Devolution has offered Scotland the chance to reshape social security around the voices of those who use it. Drawing on findings from Changing Realities, this article examines how these devolved polic...

Research gives us an insight into what families have experienced through years of rising costs.

Now I'm worried that all of that work could be pushed aside.

Examining the impact of the Scottish Child Payment in comparative perspective

This article presents a psychosocial study of men unable to work due to mental illness and their encounters with the UK’s social security system, using the Free Association Narrative Interview (FANI) ...

Exclusive: The current system is ‘simply wrong’, more than 30 organisations write

Scottish family on low income receives £15,000 more a year than identical household in England

Changing Realities will be hosting a public-facing roundtable session from our mental health campaign

Changing Realities will be hosting a public-facing roundtable session from our mental health campaign

Join us online to explore how cash transfers are changing kids' lives in RoI and Scotland!

A working father describes how talk of a cost of living crisis misses the point that it’s now a cost of survival crisis for many in the UK

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...

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...

Join us for the launch of our new website - criticalsocialpolicy.com

This Call for Evidence is being administered by DWP on behalf of the Timms Review steering group and seeks to gather feedback and insight relating to the areas outlined in the Terms of Reference of th...

Tribunal finds Black cleaners were kept on worse pay and conditions than other NHS staff

It was a lot. I didn’t realise I’d be placed all over social media. I thought it would be just a couple of pictures for something, but it is what it is now. I have thought about it a lot this morning and I had to put my thoughts down on paper.

The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Join us for a virtual webinar where we will discuss the recent welfare reform proposals in the UK and RoI.

“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit

The government has committed to tackling poverty among all children, including those subject to the UK’s asylum and immigration system. But recent reforms and proposals to immigration policy mean that...

A report says Rachel Reeves must raise taxes to cover £41bn gap.