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Recommendation 11
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We recommend that the Department for Work and Pensions broadens the scope of its ‘Helping...
Recommendation
We recommend that the Department for Work and Pensions broadens the scope of its ‘Helping workless families indicators’ to measure the quantity and quality of work in families and communities, and the quality of family support so that they better address the challenge of in-work poverty and the additional stresses often endured by families in income poverty.
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The government's response focuses on ongoing research into data matching and analysis programmes for child income poverty and engagement with local authorities regarding Universal Credit data sharing, which does not address broadening the scope of 'Helping workless families indicators'.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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The ‘Helping Workless Families Indicators’ are intended to track progress in tackling the disadvantages associated with worklessness. They were developed on the basis of a significant and high-quality evidence base around worklessness and associated root causes of disadvantage and child outcomes. Therefore, we do not intend to expand the scope of this publication further at this time. Statistics measuring the quantity and quality of work are already published elsewhere and therefore broadening these indicators does not offer sufficient public value. Rates of poverty by economic status of the family (e.g. part time / full time / unemployed / inactive) can be found in DWP’s publication Households Below Average Income. The ONS publish a range of labour market statistics using its Household and Social Surveys: The main ONS labour market statistics produced each month provide measures of the quantity and type of employment, broken down by a range of characteristics. ONS working and workless households quarterly statistics cover labour employment by parental status; the labour market status of people with and without dependent children; and the economic status of households with children. You may also be interested in their publication Job Quality indicators in the UK . Recommendations 5, 7 and 9
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