Are you a family member, partner or spouse of someone who served in the UK Armed Forces? Have you interacted with MoD welfare services for veterans? Please give your views in our new survey: salfordshs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Are you a family member, partner or spouse of someone who served in the UK Armed Forces? Have you interacted with MoD welfare services for veterans? Please give your views in our new survey: salfordshs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Have you seen our latest funding opportunity? Grants of up to £500,000 are available for researchers, academics, charities & others working on racial diversity, inequality & inclusion. Interested? Find out more 👉 https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/funding-for-research/racial-diversity-uk-fund

Read the full report here safetynets.study/publications

Publications – Safety Nets

Discover the research outputs from the project

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Such a great event- and picked up by the Guardian’s @Patrick Butler. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Striking differences in benefit entitlements across UK countries, study finds

Scottish family on low income receives £15,000 more a year than identical household in England

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The project launched a major report, The State of the Nations, on 21st May at an event hosted by The Resolution Foundation Watch the recording of the event here Take a look at this video, 'the resolution foundation youtube' share.google/RmeRZKKmHhP3...

It's all happening! I will be speaking at the @knowledgeen.bsky.social symposium at University of Salford with @dombroadhurst.bsky.social. We'll be sharing our experiences of working with KEN partners on two projects with our Salford academic colleagues to encourage them to do the same.

The Department for Work and Pensions has increased the number of disabled claimants who will face fewer reviews of their eligibility for personal independence payment. #DWP #PIP #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/key-cost-sav...

Key cost-saving change on PIP re-assessments, as DWP offers new ways to engage with Timms Review

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has increased the number of disabled claimants who will face fewer reviews of their eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP). The measures it i…

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Paper from our FiMT Sanctions, Support & Service Leavers project

Armed Forces & Society Journal@afssage.bsky.social · 6mo ago

From our #NewIssue! How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System - Philip Martin, @lisa-scullion.bsky.social @davidhjyoung.bsky.social Joe Pardoe, Celia Hynes, @katyjones.bsky.social #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@charlierad.bsky.social Just wanted to flag up our study. Hopefully of interest and relevance to you and some of those you have been supporting …

Professor Lisa Scullion@lisa-scullion.bsky.social · 7mo ago

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Survey on UK MoD welfare services for veterans - as part of our new study looking at how welfare services could be enhanced through trauma-informed approaches app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/un...

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Survey on UK MoD welfare services for veterans - as part of our new study looking at how welfare services could be enhanced through trauma-informed approaches app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/un...

Understanding experiences of MOD welfare services for veterans through a trauma informed lens

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Survey on UK MoD welfare services for veterans - as part of our new study looking at how welfare services could be enhanced through trauma-informed approaches app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/un...

Understanding experiences of MOD welfare services for veterans through a trauma informed lens

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

April 2026 will mark a true milestone for the UK benefits system: the end of the thirteen-year rollout of Universal Credit that has brought together all means-tested working-age benefits. But there are still further improvements to be made ⤵️ buff.ly/TjrE4OW

End of working week but this article from @madeleinepower.bsky.socialn is a must-read. A plethora of names to describe 'food aid' conceals the reality they're all experienced as food banks, with the key fault line not *type* of provision but *demographic* factors www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Major conference🚨 We're publishing a new book – combining analysis and policy work with in-depth conversations to understand the needs of lower income families – and hosting a major conference to discuss, with keynote speeches from Andy Burnham and Ken Murphy. Register now➡️ buff.ly/2tG8LsY

"We actually have an unemployment problem in the UK now" @gthwaites.bsky.social breaks down the latest data on the labour market ⤵️

I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit. Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social largerfamilies.study/publications...

Avanti West Coast. Keeping the nation working. Said no one ever

The two child limit and benefit cap are "economically inefficient" because [they] "undermine public health, early years development and educational outcomes.... This in turn increases pressure on local services, including schools, health and housing." www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...

Group of 40 economists & academics tell Chancellor ending two-child benefit cap will help grow economy | LBC

With less than a month to go before the Budget, the group have written to Rachel Reeves to warn that more than half of larger families could fall into poverty as a direct result of the cap.

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The impact of freezing Local Housing Allowance varies widely across the country. London has some of the largest gaps between LHA and market rents. But shortfalls of at least £100 a month appear in every region.

🌟New: The Government would like to get more people who are currently on disability #benefits back to work. But Catherine Hale‬ ‪(@catherinehale.bsky.social‬) argues that the labour market in its current state is not fit to accommodate disabled people wanting to return to #work. #GetBritainWorking

Unlocking the workplace for disabled people – the case for Flex Plus jobs as a pathway to work - British Politics and Policy at LSE

The Government would like to get more people who are currently on disability benefits back to work. But Catherine Hale argues that the labour market in its current state is not fit to accommodate disa...

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"Building relationships of trust? The experiences of military veterans claiming ‘interface first’ Universal Credit" by @davidhjyoung.bsky.social @lisa-scullion.bsky.social Philip Martin, Celine Hynes, Joe Pardoe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Building relationships of trust? The experiences of military veterans claiming ‘interface first’ Universal Credit

Trust is a central consideration when understanding the administration of social security benefits and interactions between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and claimants, which is increa...

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Amnesty warns DWP's use of AI and automation in welfare is harming disabled people and digitally excluded claimants.

DWP’s 'unhealthy' AI obsession is trapping people in poverty, Amnesty report finds

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Four-day week to be permanent at South Cambridgeshire Council

South Cambridgeshire Council votes to make four-day work week with full pay a permanent policy.

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The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill has made its debut in parliament. It promises to deliver a Community Right to Buy

A Community Right to Buy is a vital step to building a better Britain

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The DWP are advertising for a new intake of academic secondees. This is the role I'm currently doing - happy to talk to anyone about what it's like! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

@lisa-scullion.bsky.social and colleagues have been working directly with DWP to try and understand how a trauma informed approach might inform their work. Vital and fascinating work < @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social >

@haylesben.bsky.social identifies four key roles / ways of potentially understanding the roles local and devolved welfare play & notes they are not mutually exclusive - compensating, complementing, contesting, challenging (or inspiring)

@haylesben.bsky.social is arguing that there is value in trying to develop a new conceptual framework to understand what is happening in the uk around the changing role of local and devolved welfare

Great to have @haylesben.bsky.social kicking off our @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social symposium , a chance to reflect on work we’ve been doing together on our @nuffieldfoundation.org @safety-nets.bsky.social project 🧵inciming