- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abstract
- Overall summary, recommendations and conclusion
- 1 Introduction
- Background to the study
- 2 Welfare to work/area regeneration context
- Introduction
- The community-based model
- Government welfare to work programmes
- Local area-based employment initiatives
- Intermediate Labour Market schemes
- New welfare to work initiatives
- Summary
- 3 The Bootstrap approach
- Introduction
- Background to Bootstrap Enterprises
- Key features of Bootstrap’s ‘pathway’ service
- Current activities
- Outcomes and costs
- The way Bootstrap works
- Summary
- 4 What Bootstrap service users say – 134 written responses
- The questionnaire
- The responders
- Results – feedback on the services
- Results – the outcomes
- Summary of findings
- 5 What the Bootstrap service users say – the in-depth interviews
- The interviews
- The people interviewed
- Potential barriers to employment
- Case histories prior to Bootstrap
- Contact with Bootstrap
- Services used at Bootstrap
- Changes which occurred after using Bootstrap’s services
- Summary of the employment and training trajectories of interviewees
- Why Bootstrap works
- Other agencies/people involved and their effectiveness
- Ambition
- Done it without Bootstrap?
- Improvements to the service
- Summary of the findings
- References
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