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.
Description of a project experimenting with approaches ‘To increase citizen participation in the welfare reform agenda’.
A review of the effectiveness of sanctions’, i.e. withdrawals of benefit, against claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Martin Taulbut, Public Health Information Manager, NHS Health Scotland, discusses Universal Credit, public health and the Scottish labour market.
Event to present First Wave findings from the ESRC ‘Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change’ project.
Events sharing data and insights from researchers working on the Social Support and Migration in Scotland (SSAMIS) project.
Summary of the launch of the Policy Scotland Welfare Reform Network with the event ‘Sanctions in Scotland: evidence, policy in practice and impacts’.