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This chapter analyses public attitudes towards spending on disability benefits and relevant trends in attitudes to welfare spending more broadly.

An impossible move? Households’ experiences of trying to escape the UK’s benefit cap

Andy Burnham's new cabinet meets for the first time.

Job Purpose You will contribute to an exciting, major project, Safety Nets, exploring the relationship between devolution and social security in the UK working in a team led by Professor Ruth Patri...

Examining the impact of the Scottish Child Payment in comparative perspective

The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. A world top 100 university. The University of Glasgow is a major research-led university operating in an international context with the following fundamental ...

Trying to make ends meet is an impossible effort, and things are rapidly getting worse. It’s time the government listened to people like us, says Ella Michalski of Changing Realities, a project workin...

From Katharine Sutton, Managing Director, Aspire Community Works, London E2, UK

The schools white paper must be a turning point for Send provision

The schools white paper must be a turning point for Send provision

He fused an echo of Enoch Powell with the spirit of the far right’s great replacement theory. This is no way to progress a humane migration debate, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future

The Schools White Paper is a vital opportunity to reform school support so that it works for all children. Changing Realities parents, who are all raising children on a low income, have set out what they would like to see in the White Paper on SEND reforms, parental engagement, and on the government’s approach to enrichment. Parents want to work directly with government to deliver the ambitious changes needed. While we may not agree on everything, one thing on which we all – and we believe government too – do agree is that the current system of SEND support is completely broken, and requires urgent and radical reform.

Conservative peer and former Ofsted chair Baroness Spielman talks to Sienna Rodgers about the SEND crisis, her time at the regulator and why some p...

Abstract. This commentary explores lived experiences of social security and poverty, drawing on qualitative data generated over 11 years, and across four r

EVERY day, around 125 babies are born in Scotland. Each new life represents a new beginning but also significant, and often scary, changes for their…

EVERY day, around 125 babies are born in Scotland. Each new life represents a new beginning but also significant, and often scary, changes for their…

Free and equal? The realities of lived experiences of food aid in the UK