Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021 at Policy in Practice

This International Women’s Day we celebrate the strong female representation in all areas of Policy in Practice

Watch our interviews with Zoe Charlesworth, Janet Harkin, Jade Alsop, Louise Murphy, Sarah Lambert, Megan Mclean and Fabiana Macor to hear about their careers so far, and how they would encourage other women into this field

Read IWD2021: How the benefit system can do more to support women by Verity Ambler

To celebrate International Women’s Day read analysis by our female policy and data experts

• Spending Review 2020: From health crisis to economic emergency
• New figures reveal jobseeker’s claimant count more than doubles due to COVID-19
• Universal Credit: legacy benefits run-on starts today
• How do the surplus earnings rules work in practice?
• Analysis of how the new measures will help households hit by Coronavirus (COVID-19)

• LIFT Dashboard User Group: 5 new ways to support vulnerable households
• DWP publish latest Universal Credit Full Service Omnibus Survey
• Two-child limit: Policy in Practice’s evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee
• Lord Bird’s Creditworthiness Assessment Bill can help prevent vulnerability

• What the close of the SDP Gateway means for disabled people moving to Universal Credit
• Evidence: the role of Scottish Social Security in Covid-19 recovery
• Three ways DWP can improve young people’s access to work
• Natural migration: Policy in Practice’s evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee
• UN Special Rapporteur: Local authorities are the social safety net

• Policy in Practice’s recommended changes to Universal Credit published in Work and Pension Committee report
• Housing First is welcome but local authorities can do more
• The true cost of homelessness prevention services in London