"The personal adviser approach based on a one-to-one model is totally adequate for most people but it doesn't work for everyone," said Freud at a Conservative conference fringe event, Getting Families to Work.
"Negative attitudes to work are reinforced if everyone in your household is unemployed. Unemployment is entrenched in families."
He said a new government would need to support programmes that "work with the family to break that mould of worklessness" but he cautioned that "to find out what works will take time, patience and skill", adding: "There will be big fees available [to any organisation] for getting the hardest to help back into the workforce."
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