A PILOT project in the North-East to help single parents get back to work is to be introduced nationwide, the chancellor of the Exchequer announced yesterday.
Gordon Brown, launching the New Deal for Lone Parents programme, said Britain lags too far behind Europe and the United States in the number of working single parents and said he wanted to see seven out of ten single parents in work.
The expanded scheme, called Choices, piloted in South Tyneside, was to be introduced the rest of the country next April.
Mr Brown said: "Since we came into government we've introduced the New Deal for Lone Parents, and this month, we are launching a pilot programme to bring the numbers of lone parents in work up from 50 per cent to 70 per cent, a similar level to Europe and America.
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