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Posts tagged "Welfare"
Simple Solutions for Complex Needs

Simple Solutions for Complex Needs

Magical thinking and multiple, complex needs in the UK In the UK at present, we appear to have an epidemic of magical thinking about the lives of the unhoused victims of universal credit (UC), the ‘20%’ with multiple and complex... More…
Same old story: between disability and disinterest

Same old story: between disability and disinterest

This week the UN Committee on the Rights of Disabled Persons (CRPD) published the results of an investigation that found that UK reforms to welfare have led to “grave and systematic violations” of disability rights. In the same week a... More…
Doctors, Welfare and the Deadly Workhouse

Doctors, Welfare and the Deadly Workhouse

The Beveridge Report was published 70 years ago this week.  This was the report which led to the formation of the modern Welfare State in Britain, so there’s been a lot of discussion about the ‘state of welfare today’, and... More…