Low Income Londoners Steering Group
Date and time
Location
London Councils
59½ Southwark Street London SE1 0AL United KingdomDescription
Hosted by Policy in Practice at London Councils
Thursday 20 September, 16:00 to 18:00
Networking and drinks afterwards
Event synopsis
Policy in Practice has concluded the third round of findings for our Low-Income Londoners and Welfare Reform project. Our work brings significant clarity to the complex dynamics shaping the circumstances around poverty, employment, housing and welfare support for households on low incomes in London.
We have collected 25 months of housing benefit and council tax support data on over 550,000 households from across 18 London boroughs. This has enabled us to provide a unique assessment of how the living standards of low-income Londoners have changed over the last two years.
Phase 3 of the project asked:
- What are the drivers and risk factors of financial resilience for households on low incomes?
- What choices will self employed people have under Universal Credit?
- How has the Benefit Cap affected employment outcomes?
- What's predicted to happen to low income households by 2020?
Join us to hear the findings.
We have secured funding to extend the project for another eighteen months, thanks to the support of Trust for London. The systematic use of administrative data is the future of social policy analysis and we’ve only scratched the surface of what we believe is possible.
Join us to shape the next phase.
Agenda
15:30 Refreshments available
16:00 to 16:10 Welcome and introductions
Deven Ghelani, Director and Founder, Policy in Practice
16:10 to 17:00 Low Income Londoners and Welfare Reform project: Third wave of findings
Giovanni Tonutti, Senior Policy Analyst, Policy in Practice
17:00 to 17:30 Further analysis: discussion about what questions we want to ask
Giovanni Tonutti, Senior Policy Analyst, Policy in Practice
from 17:30 Drinks and networking at The Sheaf, 24a Southwark Street
Who should attend?
London Borough officials charged with delivering the welfare reform agenda will be joined by Greater London Authority officials and other practitioners. Attendance is by invitation only.
Register now
Please register by Friday 14 September.
If you have any questions about Policy in Practice's Low Income Londoners project please contact Tom Burnell-Nugent on 0330 088 9242 or via hello@policyinpractice.co.uk
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It can help people towards greater independence if we make it simple for people and organisations to understand.
We simplify the welfare system by showing people how policy affects them.
We show local authorities how individual households are affected by all policy changes, now and in the future.
We talk to government on a national level to influence policy.