Transitions off income support: estimating the impact of new deal for lone parents using administrative data

Abstract

This report presents findings from the evaluation of the prototype phase of the New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP). The evaluation was undertaken by a consortium of independent researchers at the National Centre for Social Research, the Centre for Analysis of Social Policy at the University of Bath and the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick. The evaluation involved site visits, labour market studies, in-depth interviews, surveys of lone parents, analyses of administrative data, work and benefit histories and an assessment of the costs and benefits of the prototype. The different components of the evaluation have been presented in a number of reports. This volume contains three papers, the first discusses findings from the evaluation's cost-benefit analysis and the second and third papers contain econometric analyses which assess whether and to what extent there is additional movement off Income Support as a result of NDLP