The Government is committed to eradicating child poverty by 2020 and to increasing the
employment rate of lone parents. Government support has involved a range of measures …

Abstract In July 2006,“welfare-to-work” policies were introduced for single parents in
Australia. These policies require most single parents with school-aged children to be …

Single parents are increasingly a target group for “activation” through new obligations to
seek paid work or engage in education or training. Researchers commonly characterize new …

This thesis explores how significant aspects of teachers' work are being re-organised by the
rise of large scale assessment regimes. The research shows how teachers' work is …

This article examines the contested impact of financial sanctions on Australian employment
services, with government evaluation relying on job‐search theory to justify sanctions while …

There are many theories of what is causing a sense of social acceleration and the 'time
squeeze'in modern society, such as the notion that individuals are 'doing more'through …

Since the early 1990s, liberal welfare regimes have begun to treat lone parents as workers
rather than as carers. This has happened in conjunction with an ongoing 'moral panic'about …

Meetings between advisers and claimants are central to many welfare-to-work programmes.
These 'street-level'exchanges between clients and staff are critical to the implementation of …

This thesis deals with lone parents'(LPs) vulnerability. The literature on the topic is mainly
concerned with their negative outcomes, especially in terms of poverty and bad health …

The UK Government has an ambition to increase the lone parent employment rate to both
support its aim to maximise employment opportunity for all and contribute towards the …