Emeritus Professor of Social Inclusion, University of Portsmouth
Over the past 30 years I have designed, delivered, supervised and managed a wide range of national and comparative research projects concerning unemployment,welfare reform and employment services. Since 2010 I have undertaken a series of comparative evidence reviews, involving three of more countries, on the design and impacts of conditional benefit systems and related services and sanctions; devolution and decentralisation of employment and social welfare systems, implementing ‘one stop’ employment services; and the contracting out of publicly financed employment services.
Universal Credit: from benefits panacea to government blunder
Feb 17, 2017 00:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Only a fraction of the households in the UK originally intended to be receiving a new one-stop benefit payment in 2017 are currently doing so. As of January 12 2017, 960,000 claims have been made for Universal Credit and...
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