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Research and Publications

The 8th Principle - Response to 21st Century Welfare Consultation - By the CREATE Consortium

Benefits that Work: The Social Value of the Community Allowance - by Aleksi Knuutila and Susan Steed published by the New Economics Foundation

Dynamic Benefits: Towards Welfare that Works - by the Centre for Social Justice's Economic Dependency Group

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

21st Century Welfare Consultation

Welfare Reform Bill 2010

Decentralisation and Localism Bill 2010

State of the Nation, June 2010

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

Responses to Government Announcements and papers

The Work Programme - Helping the Hardest to Reach, Community Links (June 2010)

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