Lone Parent Obligations : work, childcare and the Jobseeker’s Allowance regime

Abstract

Recommendations• Promote and facilitate the increased use of staff trained in lone parent issues within Jobcentre Plus in the delivery of the JSA regime for lone parents.• Improve awareness and uptake of the Jobcentre Plus Offer among lone parent claimants.• Ensure all Jobcentre Plus staff have a leaflet which they give to parent claimants about childcare in their local area.This could be either a list of local childcare providers or a leaflet from their local Family Information Services.It would also be useful if this identified where parents should go for advice about finding childcare for children with a disability or behavioural problems. Child poverty in lone parent householdsChildren of lone parents are more likely to live in poverty than children in a two parent family.In the UK, 20 per cent of all children and 28 per cent of children in lone parent families were in relative poverty in 2009/10. 2 Analysis of the Families and Children Study by Philo et al. (2009) found lone parent families were more than three times as likely as couple families to belong to the lowest 2 Households Below Average Income 2009/10 7 Conditionality Measures in the 2011 Welfare Reform Bill, http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/conditionality-wr2011-ia.

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