcare is the big conundrum of being a lone parent. New research has found that working in a so-called 'mini-job' for under 16 hours a week could be the way to bring lone parents gradually back into full-time employment while also allowing them to adjust their childcare needs. But are the advantages to lone parents real ones?
Stepping Up: Advancement & Retention Policies
Stepping Up: How Can Advancement & Retention Policies be Made to Work for Lone Parents
Published by OPF & Nuffield Foundation , 2006
http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/0330.pdf