Barriers to Lone Parents' Employment: Looking beyond the obvious

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-44

  Speak, Suzanne ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004467257     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: 14709325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026909400364007     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bromley R. D. F. Thomas C. J. 1995: Small town shopping decline: dependence and inconvenience for the disadvantaged, The International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Vol 5, No 4, October, 432–56.
2. Bradshaw J. Kennedy S. Kilkey M. Hutton S. Corden A. Eardley T. Holmes H. Neal J. 1996: The Employment of Lone Parents: a comparison of policy in 20 countries, London: Family Policy Studies Centre.
3. Bryson A. Ford R. White M. 1997: Making work pay: lone mothers, employment and well-being, York: York Publishing Service.
4. Burghes L. Brown M. 1995: Single lone mothers: problems, prospects and policies, London: FPSC.
5. Culum P. 1995: Consumer rights to universal services, In Hicks C. (ed) Consumer rights to universal servicesUniversal Service Obligations: A policy review, CIPFA: London.
6. Devins D. Hughes G. 1995: Down the Superhighway to Urban Information Inequality: Paper for the BSA Contested Cities Conference, Leicester, April.
7. Dyer P. 1997: Households without telephones in the UK. Telecommunications Policy, Vol 21, No 4, 341–53.
8. FINER 1974: The report to the committee on one parent families. The Finer Report, Vol. 1, London: HMSO.
9. General Household Survey 1996: Office of National Statistics, London: Stationery Office.
10. Gilroy R. Speak S. 1998: Barriers, Boxes and Catapults, Social exclusion and everyday life, In Madanipour A. Cars G. Allan J. (eds) Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, experiences and responses, London: Jessica Kingsley.
11. Guy C. 1996: Corporate strategies in food retailing and their local impacts: a case study of Cardiff, Environment and Planning A, Vol 28, 1575–1602.
12. Karn V. Henderson J. W. 1987: Race, Class and State Housing: Inequality in the allocation of public housing in Britain, London: Gower.
13. Kempson E. 1994: Outside the banking system: a review of households without a current account, Social Security Advisory Committee, Research Paper No. 6, London: HMSO.
14. Kempson E. Whyley C. 1999: Kept out or Opted out, Bristol: Policy Press.
15. Macleod J. K. 1997: The Plight of the Unbanked Payee, Law Quarterly Review, Vol 113, January. London: Sweet and Maxwell.
16. Madanipour A. 1995: Dimensions of Urban Space: The case of the Metro Centre, Gateshead, In Urban Design Studies, Vol. 1.
17. Marvin S. Graham S. 1993: ‘The telephone network: spatial variations in levels of access’. CREUE Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle. (Unpublished Report.)
18. Morris L. 1995: Social divisions, economic decline and social structural change, London: UCL Press.
19. Murdock G. 1986: Poor Connections: Income Inequality and the Information Society, In Golder P. (ed) Excluding the Poor, London: Child Poverty Action Group.
20. Newcastle City Council 1996: Mid Census Ward Profiles.
21. Newcastle City Council 1999: Audit of Childcare Provision and Need, Early Years Service, Newcastle City Council.
22. Newcastle City Housing Department 1995: Local Authority Housing Tenancies, Unpublished data on length and reason for termination.
23. Social Exclusion Unit 1998: Bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal, London: NSO.
24. Speak S. Graham S. 2000: ‘Logistics of everyday life - marginalised neighbourhoods, essential private services and compound social exclusion’ in Environment and Planning ‘A’.
25. Speak S. 1997: The employment situation of young single parents from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Working Paper No. 67. Department of Town and country Planning, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Working Paper Series.
26. Speak S. Gilroy R. Cameron S. 1997: Young Single Fathers: Participation in fatherhood, London: Family Policy Studies Centre.
27. Speak S. Gilroy R. Cameron S. Woods R. 1995: Young Single Mothers: Barriers to independent living, London: Family Policy Studies Centre.
28. Wood J. Healey P. Gilroy R. Speak S. 1995: Changing the way we do things here: The Cruddas Park Initiative, CREUE University of Newcastle upon Tyne.