Manifesto 04/05 - Secure employment.

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Ensure that all families can increase their chances of obtaining better-paid and more secure employment

Manifesto 06/07 - Our goals

Skill and qualification levels are important in determining whether a person is likely to be in work and how much they earn. Lone parents are less likely to have qualifications than mothers in couples (78 per cent compared with 88 per cent).

The proportion of out-of-work lone parents with no qualifications is particularly high. A survey of lone parents on Income Support found that just over half (51 per cent) had neither technical nor academic qualifications. Over half (56 per cent) had no academic qualifications and more than three quarters (77 per cent) had no technical qualifications.

At the same time Personal Advisers in Jobcentre Plus are making fewer referrals to training (200 people per month between May and August 2005 compared with 300 per month during the same period in 2004).

The Government must place a greater emphasis on skills in its welfare to work policy if the employment and child poverty targets are to be achieved.

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