Single mothers on benefits are to be made to actively seek a job as soon as their youngest child reaches 11, in a government clampdown on unemployment in lone parent households.

The best way to help their children is 'by bringing a wage home', ministers will say. The

drive to get more lone parents of secondary school-aged children into jobs is to be launched by David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in a Green Paper on 'Welfare to Work'.

Single mothers on benefits with children in secondary school must engage in ...

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