Content tagged with "welfare" (19) Rss_icon_small


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

Tags: Thomas Cawston, Andrew Haldenby, Patrick Nolan, Economy,

Help! Refashioning welfare reform to help...

January 2009

Refashioning_welfare_reform_big_thumb This report, the fourth in a series by Frank Field MP, looks at time-limiting benefits and offering higher contribution-based benefits to long-term workers who are made redundant.

Tags: welfare

Making individuals agents of their own...

November 2007

Making_individuals_agents_of_their_own_change_big_thumb 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.

Tags: welfare

Welfare isn't working - child poverty

June 2007

Child_poverty_big_thumb 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.

Tags: welfare

Welfare isn't working - New Deal for Young...

May 2007

New_deal_for_young_people_big_thumb 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 number of unemployed young people has increased.

Tags: welfare

Reforming welfare

November 2006

Reforming_welfare_big_thumb 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.

Tags: welfare, Nicholas Boys Smith

Spending without reform

June 2002

Spending_without_reform_big_thumb Reform established the Commission on the Reform of Public Services in February 2002. It found that without reform of the public sector, higher spending will be wasted.

Tags: Economy, welfare