The New Deal for Lone Parents.

The objective of the NDLP programme, according to the government, is for lone parents to be offered advice by the Jobcentre Plus to develop a package of job search, training and after-school care to help them off benefit and into work. The service is delivered through jobcentres, with personal advisers offering a tailored package of advice and support to meet the needs of individual lone parents. The programme is aimed at all lone parents over …showed first 75 words of 561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 561 total…through the NDPL have stated their intent to treat unemployed single parents as a social problem that needs to be dealt with. The most practical approach would to learn from the evidence of the failure of the New Deal and construct a better alternative. But unfortunately, as highlighted by Willetts and Hillman, the desire of ministers to claim every policy as a total success means they cannot acknowledge the problems and try and tackle them.