These policies are:

• In-Work Credit (IWC): a weekly payment of £40 that is available (for up to 12 months) to all lone parents who have been claiming income support (IS) or jobseeker's allowance (JSA) for at least 12 months, and who stop claiming benefit and move into work of at least 16 hours per week.
• Work Search Premium (WSP): a weekly payment of £20 that is available (for up to 6 months) to all lone parents who have been claiming IS/JSA for at least 12 months and participate in the New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP), and who voluntarily engage in job search activity.
• Quarterly Work Focused Interviews (QWFI): mandatory for all lone parents whose youngest child is aged 12 or above, and who have been claiming IS/JSA for at least 12 months.
• Extended Schools Childcare and Childcare Tasters (ESC): designed to improve childcare affordability and give parents the opportunity to "taste" childcare provision before committing to it long-term.
• New Deal for Lone Parents Plus (NDP): enhanced NDLP services.

The project uses data from the DWP's Work & Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS) to quantitatively evaluate the impact of the various combinations of these pilot programmes on exit rates from benefits and employment rates of all lone parents on IS/JSA in the pilot areas.

This project is carried out in collaboration with researchers at the Policy Studies Institute.