employment Option, and those on post-Option advice were the most likely to report
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having left New Deal at some point (Table 6 1).Table 6 1 Percentage of respondents who hadstoppedNew Deal at some point,bycurrent NewDealstatus
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Gateway 19 1485
EmploymentOption 39 606
VoluntarysectorOption 4 173
EnvironmentTaskForce 10 133
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Post-Option advice 28 429
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as they transferred onto the employment Option.Ten per cent of current Gateway participants and 13 per Cent of those on post-Option
advice reported leaving New Deal for a job at some point. This indicates that they had
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left the programme forjobs that had not lasted long.Only 1 per cent reported leaving New Deal to claim other benefits, yet 14 per cent left the programme due to sickness, injury or disability, and a further 2 per cent left due to
pregnancy These reasons for leaving may have involved benefit claims, although not
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to go into full-time education and training However, 44 per cent of these respondents
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Tostart work as self.ernployed 2To look after thehome 6
To go into full-time education/training 7 Became long-term sick,injured,disabled 13
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Prison/remand/criminal proceedingsMoved onto other benefits/partner claiming 1I
Went abroad/moved awayI decided tosign off/leave ND 22U
IBenefit stopped/reduced/suspendedwas signed off/takenoffND 31Missed appointment/didn’tsign on
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New Deal fortwo reasons. First, some gave reasons for leaving or stopping New Deal which were not related to where they were going on leaving the programme. Secondly, • many were reporting reasons for a temporary interruption to their participation on the programme However, respondents’ first labour market destinations on leaving New • Deal were identified by matching data collected on work histories and New DealU
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histories First destinations are defined as what the respondent was doing in the weeks
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— Gateway leavers Option leavers All
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Full-tune job (30-i- hours per week) 33 21 30
Pan-timejob (under30 hours per week) 10 10 10
Self-employed 1 3 2
Government/TECFLEC programme 1 2 2
Full-tuneeducation or training 2 7 4
Unemployed claiming benefits 20 30 23
Unemployed, not claimingbenefits 15 16 15
Long-term sick, injured or disabled 10 7 9
Looking afterfamily or home 5 3 4
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Unweig#uedbase 1196 — 447 1643
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Deal Gateway leavers were more hkely than Options leavers to have entered a job (43per cent against 31 per cent) and they were less likely to have become unemployed (35
per cent against 46 per cent). This finding may reflect the timing of the intel-view about
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six months after starting New Deal, so that many of those who had left Options werelikely to have been non-completers3 6 3 Characteristics ofleavers and stayers
This section compares the characteristics of those who were on New Deal at thetime of the survey interview (‘stayers’) with those who had left the programme by that point
(‘leavers’). An understanding of which participants remained on the programme gives an
in-sight into how the programme is operating Often, the more ‘able’ participants in a
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programme leave before the end because they have moved into jobs or taken up otherTherefore,this analysis is conducted on therespondents leaving on or after Gateway or an Option It does
not include leaverswithlittleor no recallofNew Deal,sincetheydidnot providedateinformation on their
participation inNewDeal. The analysisin Sections 3and4 ofthechapter isbased onall leavers.
2In 25 percentofcases,the respondent’s labourmarket destination was an activity that had actually begun
before their entry to New Deal inthe inajontyofcases,this was a spell of unemployment In these
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instances,respondentsdid not view participation in NewDealas affecting theirlabourmarket status 3Theexperienceofparticipants entering post-Option advicewill be covered in thesecond wave analysis
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These are among the issues exploredunwilling to ‘stay the course’ if the programme- is too demanding or not to their liking.belowU
in what follows, distinctions are made between three categories of leaver.