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The efficiency imperative: driving impact via data driven outreach With increasing demand and shrinking resources, councils face growing pressure to deliver impactful support to vulnerable residents efficiently.

In this webinar, we explore how data driven outreach campaigns can help local authorities overcome these challenges and achieve impactful results.

Join us to hear from two leading local government organisations as they share their experiences using Campaign Manager, a powerful new feature of the LIFT platform.

Discover how they’ve leveraged their data using intelligent analytics to identify financially vulnerable residents, streamline their outreach processes, and maximise both resident outcomes and cost savings.

This session will cover:

- Strategies to manage rising demand with limited resources
- How data insights can drive targeted and efficient resident support
- Real world results from councils using Campaign Manager for impactful outreach campaigns

Join us to learn how your council can also turn insights into action and make smarter, data-driven decisions to support your communities.

With guest speakers:

- Seth Pearson, Darlington Partnership Director, Darlington Borough Council
- Sarah Small, Darlington Partnership Programme Officer, Darlington Borough Council
- Fahmida Rahman, Senior Policy Officer, Greater London Authority

26/3/2025

10:30am GMT

1.3 hours

Protecting vulnerable consumers in regulated sectors

30/4/2025

10:30am BST

1.3 hours

Harnessing data for regional impact: empowering local leaders to drive change Devolution is one of the core missions of the new government, promising a strong focus on giving local areas more control over services. To tackle economic inactivity, and with many people across the UK needing support, it’s vital that local authorities deliver effective, targeted interventions. The success of tailored, region-specific approaches depends on how well local areas can harness data to drive change.

Local organisations, from Mayoral Combined Authorities to county councils, need to deliver these crucial services. Accessing and using the data insights required to implement efficient and effective programmes is a challenge and, without localised data, decision making can become less accurate. This leads to inefficient resource allocation and missed opportunities to reach those who need help the most.

Data analysis offers the key to overcoming these challenges. By harnessing the power of local data, authorities can get the accurate insights they need to target support where it will be most effective. With the right insights, local areas can design and deliver services that are more tailored, timely and impactful, ensuring the right residents get the right support at the right time.

Proven results from current data led initiatives already show the transformative potential of this approach.

Join this webinar to hear from guest speakers who have successfully implemented data driven campaigns. They will showcase real world examples of how they have come together to achieve measurable outcomes.

We’ll also explore how these data insights can be applied to address key issues like economic inactivity, youth unemployment and social isolation to deliver lasting change across regions.

21/5/2025

10:30am BST

1.3 hours

Blog

Election 2015: What’s at stake for welfare?

Janet Harkin Published on 22nd April 2015

Last week all of the political parties unveiled their manifestos ahead of the upcoming General Election.

The headline pledges from the three main parties are:

Labour will scrap the ‘Non-dom’ tax status
the Conservatives will extend Right to Buy to housing association properties and
the Liberal Democrats will put £2.5bn more funding into education

But what do the three main parties have to offer in terms of welfare policy?

> Download our guide Election 2015: What’s At Stake for Welfare? A side-by-side comparison of the welfare policies of the three main political parties

Election 2015: Welfare Policies Compared

The table below compares the Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Labour party’s policies on welfare and related policy issues such as childcare, housing, minimum wage, and taxes.

	Conservatives	Lib Dems	Labour
Universal Credit	Complete the roll-out of Universal Credit.	• Complete the roll-out of Universal Credit. • Review UC to address any issues regarding ‘cliff edges’, and ensure increased working hours are properly incentivised.	Pause and review the programme.
Spare Room Subsidy / Bedroom tax	No change.	• Existing social tenants will not be subject to any housing benefit reduction until they have been offered reasonable alternative accommodation. • Ensure that those who need a bedroom for genuine medical reasons are entitled to one, and those whose homes are substantially adapted do not have their Housing Benefit reduced.	Abolish it.
Benefit cap	Reduce the benefit cap to £23,000.	Retain the benefit cap, which should continue to be set at around the average family income.	Ask the Social Security Advisory Committee to examine if it should be lower in some areas.
Benefit uprating	Freeze working age benefits for two years from April 2016, with some exemptions (e.g. disability benefits, statutory maternity pay etc.).	Introduce a 1% cap on the uprating of working-age benefits until 2017/18.	• Introduce a higher rate of Jobseekers’ Allowance for those who have contributed over years. • Cap Child Benefit rises for two years.
Disability	• Review whether benefits should be reduced for people suffering from long-term yet treatable conditions (e.g. addiction, obesity) who refuse a recommended treatment. • Aim to halve the disability employment gap. • Provide significant new support for mental health.	• Develop a package of specialist support for carers seeking work. • Conduct a review of the Work Capability Assessment and Personal Independence Payment assessments. • Simplify and streamline back-to-work support for people with disabilities, mental or physical health problems.	• Reform the Work Capability Assessment and focus it on the support disabled people need to get into work. It will be monitored by an independent scrutiny group of disabled people. • Introduce a specialist support programme to ensure that disabled people who can work get more tailored help.
Young people	Replace Jobseeker’s Allowance for 18-21 year olds with a Youth Allowance. After six months, young people will have to take an apprenticeship, a traineeship or do daily community work to receive benefits. They will not have an automatic entitlement to Housing Benefit.	• Protect young people’s entitlements to the welfare safety net. • Double the number of businesses that hire apprentices.	A guaranteed, paid job for all young people who have been out of work for one year, and for all those over 25 years old and out of work for two years. It will be a job that they have to take, or lose their benefits.
Pensioners	Continue to increase the State Pension through our triple lock, so it rises by at least 2.5%, inflation or earnings, whichever is highest.	• Legislate to make the ‘triple lock’ permanent, guaranteeing decent pensions rises each year. • Withdraw eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment and free TV Licence from pensioners who pay tax at the higher rate (40%).	• Keep the triple-lock so that the state pension increases by inflation, earnings, or 2.5%, whichever is highest. • Restrict Winter Fuel Payments for the richest 5% of pensioners.

This is not an exhaustive list, so if you want to read them yourselves, here are the full manifestos for the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour for the General Election 2015.