| Title: |
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality |
| Authors: |
Payne, Jonathan; Rose, Jonathan; Butler, Peter |
| Publisher Information: |
Wiley |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
De Montfort University, Leicester: Open Research Archive (DORA) |
| Subject Terms: |
employability; job quality; third sector; UK |
| Description: |
open access article ; Many third-sector organisations (TSOs) deliver employability support for vulnerable groups, but can they address the quality of jobs their users enter? The question is timely in the UK, given structural constraints presented by its neoliberal labour market and welfare regime, and the new Labour Government’s aim of moving job centres towards a supportive approach focused on ‘good work’. An interesting comparison emerges with Scotland, where ‘fair work’ is more established in policy. Drawing upon third-sector literature, we develop an analytical framework for exploring TSOs’ engagement with job quality, centred around framing suitable employment/employers, shaping user choices and shaping employer practice. Using surveys and interviews with TSO managers in England and Scotland, we find TSOs can adopt different strategies and that Scotland’s approach may make a difference, underscoring the role of policy paradigms and power in structuring the limits of possibility. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Payne, J., Rose, J. and Butler, P. (2025) The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality. Social Policy & Administration; https://hdl.handle.net/2086/25182; https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13162 |
| DOI: |
10.1111/spol.13162 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/2086/25182; https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13162 |
| Rights: |
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.11BDB36C |
| Database: |
BASE |