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2023 editions
In this issue we highlight:
- We make the MJ, Times Radio and the Wisdom Chat podcast
- We’re helping leading councils to put support into residents’ pockets
- We were at London Challenge Poverty Week, IRRV Telford, Solace Summit
- We’re working with utilities to build better customer journeys
- We won a Credit Strategy award with Fair for You
- In November we’re speaking at MALG and Liverpool Access to Advice Network Conference
- Join our next three free webinars
- Read our IRRV Insight column and our October blogs
In this issue we highlight:
- How we’re helping utility providers to support customers
- The impact of real term benefit cuts and overpayments on households
- The growing number of councils targeting support to distribute millions in unclaimed benefits
- A welcome to our new customers
In this issue we highlight:
- The success of our London wide Pension Credit campaign which has put over £8 million into pensioners’ pockets so far
- Our Pension Credit campaign being shortlisted for a Public Finance Award. Join our webinar to hear more
- The fantastic work of two housing providers to boost the financial strength of their customers
- A welcome to our new customers
- A look forward to a busy events season
In this issue we highlight:
- The steps councils can take to tackle financial inequality
- How housing providers are boosting the financial resilience of their customers
- The ways different sectors can support low-income households
- How utility companies are boosting take up of their social tariffs
- Our insights on the impacts of social policy on households most in need
- A welcome to our new customers
In this issue:
- Adequacy of benefits: our evidence to Parliamentary committees
- Product news: CTR toolkit, Better Off Calculator scores 4.85 / 5
- Welcome to our new clients
- Out and about: June events and media appearances
- Webinars: Listen back to June’s webinars and sign up for July’s
- Data led campaign: How to give 8,500 Londoners up to £3,700 of unclaimed Pension Credit
- Blog posts in June
- Jobs at Policy in Practice
In this issue:
- 10 years of Universal Credit: Thank you for a fantastic evening
- Martin Lewis joins our efforts to boost take-up of £19 billion of unclaimed support
- We won a British Data Award
- New publication: A common approach to Welsh benefits
- Consumer Credit Awards: Vote for us and read the reviews so far
- DWP position on Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for LIFT clients
- Would you like to join our next Universal Credit roundtable?
- May events roundup
- On demand webinars:
- Understanding the impact of Council Tax interventions in Wales
- What English councils could learn from Council Tax interventions in Wales
- Are you happy to be contacted by journalists?
- May’s blog posts
- Jobs at Policy in Practice
In this issue:
- New report: Missing out: £19 billion of benefits goes unclaimed each year
- 10 years of Universal Credit: Join us at the House of Lords with Government and Shadow Ministers
- Treasury Select Committee: We give evidence on Cliff Edges in the Tax and Benefit system
- Work and Pensions Select Committee: We give evidence on the administration of the Household Support Fund
- Webinar: What English councils could learn from Council Tax interventions in Wales
- New customers: Welcome to our new customers this month
- Awards: Vote for us at the Consumer Credit Awards
- Updates: New capabilities of the Better Off Calculator
- Webinar recap: The importance of Local Welfare Assistance and Household Support Funds
- Talks we gave in April: Socio-Legal Association Studies Conference and ERSA Forum
- April’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
- Happy birthday to us!
In this issue:
- Budget 2023: Fewer barriers to work but harsher conditionality
- New report covered in the Times: Putting the ‘Universal’ into Universal Credit
- Media debates on LBC and GB News: Truancy, childcare and WCA changes
- New research for the Welsh Government: The effectiveness of Council Tax interventions
- Free webinars:
- Register: The importance of Local Welfare Assistance and Household Support Funds
- View: How councils are using data to build the best localities model
- Talks we gave in March: Housemark and LARIA
- Awards: We’re finalists for 5 National Technology Awards and 3 British Data Awards
- March’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
- New research shows Local Welfare Assistance (LWA) is an effective low cost intervention
- API integrations with Beam and Anglian Water make income maximisation part of their core offer
- Deven Ghelani talks to collections officers on how to support people through the cost of living crisis
- Multi Agency Safeguarding Tracker (MAST) shortlisted for two more awards
- Webinars:
- View – Designing Council Tax Support schemes during a cost of living crisis
- Register – How councils are using data to build the best localities model
- Evidence to Universal Credit APPG highlights inadequate income for households on benefits
- February’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
- MAST: Our award winning safeguarding tool goes live to great user feedback
- £52 million in Pension Credit distributed via LIFT
- Deven Ghelani to speak at Bright Blue parliamentary event on welfare reform
- We give evidence to the food poverty APPG on the importance of local welfare funding
- I&E tool enables the Better off Calculator to be used by debt advisors
- Webinars:
- View – How to prevent the long-term impacts of short-term debt
- Register – Designing Council Tax Support schemes during a cost of living crisis
- Tell us about your CTR Scheme changes
- Partner with Policy in Practice for GOV.UK Innovation funding competition
- EPC data added to LIFT to help target support for energy grants
- Media appearances
- January’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
2022 editions
- Season’s greetings from everyone at Policy in Practice
- 12 Days of Christmas: good news stories from 2022
- A message from Deven Ghelani, Director and Founder of Policy in Practice
- Festive season opening hours
- What the Autumn Statement means for low-income families
- Policy in Practice wins double at the Public Finance Awards 2022
- GLA partners with Policy in Practice to deliver Pension Credit campaign
- Policy in Practice discusses the importance of data with central government
- DWP trusts local authorities to use benefit data for good
- Free Webinar: How 2022 has set up low income families for 2023
- Events and speaking engagements round up
- Join us at our Christmas networking drinks
- 12 Days of Christmas is almost here
- November’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
- Households set to be £395 worse off per year unless benefits are uprated by inflation
- Policy in Practice analysis backs calls for Free School Meals for all families on Universal Credit
- Stop households falling into fuel poverty with new Cost of Living and EPC data screens in LIFT
- Tools to fight poverty during London Challenge Poverty Week
- Free webinar: Building a path out of in-work poverty
- Awards and Events roundup
- Join us at our Christmas networking drinks
- Join our heartwarming 12 Days of Christmas campaign
- October’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
- Mini Budget: Tax cuts work for low income families too
- Tightening rules on Universal Credit’s working hours won’t fix labour shortages
- Our view from the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences
- Mayor of London launches benefits entitlement checker, powered by Policy in Practice
- Energy Price Guarantee: Just About Managing households will still be worse off
- Free webinar: Forecasting the fight against fuel poverty
- How to identify and support just about managing families using data
- Policy in Practice is an approved G-Cloud 13 supplier
- Policy in Practice shortlisted for a UK Housing Awards 2022
- Upcoming events: see you there
- September’s blog posts
- Jobs at Policy in Practice
- CSJ calls for a 13.3% increase to UC based on new analysis by Policy in Practice
- Identifying and supporting Just About Managing households using data
- Join our free webinar: How to identify and support Just About Managing households using data
- LIFT community workshop talks about JAMs
- Stephen Timms discusses local councils’ work on improving financial resilience
- £1.7 billion of unclaimed Pension Credit: see how much your local authority could gain
- Webinar recap: How to maximise unclaimed Pension Credit take up
- Webinar recap: Migrating to Universal Credit during the cost of living crisis
- In the news: talking about policy responses to the cost of living crisis
- Upcoming events: see you there
- Shortlists announced for PFA Awards 2022
- August’s blog posts
- People news and we’re hiring a Policy and Research Director and Marketing Manager
- £1.7bn of unclaimed Pension Credit: see how much your local authority could gain
- Policy in Practice highlights local authorities’ success with take up to Pensions Minister
- Our analysis shows the positive impact of extending Free School Meals
- Our evidence on in-work poverty published in APPG Poverty report
- Better Off Calculator is the new name for the Better Off Calculator
- Policy in Practice’s LIFT platform recognised at LGC Awards
- Congratulations to our clients who are shortlisted for IRRV Awards
- Upcoming events and recent speaking engagements
- Webinar recap: How the housing crisis has deepened the cost of living crisis
- July’s blog posts and people news
- Data-led campaigns drive uptake of £1.7 billion in unclaimed Pension Credit
- New analysis on Council Tax arrears presented at Crown Commercial Service
- Tools to help people impacted by debt amid cost of living crisis
- Deven Ghelani chairs Trussell Trust event at LGA Conference
- LIFT helps local authorities get financial support to most in need
- Housing in 2022: How local authorities can deliver vital funds to residents
- LIFT Community Workshop
- Next webinar: How to identify and support Just About Managing households using data
- June’s blog posts
- People news and jobs
- Chancellor announces a new support package to tackle rising living costs
- Managed migration to Universal Credit restarts
- The MJ covers our work tracking poverty in real time
- The New Statesman rebuffs Chancellor’s ‘computer says no’
- LBC phone in: helping people impacted by the rising cost of living
- More help for people with disabilities on GB news
- Access to benefits for Ukrainian refugees
- LIFT updates: Explore UC data and model the cost of living
- IRRV Spring conference
- June webinar: How to identify and support Just About Managing households using data
- Awards round-up
- People news and jobs
- Benefit rates uprating
- Calculate next month’s Universal Credit exactly
- Sharing more Universal Credit data with local authorities
- Spring Statement: The case for investing in Universal Credit
- Lord Freud’s book launch
- See you there: UKRN, CCW and IRRV Spring Conference
- Join our next webinar: The latest innovations in designing Council Tax support schemes
- On-demand webinar: How low-income families can benefit from social tariffs
- Case study: Croydon Council helps over 200 homes improve their energy efficiency
- People news and blog posts
- Universal Credit is a better way to deliver support for energy bills
- Council tax support: new analysis for Welsh Government and arrears evidence published
- Housing Digital social: how housing providers can boost the income of tenants
- MALG: bringing income maximisation to the heart of debt advice
- See you there: IGPP’s Local Government Event 2022
- Join our next webinar: How low-income families can benefit from social tariffs
- On-demand webinar: Using data analysis to get ahead of the cost of living crisis
- Case study spotlight: Northern Ireland Housing Executive
- People news and blog posts
- Debt Resolution Services for the public sector
- Cost of living crisis: understand the challenges ahead
- What linking children’s social care and benefits data tells us
- Universal Credit data roundtable: Sharing more UC data with local authorities
- Tell us: are you changing your CTR scheme changing in April?
- On-demand webinar: Budgeting support: Best practice ways to help low-income households
- Case study spotlight: Citizens Advice Caerphilly Blaenau Gwent
- People news and January’s blog posts
2021 editions
- Season’s greetings from everyone at Policy in Practice
- 12 Days of Christmas: good news stories from our clients in 2021
- Festive season opening hours
- Kent county and districts identify over £6 million to boost resident’s financial strength
- Welsh government extends free school meals using our data-led analysis
- Policy in Practice seeks partners for Connected Futures Fund
- Policy in Practice were finalists at this year’s Credit Connect Award
- Universal Credit taper rate updated in our Better Off Calculator
- Join us and on 7th December for Christmas networking drinks and mince pies
- Be part of our 12 Days of Christmas cheer
- Free webinar: What next for post furlough employment support?
- On-demand webinar: How data can help you target your Household Support Fund
- People news and latest blog posts
- Autumn Budget 2021: Increased support, but not for everyone
- How councils can make best use of their Household Support Fund
- New Zealand are using linked administrative data
- On-demand webinar: How Kent County and district councils collaborate with data to tackle poverty
- Evidence to the APPG on in-work poverty
- Money and Pensions Service links to our Better Off Calculator
- Congratulations to our clients for their wins at the IRRV Conference and Awards 2021
- Deven Ghelani joined a panel on Universal Credit at the Conservative Party Conference
- Events and awards: MALG and Credit Connect Awards
- Join us and on 7th December for Christmas networking Drinks and Mince Pies
- Next month’s webinar and people news
- In the news: Deven speaks to BBC R4 about removing the £20 uplift to Universal Credit
- Software update: See the impact of losing the Universal Credit £20 uplift
- Analysis: the impact of the Health and Social Care Levy and end to Covid-19 support
- The impact of Covid support measures on London’s most vulnerable residents
- Congratulations: our clients were finalists at this year’s Public Finance Awards
- Back to in-person events: Housing 2021; look ahead to IRRV Annual Conference
- On-demand webinar: How Autumn’s income shocks will hit low income families
- Next month’s webinar, people news and latest blog posts
- New analysis: Real-time findings on the impact of Covid
- Join us: Summer networking drinks at our offices in Westminster
- Contribute: Create a nationally representative dataset for researchers
- Media coverage: The Observer and Municipal Journal
- Policy in Practice featured in MHCLG’s best-practice guide on council tax collection
- New ROI calculator: demonstrate the impact of your work
- Steering groups: Thank you for contributing to LIFT and Calculator product development
- See you there: Housing 2021 and IRRV 2021
- ISO 27001: Awarded formal accreditation for information security
- On-demand webinar: Designing a post-pandemic council tax reduction scheme
- ICYMI: next month’s webinar, people news and latest blog posts
- Congratulations to clients shortlisted for IRRV Awards and LGC Awards
- New analysis: rising council tax support costs lower council’s spending power by 1%
- Our Better Off Calculator gets a new design
- Walsall Council’s Director of Public Health talks about innovations in safeguarding
- Reasons for optimism at our latest Universal Credit roundtable
- The UK debt landscape and its impact on councils
- The £20 uplift has brought many households above the poverty line
- Join us in our London offices for summer networking drinks
- People news and latest vacancies
- ICYMI: this month’s blogs
- Future free webinars
- Congratulations to our clients for being shortlisted in Public Finance Awards 2021
- Better targeted council tax support to low-income households in London
- Fabiana Macor presents Policy in Practice’s findings to the Bevan Foundation
- We are re-launching our Better Off Calculator with improved design features
- We were featured in this month’s Big Issue
- Listen back to our webinar on how housing providers can increase the income of their tenants
- Register for our steering groups in July
- Deven was shortlisted in the Digital Impact awards
- People news and latest vacancies
- ICYMI: this month’s blogs
- Future free webinars
- We are finalists in the Digital Leaders Impact Awards 2021
- Walsall Council wins the Data for Good Initiative of the Year award
- DWP is listening to council’s calls for more Universal Credit data
- Our Better Off Calculator gets a new design
- Early feedback on Breathing Space implementation
- New analysis shows the cost of expanding Free School Meals in Wales
- Policy in Practice joins the Institute of Employability Professionals
- People news: hello to Tobias and Sophia, and latest vacancies
- Future free webinars
- ICYMI: May’s blogs
- Frontline organisations prepare for the end of the eviction ban
- £3 billion Restart Scheme for employment awards first contracts
- Breathing Space comes into effect on 4 May
- Local authorities and SSAC calls to unlock the potential of Universal Credit data
- Walsall Council shortlisted for British Data Awards for linking multi-agency data across adults, children’s, fire, police and NHS
- Welcome to our new client, Financial Wellness Group
- People news: goodbye to Oscar, hello to Mary-Alice and Leanne
- Future free webinars
- ICYMI: April’s blogs
- Safeguarding data matched across Adults, Children’s, NHS, Police and Fire for the West Midlands to better support vulnerable people
- Progress made on work to share more Universal Credit data with local authorities
- Improved user interface and budgeting features coming soon to our benefits calculator thanks to support from NESTA
- Uprated benefits and tax figures for the 2021/22 tax year
- Policy in Practice joins new Commission on Social Security
- People news: Welcome to David Carboni and Joe Hollingworth
- Future webinars on employment support and homelessness
- ICYMI: March’s blogs
- What we want from Budget 2021
- Reforming local government finance in Wales
- Using administrative data to create better public services
- How organisations can prepare for Breathing Space
- Next webinar: Boost safeguarding through multi-agency data sharing
- People news, and we’re recruiting
- ICYMI: Catch up on our latest blog posts
- Poverty APPG uses our evidence on keeping the £20 uplift to Universal Credit
- A flexible approach to council tax collection in London
- Welfare policy in Scotland
- Our customer steering groups went online
- Be part of our plans for My Benefits Calculator app
- We donate to customer’s favourite charities
- Free webinar: How to use data to increase people’s income
- ICYMI: Catch up on our latest blog posts
Earlier editions
- 12 Days of Christmas: good news stories from our clients in 2020
- Policy in Practice named as a Nesta Rapid Recovery Challenge semi-finalist
- Happy Christmas, and our festive season opening hours
- Spending Review 2020: From health crisis to economic emergency
- 12 Days of Christmas coming soon
- Our policy work on Test and Trace, Covid-19 in Scotland, Universal Credit and Free School Meals
- November conferences on debt, welfare reform and the benefit cap
- Hello to new clients
- People news and thank you to the team
- Wrap up the year with our free policy review of 2020 webinar
- We’ve moved, welcome to Public Hall
- Why it pays for the government to fund Free School Meals
- Groundbreaking 18-month study into Universal Credit in Wales
- Our October conference talks on data for good, Covid-19 recovery, Universal Credit and debt
- Hello to this month’s lovely new clients
- People news
- Free webinars
- New LIFT video
- Fairer and more effective debt collection
- How viable is your council tax support scheme?
- The outlook for employment and frontline services
- We’re speaking at 5 conferences in October. Join us
- Hello to new clients
- People news
- Free webinars
- A word from our founder
- Councils get real-time updates from Innovate UK to boost COVID-19 recovery
- Better Off Calculator sees record-breaking usage as COVID-19 affects incomes
- Newcastle CC and LB Barking and Dagenham’s debt prevention work delivers big returns on investment
- Report for the Welsh Government on the impact of Universal Credit on people living in Wales published
- The impact of COVID-19 on low income households
- Universal Credit responded well to COVID-19 but problems remain
- Free webinars
- Model the impact of Brexit on low-income households
- Deven debates against scrapping Universal Credit in Prospect magazine
- We win the Community Award at the Anglian Water Supplier Awards
- Designing effective data-led local authorities webinar
- Round-up of recent speaking engagements at LSE, NHF, IRRV and Westminster Briefing
- Meet our new team members
- Review our 2019 webinars and recent blog posts
- Modelling the impact of Brexit on low-income households
- Evidence on Brexit and Universal Credit presented to APPG
- Shortlisted for Best Customer Experience award
- Talking about data-led vulnerability prevention with Chief Execs
- Congratulations from IRRV Annual Conference 2019
- Using data to predict homelessness in Leeds
- Tackling debt, financial resilience and vulnerability at LACEF Conference
- Scotland pledges support for social security
- We support the Festival of Learning and the Disability Benefit Consortium
- New research on the transition to Universal Credit
- Contribute to our LGA backed research on the Local Housing Allowance
- Good luck to all the finalists of the IRRV Awards 2019
- Deven speaks at the Conservative Party Conference fringe meeting
- Louise tackles debt on BBC Radio 4’s The Fix
- Deven speaks at the Civil Enforcement Conference and Neath Port Talbot’s Poverty Symposium
- We’ll be at Solace – ask your Chief Executive to say hello
- Register for our October, November, December and January webinars
- Join the team and see what it’s like to work here (including outtakes)
- How the LIFT Dashboard supported targeted take up for mixed-age pensioners
- Takeaways and slides from our recent steering groups
- Deven discussed the findings of the Social Metrics Commissioners Poverty Report on TalkRADIO
- Congratulations to the finalists of the IRRV and Women in Housing Awards
- Take part in our research: The impact of Universal Credit in Wales
- Policy in Practice meets chairs of All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty
- Make a change for good. Work with us
- Housing the next focus for the Living Standards Index for London
- Zoe speaks at NAWRA welfare rights conference in Greenwich
- Policy in Practice at CIH Housing 2019
- National Housing Federation members talk Universal Credit in Bath
- MJ Awards 2019: Congratulations to Croydon Council
- Join our July steering groups (with networking)
- Join our Curo Housing webinar, upcoming webinars, events and speaking engagements
- Free download: revised Universal Credit roadmap
- Come and work with us
- Living Standards Index: housing affordability
- How Citizens Advice is helping Universal Credit claimants
- MJ Awards 2019: good luck to all our clients
- Social Metrics Commission poverty measure adopted by DWP
- Policy in Practice breakfasts with DWP Permanent Secretary
- In the news: Deven Ghelani on LBC radio, Louise Murphy on RT TV
- Free download: updated Universal Credit Roadmap
- Steering groups, webinars, events and speaking engagements
- New Living Standards Index reveals London’s pockets of poverty
- Children’s Commissioner’s Office asks Policy in Practice to research welfare reform impacts
- Bumper month for modelling CTR schemes
- Wales: Discovering data workshop held
- Scotland: IRRV Universal Credit Conference 2019
- Italy: Policy in Practice presented at Rome Startup Week #rsw19
- London Challenge Poverty Week, 14 – 20 October 2019
- Luton and Barking and Dagenham use data insights to build residents’ resilience
- April’s benefit changes and changes still to come – act now
- Proactively tackling child poverty using data insights
- Council tax support models that Members can sign up to
- The London Homelessness Conference 2019
- Policy in Practice hosts a TIGger to discuss Universal Credit
- Natural migration: Policy in Practice’s evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee
- Percy the protection calculator launched at ABI
- A data led investigation into the impact of Universal Credit in Wales
- In the news
- Latest webinars, job vacancies and blog posts
- Policy in Practice meets with the Secretary of State and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Lord Fraser advocates the role of technology in homelessness prevention
- Croydon’s data-enabled Gateway service nominated for LGC 2019 transformation award
- A new Social Metric to measure poverty is debated in the House of Lords
- Policy in Practice wins a pan-Wales data analytics tender to assess the impact of Universal Credit
- Debt Symposium: Lord Bird says we should use public sector data to tackle poverty
- Successful steering groups topped off by an evening with James Cleverly