key element of their strategy was a move towards increasing employment rates among families with children by a combination … of increased in-work support through the Working Families Tax Credit and active case management of the population on … mothers’ employment and poverty. In this paper we extend this to include at the impact on the numbers of lone parent families …

and that substantially increased support for poorer families with children. The reforms, including the introduction of the … Working Families Tax Credit and an increase in means-tested income support, raised benefits by up to 10 per cent of household …