The document summarizes major UK welfare reforms being implemented between 2011-2017, including:
1) Migration to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Work Programme, with concerns about fewer referrals to the latter.
2) Introduction of flat-rate state pension and increasing pension age to 67 by 2028.
3) Tax credit changes reducing amounts and tightening eligibility rules.
4) Implementation of Personal Independence Payment to replace Disability Living Allowance for working-age claimants.
5) Introduction of a household benefit cap and limits to social housing sizes eligible for full housing benefit.
6) Rollout of Universal Credit to gradually replace six working-age benefits by 2017.
Long-term care reform in Slovenia: financing perspective - Eva Zver, SloveniaOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Eva Zver, Slovenia, at the 4th meeting of the Joint DELSA/GOV-SBO Network on Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems, held in Paris on 16-17 February 2015.
Policy in Practice present local initiatives to support vulnerable households...Policy in Practice
Policy in Practice present local initiatives to support vulnerable households to the Utility Sector.
-Make your social tariffs accessible through GOV.UK
-Give holistic support to vulnerable consumers
-Use data to provide more targeted support
Long-term care reform in Slovenia: financing perspective - Eva Zver, SloveniaOECD Governance
This presentation was made by Eva Zver, Slovenia, at the 4th meeting of the Joint DELSA/GOV-SBO Network on Fiscal Sustainability of Health Systems, held in Paris on 16-17 February 2015.
Policy in Practice present local initiatives to support vulnerable households...Policy in Practice
Policy in Practice present local initiatives to support vulnerable households to the Utility Sector.
-Make your social tariffs accessible through GOV.UK
-Give holistic support to vulnerable consumers
-Use data to provide more targeted support
2020 has brought fundamental changes to our lives, both personally and professionally. As our economy took second place to our health, so the welfare safety net came to the fore to support families who faced an income shock, seemingly overnight.
In this webinar Deven Ghelani, Zoe Charlesworth, Paul Howarth and Duncan Hatfield looked back at the policy response to the seismic shifts in our economy and society wrought by the pandemic. We revisited the research findings we uncovered from our analysis for clients across both local and central government. And, as the focus turns to the health of our economy, we look at what 2021 means for people facing redundancy, debt or lower incomes.
Listen back to the webinar to hear:
- How well the COVID-19 welfare changes worked, and what should happen next
- How living standards changed this year, and what the future holds
- The outlook for 2021 and how organisations can best support families
Our policy experts will discuss our analysis and what this means in 2021 for council tax support schemes, housing and homelessness demand, the outlook for living standards in the context of economic recovery, Universal Credit and Brexit.
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
We held a workshop in Flintshire in April for local authorities who are curious about what their data can tell them. Hosted by Peter Carter and Terrin Mathew, attendees from across Wales and the North West compared notes about the challenges of the welfare reforms and the rollout of Universal Credit, and how they're each using their data now.
The workshop inspired people with stories of success elsewhere and helped them to build the case for using local authority held datasets to better target your support for vulnerable households.
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
NCOSS Community Budget Briefing 2013-14 NSW State Budget_ncoss_
NCOSS analysis of the 2013-14 NSW budget papers at a community sector forum on 19 June 2013, from 2pm-4pm. Proceedings will be webcast via ncoss.org.au/webcast
Paul Howarth, Policy Consultant for Policy in Practice was invited to speak at the Westminster Briefing in November 2019 on the topic of 'Welfare reforms and reducing rent arrears'.
This presentation provided a detailed look of the current benefits system, a forecast of the latest Universal Credit updates as well as an overview of Policy in Practice's data-led approach to tackling poverty and reducing rent arrears.
For further information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk.
Regardless of an individual's age, appropriate retirement planning or contributions to pension plan is quintessential to ensure a secure living after retirement. at http://maryrue03august.bravesites.com/entries/financial-services/personal-pension-plan
View the slides from our webinar: 2018: A policy review of the year. We were joined by guest speakers Deven Ghelani and Paul Howarth, Policy in Practice.
We reviewed the social policy analysis we delivered for clients in 2018 and recapped on key findings we uncovered. We also discussed what this means for local organisations in 2019.
Find out what we learnt about:
Homelessness and housing
Changing living standards of low income households
Universal Credit's impact on people
Universal Credit's impact on frontline organisations
For more information please visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk.
Current Challenges and the Future Direction of Social Security ReformPolicy in Practice
Westminster Insight’s timely Welfare Reform Forum explored how to process the huge upsurge in claims, improving advice for those dealing with immediate cash flow problems, changing assessment processes to safeguard claimants, identifying people falling through gaps in the system and supporting the most vulnerable people financially affected by the pandemic.
Zoe's keynote address covered:
- The implications of the Government’s response to COVID 19 on the social security system
- Improving system design, delivery, flexibility and speed to support people in times of crisis
- Ensuring the social security system can weather the longer-term effects of the crisis
- Creating a person-centred, holistic and supportive social security system
How to target your Discretionary Housing Payments wellPolicy in Practice
It's hard for local authorities to be sure that support is reaching the households that need help the most. We know that 9 in 10 applications for a Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) are successful, yet only 1 in 5 households that need a DHP apply. We help local authorities carry out a full needs assessment, as recommended by the DWP, using housing benefit data to create insights that will make council's DHP funds go further.
In this webinar we looked at levels of financial resilience and the need for Discretionary Housing Payments. We were joined by Ellie Kershaw, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, who spoke about how they spend DHP money in line with their local priorities and how they're raising awareness and increasing referrals from those in need.
View the slides to see how our LIFT Dashboard and Benefit and Budgeting Calculator helps LB Tower Hamlets to:
- ensure the consistency of help given by frontline staff
- reduce the time it takes staff to understand eligibility for a DHP
- evidence how well their DHP strategy is working
To find out more visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242
2020 has brought fundamental changes to our lives, both personally and professionally. As our economy took second place to our health, so the welfare safety net came to the fore to support families who faced an income shock, seemingly overnight.
In this webinar Deven Ghelani, Zoe Charlesworth, Paul Howarth and Duncan Hatfield looked back at the policy response to the seismic shifts in our economy and society wrought by the pandemic. We revisited the research findings we uncovered from our analysis for clients across both local and central government. And, as the focus turns to the health of our economy, we look at what 2021 means for people facing redundancy, debt or lower incomes.
Listen back to the webinar to hear:
- How well the COVID-19 welfare changes worked, and what should happen next
- How living standards changed this year, and what the future holds
- The outlook for 2021 and how organisations can best support families
Our policy experts will discuss our analysis and what this means in 2021 for council tax support schemes, housing and homelessness demand, the outlook for living standards in the context of economic recovery, Universal Credit and Brexit.
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
We held a workshop in Flintshire in April for local authorities who are curious about what their data can tell them. Hosted by Peter Carter and Terrin Mathew, attendees from across Wales and the North West compared notes about the challenges of the welfare reforms and the rollout of Universal Credit, and how they're each using their data now.
The workshop inspired people with stories of success elsewhere and helped them to build the case for using local authority held datasets to better target your support for vulnerable households.
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
NCOSS Community Budget Briefing 2013-14 NSW State Budget_ncoss_
NCOSS analysis of the 2013-14 NSW budget papers at a community sector forum on 19 June 2013, from 2pm-4pm. Proceedings will be webcast via ncoss.org.au/webcast
Paul Howarth, Policy Consultant for Policy in Practice was invited to speak at the Westminster Briefing in November 2019 on the topic of 'Welfare reforms and reducing rent arrears'.
This presentation provided a detailed look of the current benefits system, a forecast of the latest Universal Credit updates as well as an overview of Policy in Practice's data-led approach to tackling poverty and reducing rent arrears.
For further information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk.
Regardless of an individual's age, appropriate retirement planning or contributions to pension plan is quintessential to ensure a secure living after retirement. at http://maryrue03august.bravesites.com/entries/financial-services/personal-pension-plan
View the slides from our webinar: 2018: A policy review of the year. We were joined by guest speakers Deven Ghelani and Paul Howarth, Policy in Practice.
We reviewed the social policy analysis we delivered for clients in 2018 and recapped on key findings we uncovered. We also discussed what this means for local organisations in 2019.
Find out what we learnt about:
Homelessness and housing
Changing living standards of low income households
Universal Credit's impact on people
Universal Credit's impact on frontline organisations
For more information please visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk.
Current Challenges and the Future Direction of Social Security ReformPolicy in Practice
Westminster Insight’s timely Welfare Reform Forum explored how to process the huge upsurge in claims, improving advice for those dealing with immediate cash flow problems, changing assessment processes to safeguard claimants, identifying people falling through gaps in the system and supporting the most vulnerable people financially affected by the pandemic.
Zoe's keynote address covered:
- The implications of the Government’s response to COVID 19 on the social security system
- Improving system design, delivery, flexibility and speed to support people in times of crisis
- Ensuring the social security system can weather the longer-term effects of the crisis
- Creating a person-centred, holistic and supportive social security system
How to target your Discretionary Housing Payments wellPolicy in Practice
It's hard for local authorities to be sure that support is reaching the households that need help the most. We know that 9 in 10 applications for a Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) are successful, yet only 1 in 5 households that need a DHP apply. We help local authorities carry out a full needs assessment, as recommended by the DWP, using housing benefit data to create insights that will make council's DHP funds go further.
In this webinar we looked at levels of financial resilience and the need for Discretionary Housing Payments. We were joined by Ellie Kershaw, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, who spoke about how they spend DHP money in line with their local priorities and how they're raising awareness and increasing referrals from those in need.
View the slides to see how our LIFT Dashboard and Benefit and Budgeting Calculator helps LB Tower Hamlets to:
- ensure the consistency of help given by frontline staff
- reduce the time it takes staff to understand eligibility for a DHP
- evidence how well their DHP strategy is working
To find out more visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242
Webinar: Council tax support Models that Members can sign up toPolicy in Practice
Listen back to hear Policy in Practice in conversation with Allan Clark, Barnet Council, to learn how they're changing their council tax support scheme for Universal Credit.
We cover how Policy in Practice's comprehensive impact modelling provided the data that Barnet Council's Members needed to agree amended schemes with confidence.
Listen back to learn:
- How LAs’ CTS schemes have evolved since they were first introduced
- What factors Barnet modelled, and why
- What schemes Barnet considered, rejected and implemented
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
Large Scale roll-out of telehealth/Telecare : approach and examples – Scotla...flanderscare
Wat is de toekomst van zorg op afstand in Vlaanderen? Dat was de centrale vraag van het event van 17 juni. 100 deelnemers dachten hier samen over na. Studiebezoeken aan andere Europese regio's toonden dat daar reeds op grote schaal met telecare en telehealth gewerkt en geëxperimenteerd wordt.
Zoe Charlesworth, Head of Policy at Policy in Practice, spoke at the IRRV Virtual Annual Conference about those people who have struggled or missed out on support due to COVID-19 uncertainty.
The new COVID-19 schemes operate alongside means-tested benefits, pay different amounts and cater to different kinds of eligibility, resulting in a wide yet inequitable net of support. Zoe Charlesworth presents analysis by Policy in Practice that looked at over 2,500 individual cases of households who struggled with or missed out on support. Zoe will explore the characteristics of eight groups who you should watch out for as you advise residents, and a worked example of surplus earnings rules. Delegates learnt who missed out on support, what impact of COVID-19 support has had on inequality and, practically, who will need more guidance as their circumstances change.
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk
IRRV virtual conference 2020: COVID-19 who has fallen between the gaps?Policy in Practice
In October 2020 Zoe Charlesworth, Head of Policy Operations presented to IRRV Annual Conference and Exhibition attendees on COVID-19: Who has fallen between the gaps?
Watch the full presentation: www.policyinpractice.co.uk/IRRV-2020
For more information please visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk
Universal Credit and Work and Health: practical experiences from the frontlinePolicy in Practice
This presentation was delivered at the Employment and Skills Conference 2019 by Deven Ghelani, Director and Founder, Policy in Practice, and Marise Mackie, Head of Employment Devon and Cornwall, Seetec Pluss
One year on from the introduction of the Work and Health Programme we take a look at how the rollout is going in the South West and see what impact Universal Credit is having. Marise Mackie, Head of Employment Devon and Cornwall from Pluss, will outline some of the challenges and successes from the last 12 months and share the stories of some of the people they've helped. Deven Ghelani, Director and Founder of Policy in Practice, will provide an updated policy context and share findings of new analysis of Universal Credit.
Watch Asher's story (slide 12) here https://youtu.be/pGGUe1zfcPo
Watch Tim's story (slide 15) here https://youtu.be/LRZhPsIX37g
For more information please visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk, call 0330 088 9242 or email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk
The Policy Team at Nottingham City Council has created this information booklet to help advisors, agencies and citizens understand the changes to welfare coming from April 2016 and beyond.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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1. Welfare reform- an update
London Advice Conference – 3 July 2012
Ros White
Editor
www.rightsnet.org.uk
2. Themes of welfare reform
• simplification of the benefit
system
• reduction in spending
• making work pay
• getting claimants back to work
3. ESA and Work Programme
• 1.5m incapacity benefit claimants being migrated
to ESA between Feb 2011 to March 2014;
• of 114,000 who started reassessment process
before July 2011, 63% entitled to ESA (34%
WRA group and 29% support group);
• Minister for Employment says 700,000 people
now on work programme;
• less ESA referrals than expected to Work
Programme causing concern to providers.
4. Pensions Bill (May 2012)
• introduction of flat rate state pension
higher than pension credit (£140?)
• brings forward increase in pension
age to 67 between 2026 and 2028
• commitment to increasing pension age in
future in line with changes in longevity
5. Tax credit changes include -
• April 2011 – taper on income reduced from 39% to 41%,
childcare element reduced from 80% to 70% of costs
• April 2012 – hours requirement increase for couples from
16 to 24 combined, freeze in adult elements, reduction in
backdating from 3 to 1 months, 50+ element abolished
NB – tax credits to be superseded by universal credit from
2013
6. Welfare Reform Act 2012
[the biggest shake up of the system for 60 years]
‘Our reforms will end the absurdity of a system where
people too often get rewarded for doing the wrong thing,
and those who strive to do the best by their families get
penalised … [and] will put work, rather than hand-outs, at
the heart of the welfare system.’
Iain Duncan Smith | February 2011
7. Personal
independence
payment
Housing
Universal Benefit
benefit
credit cap
changes
Localisation
of the
social fund
8. Other measures include -
• limiting awards of contributory ESA to maximum
of 365 days – May 2012
• lone parent with children 5 and over to claim
jobseeker’s allowance – May 2012
• more stringent sanction regime – up to 3 years
• administrative penalties – minimum £350 up to
£2,000 for ’low level fraud’ from May 2012
9. Personal independence payment
• replaces disability living allowance for working age claimants
• introduced in north west from spring 2013 and everywhere
in summer 2013
• two components - ‘daily living’ and ‘mobility’ – each paid at
two rates (losing lower rate care component), no night time.
• new 'objective assessment' based on descriptors with
assessment by doctor under contract to DWP
• 3 month backwards and nine months forward qualifying
period
• DWP estimates number of working age claimants cut by
500,000 and save £2.24bn in benefit expenditure by
2015/2016
‘Reassessment of existing DLA claimants should only
proceed once DWP is confident that the assessment
process produces accurate results and is working
properly for new claimants .’
Work and Pensions Committee
10. Household benefit cap
• to be introduced from April 2013
• applies to, e.g. income support; JSA; ESA; HB & CTB; child
benefit; child tax credit; carer’s allowance …
• capped by reference to the average earnings of working
households (£350 / £500)
• exemptions, e.g. for DLA recipients; and war widows
• DWP writes to 67,000 affected families in May 2012 to offer
‘support’ to get work, with suggestion of considering moving
house
• average weekly loss £83 per week, 17% with loss of more than
£150
If the welfare state is going to gain the trust of the
British people, it needs to reflect the British sense of
fair play … no family should get more from living on
benefits than the average family gets from going out
to work.'
George Osborne
11. Housing benefit changes
• April 2011 – removal of 5 bedroom rate; cap on weekly
LHA (£250 for one bedroom, £290 for 2 bedroom etc; LHA
rates set at 30th percentile of rents rather than median;
£15 excess benefit rules abolished)
• January 2012 - shared accommodation rate rules extended
to most single people aged under 35
• April 2013 - size criteria for working age HB claimants in
the social rented sector – reduction of 14% for one
bedroom and 25% for two (average £12 and £22 a week);
and linking LHA rate increases to the CPI
12. Abolition of the social fund – April
2013
• Community care grants and crisis loans to disappear
• Social Fund Commissioner and the Independent Review
Service to be abolished
• to be replaced, from April 2013, by ‘locally-administered
assistance’
• no new statutory duty on local authorities to deliver the
service
• funding transferred from the DWP to local authorities will
not be ring-fenced
NB – council tax benefit also goes, to be replaced by local provision
with 10% cut in funding and protection for pensioners
13. Universal credit
• replaces income support; income based JSA; ESA; working tax credit and
child tax credit; and HB
• means tested, with a single taper (proposed to be 65%)
• paid in and out of work
• to be administered by the DWP …
• … based on ‘Real Time Information’ provided by HMRC (pilot of 10
employers starts in April 2012)
• tougher sanctions and conditionality
• pathfinder in North West from April 2013, new claims in one district per
region from October 2012 with rest of new claims by ‘mid 2014’. for new
claimants and those whose circumstances change;
• existing claimants migrated between 2013 and 2017 –details to be
announced this summer.
‘Both universal credit and Real Time
Information are on track and on time’
Lord Freud, April 2012
14. Impact in London
• more than 130,000 households will be impacted by
either LHA or benefit cap
• two thirds of those affected by benefit cap face
shortfall of over 10 per cent; and one sixth face loss
of over 30 per cent
• average loss across London of £105/week
Does the Cap fit?
London Councils (Nov 2011)
15. Legal Aid Reform
(Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012)
Areas of social welfare law taken out of scope include –
• welfare benefits (except to upper courts and where appeal
contains ‘legal issue’)
• debt, where the client’s home is not at immediate risk
• specified housing matters
• employment
• certain immigration cases
‘Legal aid is not justified in [welfare benefit] cases because the issues
are not generally of sufficiently high importance to warrant funding,
and the user-accessible nature of the tribunal will mean that appellants
are able to represent themselves. In addition, they may also have
access to help and advice from other sources in order to help them
resolve their issues ….’
16. The future?
• Chancellor signalled further £10bn of cuts to welfare by
2016 (on top of £17bn by 2015 already announced) in
Budget 2012;
• 25 June 2012 – Prime Minister suggests major cuts to
‘working-age benefits’ including cut to housing benefit for
under 25s, reduction in uprating, reduction in benefit
after period of entitlement and possible restriction for
families with more than three children –
‘Quite simply, we have been encouraging working-age
people to have children and not work, when we should
be enabling working-age people to work and have
children.’
17. resources
www.rightsnet.org.uk
• universal credit discussion forum … /forums
• universal credit, personal independence payment
& welfare reform workshops … /training
• universal credit and personal independence payment areas ...
/toolkit
subscribe … rightsnet@lasa.org.uk