Naomi Finch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Finch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Finch |
| SIGNATURE | FINCH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5753-1783 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Appraising the UK Labour Government’s Early Approach to Reforming Parental Leave
This article critically appraises the UK Labour government’s early approach to parental leave reform following the 2024 election, comparing pre-election promises with post-election policy directions. Drawing on Daly’s conceptualisation of care as a policy good (Daly, 2002), we analyse Labour’s reforms across three overlapping dimensions central to their pre-election pledges: access and pay levels, leave design and entitlements, and inclusion of d…
Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during Covid‐19
This article substantially extends the existing constitutional and legal critiques of the use of soft law public health guidance in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing upon the findings of a national survey undertaken during the first wave of the pandemic in June 2020, it shows how the perceived legal status of lockdown rules made a significant difference as to whether the UK public complied with them and that this effect is a product of…
Inclusive citizenship and degenderization
This paper argues that welfare state progress needs to be based upon support for “inclusive citizenship” – the right to care, work and earn. Comparative analyses of welfare have often focused on defamilization to capture these dimensions. But inclusive citizenship requires challenging gender roles in both work (public sphere) and care (private sphere), and thus the paper argues that the concept of degenderization is a more suitable analytical too…
Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion
Lone parenthood has had an increasingly high profile as the focus of research and policy over the last 40 years. This is partly because lone parenthood has been increasing, and has continued to do so in recent years. Between 1991 and 1998, the proportion of all families headed by a lone parent rose from 18% to 26% (Marsh and Perry, 2003). Between 30% and 40% of all children in Britain will spend part of their life in a lone-parent family (Rowling…
Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion
Lone Parents and Informal Childcare
The Labour government aims to increase the lone parent employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010. To achieve this aim, it has introduced a state subsidy for childcare in the form of the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit. So far this has been limited to formal childcare despite evidence that lone parents are more likely to use informal childcare. This article investigates the potential of a state subsidy to be extended to support informal c…
Housing benefits in 22 countries
Housing benefit is an important component of the tax/benefit package. This article compares the contribution that housing benefit makes to the structure and value of the package paid to families with children in 22 countries in July 2001. It describes the demand-side housing subsidies that exist. It then examines how the value of housing benefit varies by family type and earnings level, using the model family method. Compared with other countries…
Overlaps in Dimensions of Poverty
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey of Britain made it possible first time to explore poverty using three different measures applied at the same time on the same sample. The measures were: lacking socially perceived necessities; being subjectively poor and having a relatively low income. These approaches are all commonly used to identify the poor and to measure poverty but rarely if ever in combination. In this article we have found that ther…
Overlaps in Dimensions of Poverty
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey of Britain made it possible first time to explore poverty using three different measures applied at the same time on the same sample. The measures were: lacking socially perceived necessities; being subjectively poor and having a relatively low income. These approaches are all commonly used to identify the poor and to measure poverty but rarely if ever in combination. In this article we have found that ther…
Lone Parents and Informal Childcare
The Labour government aims to increase the lone parent employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010. To achieve this aim, it has introduced a state subsidy for childcare in the form of the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit. So far this has been limited to formal childcare despite evidence that lone parents are more likely to use informal childcare. This article investigates the potential of a state subsidy to be extended to support informal c…
Inclusive citizenship and degenderization
This paper argues that welfare state progress needs to be based upon support for “inclusive citizenship” – the right to care, work and earn. Comparative analyses of welfare have often focused on defamilization to capture these dimensions. But inclusive citizenship requires challenging gender roles in both work (public sphere) and care (private sphere), and thus the paper argues that the concept of degenderization is a more suitable analytical too…
Overlaps in Dimensions of Poverty
The Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey of Britain made it possible first time to explore poverty using three different measures applied at the same time on the same sample. The measures were: lacking socially perceived necessities; being subjectively poor and having a relatively low income. These approaches are all commonly used to identify the poor and to measure poverty but rarely if ever in combination. In this article we have found that ther…
Housing benefits in 22 countries
Housing benefit is an important component of the tax/benefit package. This article compares the contribution that housing benefit makes to the structure and value of the package paid to families with children in 22 countries in July 2001. It describes the demand-side housing subsidies that exist. It then examines how the value of housing benefit varies by family type and earnings level, using the model family method. Compared with other countries…
Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion
Lone parenthood has had an increasingly high profile as the focus of research and policy over the last 40 years. This is partly because lone parenthood has been increasing, and has continued to do so in recent years. Between 1991 and 1998, the proportion of all families headed by a lone parent rose from 18% to 26% (Marsh and Perry, 2003). Between 30% and 40% of all children in Britain will spend part of their life in a lone-parent family (Rowling…
Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion
Lone Parents and Informal Childcare
The Labour government aims to increase the lone parent employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010. To achieve this aim, it has introduced a state subsidy for childcare in the form of the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit. So far this has been limited to formal childcare despite evidence that lone parents are more likely to use informal childcare. This article investigates the potential of a state subsidy to be extended to support informal c…
Inclusive citizenship and degenderization
This paper argues that welfare state progress needs to be based upon support for “inclusive citizenship” – the right to care, work and earn. Comparative analyses of welfare have often focused on defamilization to capture these dimensions. But inclusive citizenship requires challenging gender roles in both work (public sphere) and care (private sphere), and thus the paper argues that the concept of degenderization is a more suitable analytical too…
Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during Covid‐19
This article substantially extends the existing constitutional and legal critiques of the use of soft law public health guidance in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing upon the findings of a national survey undertaken during the first wave of the pandemic in June 2020, it shows how the perceived legal status of lockdown rules made a significant difference as to whether the UK public complied with them and that this effect is a product of…
Appraising the UK Labour Government’s Early Approach to Reforming Parental Leave
This article critically appraises the UK Labour government’s early approach to parental leave reform following the 2024 election, comparing pre-election promises with post-election policy directions. Drawing on Daly’s conceptualisation of care as a policy good (Daly, 2002), we analyse Labour’s reforms across three overlapping dimensions central to their pre-election pledges: access and pay levels, leave design and entitlements, and inclusion of d…
Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social exclusion (3 works) · Business (2 works)