RR 606 The lone parent pilots after 24 – 36 months: the final impact assessment of In-Work Credit, Work Search Premium, Extended Schools Childcare, Quarterly Work Focused Interviews and New Deal Plus for Lone Parents
By Brewer, Browne, Chowdry and Crawford
Between April 2004 and March 2007, various central government policies were piloted to help or encourage lone parents into work or to stop claiming benefits. These were collectively known as the lone parent pilots, and included In-Work Credit, Work Search Premium, Extended Schools Childcare and Childcare Tasters (ESC), Quarterly Work Focused Interviews for lone parents in Local Education Authorities in which an ESC pilot is operating, whose youngest child is aged 12 or over, and New Deal Plus for Lone Parents. In-Work Credit has since been rolled out to all of Great Britain in April 2008, outside the period covered by this report.
This report presents estimates of the net impact of the lone parent pilots on the benefit and employment outcomes of lone parents who had been receiving Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance. The research made use of two empirical methods – difference-indifferences and a duration (or survivor) model – both of which use lone parents in Jobcentre Plus districts not operating the lone parent pilots as a comparison group.
December 2009 252 pages 297x210mm
ISBN 978-1-84712-644-3
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