Mr Cameron's new language initiative for Muslim women: lessons in policy implementation

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Turner, Royce and Wigfield, Andrea 2016. Mr Cameron's new language initiative for Muslim women: lessons in policy implementation. The Political Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12254
AuthorsTurner, Royce and Wigfield, Andrea
Abstract

As the government announces a programme to teach Muslim women to speak English, this article examines how such a policy can be implemented successfully, arguing that lessons can be drawn from both academic research, especially that carried out with Muslim women themselves, and previous successful policy application. It focuses on two projects carried out in the recent past for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Jobcentre Plus, and outlines the key factors that led to their success. The LSC project involved one of the largest in‐depth surveys of Muslim women's attitudes towards work, and their views on life in Britain, that has ever been undertaken. The Jobcentre Plus project was a highly successful and innovative employment training initiative for ethnic minority women piloted in Sheffield, the very kind of ‘targeted’ approach that Mr Cameron has claimed his government's new language initiative will be.

KeywordsEthnic minority. Women. English Language. David Cameron.
Year2016
JournalThe Political Quarterly
PublisherWiley Blackwell
ISSN1467923X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12254
https://doi.org/00323179
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624194
hdl:10545/624194
Publication dates19 May 2016
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Deposited07 Oct 2019, 14:12
Accepted06 May 2016
ContributorsUniversity of Huddersfield
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