Universal Credit is the UK's globally innovative social security reform that replaces six
means tested benefits with one monthly payment for working age claimants-combining …

This article considers the extent to which Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) support the
sustained inclusion of veterans in the civilian labour market. Drawing on the first in-depth …

We report data from longitudinal qualitative interviews with thirteen people claiming
Universal Credit (UC) immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in England …

The intensification of behavioural requirements and punitive measures in unemployment
benefits by UK governments has been popular and instrumental to the politics of welfare …

Universal Credit (UC) entails an unprecedented expansion of welfare conditionality to those
in work. Working-age adults (16–66) in the United Kingdom who are working part-time and …

Social innovation has become a prominent theme in discussions of social policy reform
across the world. This book examines why social innovation is important to social policy …

Is austerity over? Such claims have been made, hyperbolically, by Conservative chancellors
since around 2014. It briefly appeared that the 2019 general election would see the UK …

The UK's recovery from the 2008 financial crisis was characterised by both low
unemployment and low productivity. Celebrating record employment levels, policymakers …

This article asks what kind of state intervention is needed for a post-Covid recovery. The
government bailout will seek to sustain a modified form of neoliberalism, but what is needed …

In-work poverty is now the most common experience of poverty for adults in the UK. One
potential mechanism for alleviating in-work poverty is for low-paid workers to progress into …