Haroon Chowdry, Head of Analysis at the Office of the Children’s Commissioner spoke in our April webinar about the crucial missing information about family context within children's, and the important role that benefits data can play in the early identification of vulnerability.
Policy in Practice shared new analysis for the CCO on the impact that welfare reforms will have on levels of child vulnerability. We looked in depth at Universal
Credit, the 5 week wait, Universal Credit advance payment, the 2 child limit and the combined impact of reforms and found that, overall, more households were struggling or at risk, whilst fewer were coping.
Haroon said "This is really rich analysis. People can have a tendency to think of that as abstract, a nice-to-have, but it’s really powerful. This is useful for intervening with particular families and households so we can, in theory and in practice, identify those households that are being put at risk of being at risk because of the two child limit or because of the move to Universal Credit."
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