Deven Ghelani, Policy in Practice, spoke at the National Housing Federation's Welfare Reform Conference 2017 on Tuesday 24 January.
In Deven's short session he covered:
1. The impact of welfare reform policies. Governments may know how one policy affects many people but what's important, and what we've shown housing associations, is how all policies combined affect one person.
2. Policy in Practice analysis, featured in The Guardian, showed low income households will be worse off by £41.45 per week by 2020. In-work households are hit harder, they lose £48.90.
3. How we helped Newcastle CC and YHN to understand the impact of welfare reforms on households in Newcastle, and what they could do to help the most vulnerable households.
4. How housing associations can use data to assess risk and revealed details, via our project with HACT and OCSI
These are his slides.
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#NHFWelfare The cumulative impact of welfare reform
1. Policy in Practice
Deven Ghelani The cumulative impact of
welfare reform
#NHFwelfarereform
January 2017
2. We make the welfare system
simple to understand, so that
people can make the decisions
that are right for them
3. The impact of welfare reform policies
Governments may know how one policy affects many people. We can show how all
policies combined affect one person.
5. Our approach:
• We looked at 187,475 real
families across 17 local
authorities
• We modelled the impact
of all welfare reforms
shown on the previous
slide
The impact on low-income families
7. A summary of the impacts
• Low income households are £41.45 worse off by 2020
• In-work households are hit harder still - £48.90
• The loss from welfare reforms is £381m, while support through DHPs is
£11m for these authorities
• By tenure, PRS is hardest hit:
• £49.40 / week
• £31.98 / week
• 3% report income to be less than their housing costs!
• One in ten are in TA - shifting £3,510 in cost to the local authority
8. Newcastle City Council and YHN
• Comprehensive report on the impact of
welfare reform
• Detailed household level dataset
• Target the right support, to the right
households before they are impacted
10. “Mrs Jones near
Spring Lane is
£5,009 in arrears
with a shortfall of
£371 per month, and
will be £54.38 per
month worse off as a
result of the benefit
cap and has high
barriers to work.”
Your data can tell you that …
11. What would you do with that level of
detail?
Get involved
12. Using housing data to assess risk
• Partnering with HACT and OCSI
• Project to understand which neighbourhoods will be most impacted by welfare
reform
• Currently recruiting HAs to help:
• agree key indicators of risk of welfare reform,
• outline what LA, HA or open data can feed into these indicators
• assess the benefit of that data at a neighbourhood level
• You can also partner with neighbouring Local Authorities
• Visit Stand 1 to find out more and sign up
13. • Support your advisors :
• To show residents the
benefits of work.
• explain a changing
welfare system.
• Budget better under
Universal Credit
• Three new features
• Hovers show exactly how
a calculation was reached
• Cash flow impact of
weekly earnings
• Slide hours / earnings for
flexible jobs
The frontline adviser
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Visit Leo on stand 1:
HACT / OCSI project
household level datasets
Benefit Calculator 3.0
Policy led software and consulting business.
We believe that change happens on the frontline. Our mission is to reduce poverty by making the welfare system simple for people and organisations to understand.
4 different government departments
Now and into the future
This is show a timeline of all the changes / reforms at a national level –
-show how much change is coming over the 5 years and the huge task LA have in getting these changes implemented.
now more than ever communication between LA’s, 3rd party organisations and residents is needed. Helping residents understand what this all means for them.
We have known each other for some time, I remember meeting Alison at Northgate conference with Paul Howarth and have a shared interest in delivering local welfare effectively.
We have worked together in the past, we delivered a comprehensive report on the impact of welfare reform and a detailed household level dataset.