To achieve the National Childcare Strategy's aim of expanding the number of childcare places, it is important that recruitment and retention of childcare, early years and play workers is fully understood. The aim of this predominately qualitative research study was to identify key issues...

DfES Research Report no. 409 To view PDF version click here.

Conditionality has increasingly been part of benefit entitlement and its effects have been examined in a number of ways. While the focus of previous research has been on general conditions such as job search and acceptance of job offers, this paper examines conditionality specifically in...

Presentations to six seminars organised by the Office of Criminal Justice Reform (Oxford, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Cambridge and Basingstoke) May and June 2006