Helen Barnard
@helenbarnard.bsky.social
Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Reposted by Helen Barnard
DWP do make it clear in their statistical bulletin that the composition of UC claimants is changing through managed migration, but it would be helpful if they also published charts of people claiming UC or equivalent legacy benefits! bsky.app/profile/loui...
Of course, researchers try to make sense of this by collating lots of different DWP data releases...
But we shouldn't expect journalists to do this every month. Until DWP publish their data more clearly, we shouldn't be surprised if misleading and unforgiving headlines keep coming.
But we shouldn't expect journalists to do this every month. Until DWP publish their data more clearly, we shouldn't be surprised if misleading and unforgiving headlines keep coming.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
DWP do make it clear in their statistical bulletin that the composition of UC claimants is changing through managed migration, but it would be helpful if they also published charts of people claiming UC or equivalent legacy benefits! bsky.app/profile/loui...
'Because I've been on holiday & the moment has now passed' is also a perfectly reasonable but rarely accepted answer to people asking this kind of thing!
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
'Because I've been on holiday & the moment has now passed' is also a perfectly reasonable but rarely accepted answer to people asking this kind of thing!
Presumably the main answers include:
1. I have.
2. 10 other people in my publication have.
3. Everyone else in the media is covering it & I have nothing to add.
4. I have.
5. Because it's a wild conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
1. I have.
2. 10 other people in my publication have.
3. Everyone else in the media is covering it & I have nothing to add.
4. I have.
5. Because it's a wild conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Presumably the main answers include:
1. I have.
2. 10 other people in my publication have.
3. Everyone else in the media is covering it & I have nothing to add.
4. I have.
5. Because it's a wild conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
1. I have.
2. 10 other people in my publication have.
3. Everyone else in the media is covering it & I have nothing to add.
4. I have.
5. Because it's a wild conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
Mayfield Review rightly highlights employer incentives for more evidence & then action. But this is the bit that's absolutely crucial and has been ducked by governments for a long time. That must change for better living standards, inclusion &growth.
3/n www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/from...
3/n www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/from...
From Review to reality • Resolution Foundation
There’s always a danger that official reviews end up generating a lot of talk and symbolic gestures, but don’t set out meaningful steps for change. That’s the challenge faced by the just-published rev...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Mayfield Review rightly highlights employer incentives for more evidence & then action. But this is the bit that's absolutely crucial and has been ducked by governments for a long time. That must change for better living standards, inclusion &growth.
3/n www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/from...
3/n www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/from...
- Useful short term actions: create standard, trial interventions, build up evidence.
- But risk bolder next steps delayed or don't happen.
- Big gap=employer incentives. We won't crack this by just working with the willing. We'll need incentives and enforcement 2/n
- But risk bolder next steps delayed or don't happen.
- Big gap=employer incentives. We won't crack this by just working with the willing. We'll need incentives and enforcement 2/n
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
- Useful short term actions: create standard, trial interventions, build up evidence.
- But risk bolder next steps delayed or don't happen.
- Big gap=employer incentives. We won't crack this by just working with the willing. We'll need incentives and enforcement 2/n
- But risk bolder next steps delayed or don't happen.
- Big gap=employer incentives. We won't crack this by just working with the willing. We'll need incentives and enforcement 2/n
Exactly. Schools can do this if they want to. It’s just weird to want a national law enforcing one specific bit of the behaviour policy. Why not throw in a law about the odd obsession schools have with sock styles as well.
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Exactly. Schools can do this if they want to. It’s just weird to want a national law enforcing one specific bit of the behaviour policy. Why not throw in a law about the odd obsession schools have with sock styles as well.
I watched my son’s birthday cake try its very best to slide off my knee on the way to laserquest.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I watched my son’s birthday cake try its very best to slide off my knee on the way to laserquest.
Sure, but if we don't want bond market reactions to play a role then we should borrow less from them. The reason their response matters is because small variations in the cost of our debt are important, because we have quite a lot. We don't change that by shouting at the markets.
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Sure, but if we don't want bond market reactions to play a role then we should borrow less from them. The reason their response matters is because small variations in the cost of our debt are important, because we have quite a lot. We don't change that by shouting at the markets.