Over the years, as the Community Allowance has been developed first by the National Community Forum and then by the CREATE Consortium, we have collated a number of useful items (publications and links to other websites) that visitors to this site may be interested in reading.
Research and Publications
CREATE: A Community Allowance - by Jess Steele and Aaron Barbour - published by Community Links
Benefit barriers to involvement: Finding Solutions - A report from the seminar held by the Joint Participation Steering Group - published by the Commission for Social Care Inspection
Problems in the delivery of benefits, tax credits and employment services: Problems for disadvantaged users and potential solutions - by Dan Finn, Danielle Mason, Nilufer Rahim and Jo Casebourne is published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Lone parents working under 16 hours a week 'mini jobs' - by Kate Bell from One Parent Families/Gingerbread and Mike Brewer and David Phillips from the Institute of Fiscal Studies - published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Attitudes to Social Justice - by Peter Taylor-Gooby - published by the Institute for Public Policy Research
People in Low Paid Informal Work - Need not Greed - by Denis Katungi, Emma Neale and Aaron Barbour - published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Local Action Changing Lives: Community Organisations tackling poverty and social exclusion - by Lenka Setkova and Claudia Botham - published by New Philanthropy Capital
Government Announcements and Publications
Sustainable Employment: supporting people to stay in work and advance - by John Bourn - published by the National Audit Office
Ready to Work, Skilled for Work: Unlocking Britain's Talent - published by the Departments for Work and Pension and Innovation, Universities and Skills
Department for Work and Pensions Website - information on welfare reform
Department for Communities and Local Government Website - information on communities and neighbourhoods
If you know of any other relevant reading that you think we should include here please contact us.
