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My The Guardian story: Black and minority ethnic universal credit claimants disproportionately likely to be hit with benefit sanctions, new official statistics published for the first time shows theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

Are you free on Wednesday 2nd October? Come and join us University of Glasgow for the actual real life in person launch of my award-winning book on Women and Welfare Conditionality: lived experiences of benefit sanctions, work and welfare. eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-…

Book launch today! Exciting!! See you there if you can make it. 😃 eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-… policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/women-and-welf…

This is a really significant report showing how income top-ups from means-tested support outside of #UniversalCredit can leave some claimants worse off financially. For those who would be better off, lack of awareness & administrative burdens to apply means access is limited ⤵️

I know exactly what policy changes led to this happening, but I still do a double take when I read facts like these - from today's Institute for Fiscal Studies report on #childpoverty ifs.org.uk/publications/c…

At the launch of the latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation Poverty in Scotland report focused on the role of social security in our ability to #ChallengePoverty 👉social security is not keeping people out of poverty and has fallen in real-terms. 👉 people receiving social security do not feel secure

Scottish Child Payment has increased to a weekly payment of £26.70 paid every 4 weeks to eligible people. If you're part of an organisation supporting families, help us spread the word to by using the shareable content at: bit.ly/SCPSharedResou…

Check out this new comment piece drawing on our work in Scotland (and UK wide) with Child Poverty Action Group CPAG in Scotland Labour can and must tell a different story on social security.

Would you like to do a FUNDED PhD on #discourse of #poverty and #welfare? Apply NOW for this amazing opportunity with myself The Open University OU Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies to study how people in poverty and receiving welfare are depicted in #media and public conversation. 👉 wels.open.ac.uk/research/resea…

Woop woop! our Work, Employment & Society article on Welfare Conditionality and Job Quality now has a volume and issue number... enough of an excuse for another shameless plug? This was a real labour of love so I'm taking it! Prof Sharon Wright Prof Lisa Scullion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Social Security Scotland has three payments for unpaid carers, two of which are only available in Scotland. Young Carer Grant Carer Support Payment Carer's Allowance Supplement #CarersRightsDay Read more⬇️ bit.ly/CRD24

Latest figures show that over £1 billion has been paid out across our five family payments. Scottish Child Payment, Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods can be worth up to £10,000 by the time a child turns 16. Read more ⬇️

1/12 Our book, ‘Social Murder? Austerity and life expectancy in the UK’, by David Walsh and I, is out today. It details how mortality stopped improving in the UK and other countries as a result of austerity policies damaging the building blocks of health. Here’s a brief summary:

The two-child limit remains in place, and its impact will continue to grow as the policy affects an increasing number of children as time goes on. We estimate that an additional 63,000 children will become affected by the policy between now and April 2025.

📣New Joseph Rowntree Foundation research on ethnicity and persistent very deep poverty*. Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black African families are 5x more like to experience it than white families. We wanted to dig into the reasons…

PODCAST: #Austerity: The silent killer transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/12/03/pod… with David Walsh and myself being interviewed by Rich Kemp UofG Soc & Pol Sci Urban Studies & Social Policy UofG MVLS

Our five family payments help balance family costs if people get qualifying benefits. Find shareable social media content, flyers, posters and factsheets in many languages and help us spread the word to eligible families bit.ly/5FPSharedResou…

Adult Disability Payment, Child Disability Payment and Pension Age Disability Payment is extra money to help people if they have a disability or long-term health condition that affects their everyday life. Find out more at bit.ly/ScotGovDisabil…

Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity! Spread the word! Disabled People's Lived Experiences of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability Deadline: 10 April 2025 sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/di… University of Glasgow UofG Social Sciences UofG Soc & Pol Sci SGSSS

Hot off the press 😀 My new piece on migrant stay-return plans & how they are shaped by the #polycrisis of #Brexit & #Covid19. With thanks to the MigrantEssentialWorkers team for inspiring me to go solo. Shoutout to Aneta Piekut for generating the stats 🙌 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…