Get Britain Working? Continuity and Change in Labour’s Post-2024 Welfare and Employment Strategy

Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP The Social Policy Association is pleased to announce that Liverpool will host the 2026 event, [...]

A collaborative event to discuss digital and technological approaches to the design & delivery of welfare services in Scotland and the UK

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By Maria Izzo, Doctoral Researcher in Health and Social Policy, University of Glasgow. — Nina, a Ukrainian woman in her mid-seventies, lives and works in [...]

More than half of households in poverty now contain a working person, report finds

26th February 2026 2:30-4pm This webinar will bring together one of the ASAP UK election auditors with two academics from Wales and Scotland to discuss the current housing challenges in relation to ...

With funding from the CAHSS Interdisciplinary Fund, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Network for the Study of Work (NSW).

ASAP UK brings together a range of academics who have carried out a review of 9 key topics to consider the effectiveness of the public policy platforms in reducing poverty.

A dead metaphor is killing the government's ability to get things done

Labour's child poverty strategy offers some welcome measures, but it won't address the factors keeping families trapped in poverty

The move comes amid reports of issues with maintaining credit insurance just a month after the completion of a sale to private equity buyer Aurelius.

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Introduction: The proliferation of social media has raised significant concerns about its potential effects on the mental health of adolescents. This meta-analysis aims to provide a comprehensive asse...

Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party secured 9 million pounds ($12 million) from businessman Christopher Harborne in the third quarter of this year, the Electoral Commission said on Thursday, one o...

This article introduces the concept of “care obfuscation”, developed from interviews with 32 UK-based academic mothers about their experience of the transition to parenthood. Care obfuscation refers t...

Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in society. In fact it was aimed at the bond markets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

An extreme wealth line (EWL) defines a level where the harms associated with extreme wealth become socially unacceptable. It is not the same as a cap on wealth