Dignity and Respect: workshop on new Social Security arrangements in Scotland
Round-up of the Carnegie UK/Policy Scotland workshop on embedding Dignity and Respect in the Scottish Social Security system.
I, Daniel Blake ‘an accurate representation of austerity Britain’
Dr Margaret Craig, GP in Possilpark and Springburn, Glasgow, was consulted by scriptwriter Paul Laverty for the development of ‘I, Daniel Blake’.
Research shows sanctions regime failing by even its own standards
About a study that found that welfare sanctions not only create ‘widespread anxiety’ in claimants but saw some people forced to turn to crime to survive after seeing their benefits cut.
Practitioner Blog: Johanna Spiers, Welfare Reform Third Sector Co-ordinator, GCVS
Description of a project experimenting with approaches ‘To increase citizen participation in the welfare reform agenda’.
Tackling Britain’s Misleading Benefit Sanctions Statistics
A review of the effectiveness of sanctions’, i.e. withdrawals of benefit, against claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Credit where it’s due?
Martin Taulbut, Public Health Information Manager, NHS Health Scotland, discusses Universal Credit, public health and the Scottish labour market.
Working with the real welfare reform experts
How people with lived experience of the welfare system can become more involved in the design, development and delivery of the services they use.
9th June – Welfare Reform Network – Welfare Conditionality Social Security in Scotland
Event to present First Wave findings from the ESRC ‘Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change’ project.
Benefit Sanctions and the Rule of Law
The enormous growth in the severity, the scope and the incidence of benefit sanctions in the UK since the turn of the century
A Fast Flowing Stream: Welfare Reform, Decision Making and Appeals
At this Policy Scotland Welfare Reform Network event, Jessica Burns provided insight into her work as Regional Tribunal Judge in Social Security and Child Support.