Small and medium sized businesses and disadvantaged parents: overcoming training recruitment and retention barriers. Final report.

McQuaid, Ronald W; Dutton, Matthew; Bergmann, Ariel; Richard, Alec; Lindsay, Colin

All Outputs (3)

How can parents escape from recurrent poverty? (2010)
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Fuertes, V., & Richard, A. (2010). How can parents escape from recurrent poverty?. Edinburgh: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

This study explores why disadvantaged parents move into poverty and identifies the specific barriers to them escaping the cycle of low pay/no pay or recurrent poverty. It draws on information from interviews with parents and focus groups with profess... Read More about How can parents escape from recurrent poverty?.

The low-pay no-pay cycle and disadvantaged mothers. (2009)
Conference Proceeding
Fuertes, V., McQuaid, R. W., & Richard, A. (2009). The low-pay no-pay cycle and disadvantaged mothers.

Small and medium sized businesses and disadvantaged parents: overcoming training recruitment and retention barriers. Final report. (2008)
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Dutton, M., Bergmann, A., Richard, A., & Lindsay, C. (2008). Small and medium sized businesses and disadvantaged parents: overcoming training recruitment and retention barriers. Final report

The project involved new research, investigating barriers preventing SMEs from recruiting from disadvantaged groups (especially unemployed/inactive parents, who represent an underutilized source of labour within the Scottish economy) and identifying... Read More about Small and medium sized businesses and disadvantaged parents: overcoming training recruitment and retention barriers. Final report..