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The October issue of 'Benefits: The journal of poverty and social justice',
Volume 14, no. 3 is now available.
In this issue:
Simplifying Statutory Sick Pay: the evidence could be better
Jane Barrett
From work to incapacity benefits: ill health, skills, stress and insecurity
Jacqueline Davidson
Child support and child poverty
Jonathan Bradshaw
After all the policy reform, is child support actually helping low-income
mothers?
Christine Skinner; Daniel R. Meyer
Individualised pension provision: UK experience, US plans
Barbara Waine
Life chances and child poverty: the Fabian Commission
Fran Bennett
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Jay Wiggan; Colin Talbot
Adoption and benefits advice: the Nottinghamshire approach
Catherine Holliday
Benefits take-up in a Sure Start local programme
Sylvia Gilbert
Department for Work and Pensions: Evaluation of the StepUP pilot: final
report
Department for Work and Pensions: Early quantitative evidence on the impact
of the Pathways to Work pilots
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Child poverty in large families
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: The Social Fund: current role and future
direction
Government Round-up
Ruth Lister; Jane Barrett
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