Bruce Stafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Stafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9569-5500 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation
Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 19(5), pp. 503–504
Bad evidence: The curious case of the government-commissioned review of elective home education in England and how parents exposed its weaknesses
Governments in the United Kingdom have been contracting out policy reviews to individuals. One such review, of elective home education in England, reveals serious shortcomings to this practice. This paper explores the shortcomings – methodological and presentational – with the review, and highlights the fact that there was no governmental mechanism or code against which a commissioned review can be held accountable. Although a select committee he…
Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service
This article explores the impact of a more individualised public employment service on vulnerable people. It analyses a system Jobcentre Plus implemented in 2008, Accessing Jobcentre Plus Customer Services (AJCS), to improve customer services by minimising ‘footfall’ in local offices, encouraging the use of self-service facilities and targeting service delivery to the requirements of customers. The article shows that certain vulnerable groups, no…
Supporting moves into work: New Deal for Disabled People findings
New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) is a voluntary programme designed to help people with disabilities and health conditions secure (sustainable) employment. It was delivered through a national network of public, private and voluntary sector organizations (known as Job Brokers). This paper discusses the impact of NDDP and how its relative success was enabled by the wider institutional environment. NDDP was cost-beneficial in both reducing incapac…
In search of a welfare-to-work solution: The New Deal for Disabled People
The New Deal for Disabled People is the UK’s main employment programme for people claiming incapacity benefits. This article outlines the reasons given for its introduction and how it evolved from a pilot to a national programme. The programme has sought to encourage experimentation and innovation in service provision. Some of the criticisms made of the structure of the current programme, notably its funding regime, are highlighted. The article c…
Being more certain about Random Assignment in Social Policy Evaluations
Social experiments have been widely utilised in evaluations of social programmes in the US to identify ‘what works’, whilst in the UK their use is more controversial. This paper explores the paradigmatic, technical and practical issues evaluators confront in using randomised experiments to evaluate social policies. Possible remedies to some of these problems are outlined. It is argued that although no evaluation methodology is problem-free, polic…
Seeking Security: The Government's Green Paper on Pensions and the Royal Commission's Report on Long‐term Care
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Conflicts in organizational objectives: The management of local authorities’ mortgage arrears
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service
This article explores the impact of a more individualised public employment service on vulnerable people. It analyses a system Jobcentre Plus implemented in 2008, Accessing Jobcentre Plus Customer Services (AJCS), to improve customer services by minimising ‘footfall’ in local offices, encouraging the use of self-service facilities and targeting service delivery to the requirements of customers. The article shows that certain vulnerable groups, no…
Seeking Security: The Government's Green Paper on Pensions and the Royal Commission's Report on Long‐term Care
The impact of unemployment on home ownership
Much of housing policy in Britain and much of the theoretical literature is based on assumptions that home ownership, per se, provides certain distinctive and advantageous characteristics such as independence, security and wealth. This paper provides some empirical evidence as a corrective to these assumptions. It does so by locating their basis not inside but outside the tenure: in particular in the position of individual home owners in the labo…
Conflicts in organizational objectives: The management of local authorities’ mortgage arrears
Seeking Security: The Government's Green Paper on Pensions and the Royal Commission's Report on Long‐term Care
Being more certain about Random Assignment in Social Policy Evaluations
Social experiments have been widely utilised in evaluations of social programmes in the US to identify ‘what works’, whilst in the UK their use is more controversial. This paper explores the paradigmatic, technical and practical issues evaluators confront in using randomised experiments to evaluate social policies. Possible remedies to some of these problems are outlined. It is argued that although no evaluation methodology is problem-free, polic…
In search of a welfare-to-work solution: The New Deal for Disabled People
The New Deal for Disabled People is the UK’s main employment programme for people claiming incapacity benefits. This article outlines the reasons given for its introduction and how it evolved from a pilot to a national programme. The programme has sought to encourage experimentation and innovation in service provision. Some of the criticisms made of the structure of the current programme, notably its funding regime, are highlighted. The article c…
Supporting moves into work: New Deal for Disabled People findings
New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) is a voluntary programme designed to help people with disabilities and health conditions secure (sustainable) employment. It was delivered through a national network of public, private and voluntary sector organizations (known as Job Brokers). This paper discusses the impact of NDDP and how its relative success was enabled by the wider institutional environment. NDDP was cost-beneficial in both reducing incapac…
Bad evidence: The curious case of the government-commissioned review of elective home education in England and how parents exposed its weaknesses
Governments in the United Kingdom have been contracting out policy reviews to individuals. One such review, of elective home education in England, reveals serious shortcomings to this practice. This paper explores the shortcomings – methodological and presentational – with the review, and highlights the fact that there was no governmental mechanism or code against which a commissioned review can be held accountable. Although a select committee he…
Delivering Employment Services to Vulnerable Customers: A Case Study of the UK's Employment Service
This article explores the impact of a more individualised public employment service on vulnerable people. It analyses a system Jobcentre Plus implemented in 2008, Accessing Jobcentre Plus Customer Services (AJCS), to improve customer services by minimising ‘footfall’ in local offices, encouraging the use of self-service facilities and targeting service delivery to the requirements of customers. The article shows that certain vulnerable groups, no…
Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation
Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation." Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 19(5), pp. 503–504
Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works)