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This work explores the association of social networks in understanding likelihood transitions principally into work or training and education achieved by clients in Scotland, and considers the context within which access to and mobilisation of social capital leads to successful employment status. From this perspective, the aim is to statistically evaluate the Working for Families program run by Scottish Government to help vulnerable and disadvantaged parents in some of most deprived areas in Scotland into sustained employment and training. The evaluation was obtained with aid of statistical methods, such as: exploratory analysis, cluster analysis and binomial logistic regression. According to the analyses, it was found that none of the social network variables had significant impact on the clients achieving transitions. The reason behind this finding might be relying upon the small sample size and large amount of missing data, but mainly should be due to that the clients were too poor to access their social capital or they did have access but could not mobilise it. The target audience of this work may comprise scholars, policy makers and researchers.