DNNArticleList

The end of entitlement


October 2009


Reform's proposals for comprehensive welfare reform and abolishing middle-class welfare entitlements More

Productive parents


July 2009


Reform's review of maternity and paternity arrangements proposes a flat payment per family and equal leave entitlement for mothers and fathers More

Help! Refashioning welfare reform to help fight the recession


January 2009


This report, the fourth in the series on welfare for Reform by Frank Field MP, the former Minister for Welfare Reform, looks at time-limiting benefits and offering higher contribution-based benefits to long-term workers who are made redundant. More

Making individuals agents of their own change


November 2007


The report, the third in the series on welfare for Reform by Frank Field MP, the former Minister for Welfare Reform, presents new findings from a focus group of young unemployed people on welfare services. More

Welfare isn't working – child poverty


June 2007


The second report in Frank Field MP's series shows that progress on child poverty has stalled despite extra spending equivalent to a 4p cut in the basic rate of income tax. More

Welfare isn't working – New Deal for Young People


May 2007


The first in Frank Field MP's series of welfare reports for Reform. The report shows that the New Deal for Young People has so far cost £1.9 billion yet the numbers of unemployed young people are higher now than at the programme’s launch in April 1998. More

Reforming welfare


November 2006


The report by Nick Boys Smith, Consultant Director of Reform, is a definitive review of current and past welfare policy. It draws on international experience to make constructive proposals for welfare reform. More

Spending without reform


June 2002


Reform established the Commission on the Reform of Public Services in February 2002. The government's mantra of "investment tied to reform" is acknowledgement that, without reform of the public sector, higher spending will be wasted. More