With LIFT we can see our caseload changing and the different types of households that are being impacted by the economic downturns. This lets us understand how we can reflect our support to match the impact that’s occurring as people move off housing benefit and predominantly onto Universal Credit as they become made redundant. We can be specific with our targeting of resources of help, which we wouldn’t be able to do without the LIFT Dashboard.

Clive Jones, Luton Borough Council

The Benefit and Budgeting Calculator makes it much quicker to do calculations and the tooltips make it easy to use, meaning we only need to train people once. The simplicity of the calculator means that clients can often self serve with little support.

Sue McCarron, Citizens Advice Wirral

You can explain benefit entitlements but people may not fully grasp the numbers. Having the Benefit and Budgeting Calculator as a mechanism to visually explain the breakdown of entitlements using colour coded charts really helps as it’s something people can relate to.

Grant Bailey, Benefit and Money Advice Team Leader, Cheltenham Borough Homes

The Motor Neurone Disease Association is the only national charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland focused on improving access to care, research and campaigning for people living with MND. We want to understand how the introduction of Universal Credit will affect people living with MND, their carers and their families, in order to inform the advocacy, advice and support we provide around this issue. Policy in Practice’s expertise and insight will help us to ensure we can continue to provide the best possible support to all those affected by MND who are impacted by the transition to Universal Credit.

Alex Massey, MNDA

Too many communities still suffer from a toxic mix of low pay, insecure work and unemployment. I’m delighted we’re partnering with Policy in Practice to help organisations deliver ever better services that support those who need it most.

Kirsty McHugh, ERSA

I have really enjoyed working with Policy in Practice and the Welfare Reform Club. Policy in Practice have used their strong analytical capability, supplemented by the experience and insight of the Welfare Reform Club, to help Leeds City Council to make better strategic and operational decisions.

Steve Carey, Leeds City Council

The Children’s Society commissioned Policy in Practice to examine the barriers and solutions to the sharing of data on new born children in local authority areas. Their report delivered practical guidance, based on real-world practice on the ground. Policy in Practice were a pleasure to work with, they were effective, diligent and timely and we would definitely work with them in the future.

Lucy Capron, The Children's Society

The level of contact and engagement throughout was very impressive, as was the technical ability of the Policy in Practice team.

Steve Carey, Leeds City Council

Any software is only as good as its implementation and the support we’ve had from the team to bed in the new service has been a massive benefit to us.

Jemma Johnstone, Serco

We take partnership working very seriously and we only work with organisations who we genuinely feel can make a difference. Policy in Practice very much falls into this category.

James Pickering, Oxford City Council