Scottish claimants of social security are protected from the Benefit Cap & will also receive £25 per child per week thanks to the Scottish Child Payment.

Me & Prof Sharon Wright on my home country's social security system in LSE British Politics and Policy blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

'Scotland still only has responsibility for approximately 20% of its overall ‘social security’ budget so decisions taken at Westminster continue to drive everyday lives in Scotland. Does this 20% offer...a ‘slice of hope’'? Prof Sharon Wright LSE Blogs blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

'The narrative and public conversation about poverty and the role of social security is distinctive, with politicians less ready to stigmatise households reliant on benefits.' Prof Ruth Patrick and Prof Sharon Wright on the Scottish social security system. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

Really wonderful to be part of this event and learn from others research. If you want to hear more about our project, including reflections on using arts-based participatory methods with young people, have a look at our webpage: youthgeographies.com Youth Geographies of Inequality UoY_SBS

Now hearing from Aniela Wenham Antonios Roumpakis Katherine Smith on early findings from their work on the geographies of exclusion, focused on York and Scarborough youthgeographies.com

Didn't get a picture as she was presenting on zoom but also brilliant to hear from Kat Chzhen at UoY_SBS stoday on this important. new paper on the 2 child limit with Jonathan Bradshaw

.Dr Kate Haddow now sharing her doctoral research about looking beyond the food bank at 'free food places' as part of our UoY_SBS poverty, inequality and the welfare state seminar series. Get in touch if you'd like to present at a future seminar.

Looking forward to presenting our paper (with Jonathan Bradshaw) on the UK #TwoChildLimit and #childpoverty tomorrow.

Open Access paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Come along tomorrow (hybrid) to UoY_SBS University of York to hear a fantastic line up of speakers on the 2-child limit, food banks and the geographies of inequality Dr Kate Haddow Kat Chzhen Aniela Wenham Katherine Smith & Antonios Roumpakis york.ac.uk/business-socie…

So excited to publish this research today with Institute for Fiscal Studies colleagues thanks to funding from Nuffield Foundation

Sure Start joined up services around the child in the early years and boosted educational outcomes particularly strongly among disadvantaged children

Benefit capped households won't see a penny more from today's benefit uprating. New briefing out today from Nuffield Foundation-funded Benefit Changes and Larger Families project shows the harms the cap causes and explains why families can't escape the cap. largerfamilies.study/publications/n…

7 years of the two-child limit.

What does the policy mean?

'... families are struggling. Always having to say “not today” to the youngest child. It affects my mental health a lot. I normally have the kids’ leftovers... the reality is there is nothing.'

End Child Poverty

STELLAR line up for our next poverty, inequality & the welfare state work in progress seminar at UoY_SBS University of York FT. Aniela Wenham Dr Kate Haddow Kat Chzhen Antonios Roumpakis & Katherine Smith: york.ac.uk/business-socie…

An amazing read. If you can make some time, please do. This eloquent presentation of the reality of solo parenting is impactful, and I recognise so much about this in my own experiences now as a lone parent to my teenage son. #SingleParent #SpeakingOut

For me, the £20 uplift to Universal Credit was a game changer. It could be a game changer again. We also need to end the 5 week wait for Universal Credit. Great ideas for change from Jo Changing Realities speaking alongside Child Poverty Action Group Sara Ogilvie BBC Woman's Hour today. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

'With the best will in the world, as a parent you can't constantly hide the reality from your child. 'No' is a regular word in our household. We're two of many.'

- Jo from Changing Realities speaking about her experiences on BBC Woman's Hour

BREAKING

Child poverty has risen *again*.

4.3 million children are living in poverty.

In a general election year, nothing should be more important to our political leaders than making things better for the country’s poorest kids.

Are you missing out on NHS Healthy Start?

Many families in Northern Ireland are and we want to change that!

#NHSHealthyStart
NHS Healthy Start Scheme

This is supported by a Social Policy Assoc Opportunity Grant and will be hosted with MU School of Law & Criminology Maynooth University

Do join us (not too late). I'm chairing an ace all-women line up features Kate Ardern Debbie Abrahams MP Michelle Changing Realities & Kate Pickett
Register here: york.ac.uk/news-and-event…