Sharon Wright
@profsharonwright.bsky.social
Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
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Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
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My Women and Welfare Conditionality book shows how hard it already was for disabled women to manage work and welfare before the new cuts. Research shows that poverty worsens health.
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£5bn disability benefit cuts will push 250,000 into poverty. Women—especially Disabled women and unpaid carers—will be hardest hit. Why target the most vulnerable?
WBG Director @maryannstephenson.bsky.social sets out the case for fairer choices: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
WBG Director @maryannstephenson.bsky.social sets out the case for fairer choices: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
Women will suffer most from cuts to disability benefits
Cuts will push hundreds of thousands of women into poverty or force them out of workforce
www.opendemocracy.net
April 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
£5bn disability benefit cuts will push 250,000 into poverty. Women—especially Disabled women and unpaid carers—will be hardest hit. Why target the most vulnerable?
WBG Director @maryannstephenson.bsky.social sets out the case for fairer choices: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
WBG Director @maryannstephenson.bsky.social sets out the case for fairer choices: www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
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On top of household names, Who Wants Normal? will feature 20+ brilliant experts: from therapists, academics, patient advocates, to union reps. Like Suzanne, they generously share knowledge and tips to help disabled people access their rights. 99% have a disability themselves.
Thank you @francesryan.bsky.social for asking me to contribute to ‘Who Wants NORMAL? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life.’ Thank you & Penguin Fig Tree for all the lovely treats too! Readers - the book is published on 17th April. #NoSpoilers from me but it’s fabulous, witty, poignant & truthful
April 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
On top of household names, Who Wants Normal? will feature 20+ brilliant experts: from therapists, academics, patient advocates, to union reps. Like Suzanne, they generously share knowledge and tips to help disabled people access their rights. 99% have a disability themselves.
Just a reminder - this FULLY FUNDED PhD position is open for applications. 😀
Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability.
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just a reminder - this FULLY FUNDED PhD position is open for applications. 😀
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Today’s poverty statistics show that in 2023/24 31% of children were in poverty in the UK
Reducing this is now harder for govt's child poverty strategy with planned cuts to disability and health-related benefits to leave a further 50,000 children in poverty in 2029/30
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Reducing this is now harder for govt's child poverty strategy with planned cuts to disability and health-related benefits to leave a further 50,000 children in poverty in 2029/30
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Households Below Average Income: an analysis of the UK income distribution: FYE 1995 to FYE 2023
www.gov.uk
March 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Today’s poverty statistics show that in 2023/24 31% of children were in poverty in the UK
Reducing this is now harder for govt's child poverty strategy with planned cuts to disability and health-related benefits to leave a further 50,000 children in poverty in 2029/30
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Reducing this is now harder for govt's child poverty strategy with planned cuts to disability and health-related benefits to leave a further 50,000 children in poverty in 2029/30
www.gov.uk/government/s...
If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend this book:
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder
and this BMJ piece: www.bmj.com/content/388/...
by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social as sources of accurate evidence about the impacts of benefit cuts on ill-health and avoidable deaths.
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder
and this BMJ piece: www.bmj.com/content/388/...
by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social as sources of accurate evidence about the impacts of benefit cuts on ill-health and avoidable deaths.
UK welfare reforms threaten health of the most vulnerable
Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy
The chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will set out the UK government’s spending plans in her spring statement on 26 March.1 Th...
www.bmj.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
If you haven't seen it already, I highly recommend this book:
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder
and this BMJ piece: www.bmj.com/content/388/...
by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social as sources of accurate evidence about the impacts of benefit cuts on ill-health and avoidable deaths.
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder
and this BMJ piece: www.bmj.com/content/388/...
by @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social as sources of accurate evidence about the impacts of benefit cuts on ill-health and avoidable deaths.
Reposted by Sharon Wright
Are you care experienced and want to share a story or know someone who is? Caring Scotland is a new listening project the National Theatre of Scotland is working on. Find out more: buff.ly/44ftX4c
March 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Are you care experienced and want to share a story or know someone who is? Caring Scotland is a new listening project the National Theatre of Scotland is working on. Find out more: buff.ly/44ftX4c
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Child poverty stats for 2023/24:
- at 22% relative child poverty remains significantly higher than the Scottish Government's interim target of 18%
- Scottish figure is much lower than the UK (31%) demonstrating impact of devolved policies
www.gov.scot/news/poverty...
- at 22% relative child poverty remains significantly higher than the Scottish Government's interim target of 18%
- Scottish figure is much lower than the UK (31%) demonstrating impact of devolved policies
www.gov.scot/news/poverty...
Poverty levels broadly stable over last decade
Latest Accredited Official Statistics and Official Statistics published
www.gov.scot
March 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Child poverty stats for 2023/24:
- at 22% relative child poverty remains significantly higher than the Scottish Government's interim target of 18%
- Scottish figure is much lower than the UK (31%) demonstrating impact of devolved policies
www.gov.scot/news/poverty...
- at 22% relative child poverty remains significantly higher than the Scottish Government's interim target of 18%
- Scottish figure is much lower than the UK (31%) demonstrating impact of devolved policies
www.gov.scot/news/poverty...
Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability.
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Spread the word! Exciting new fully funded PhD opportunity to research disabled people's lived experiences of benefit reform and the costs of disability.
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
Deadline: 10 April
@uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @sgsss.bsky.social @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social
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Our Director responds to today’s spring statement.
For further information on what today’s announcements mean for women, please check the UK Women's Budget Group’s press release here: www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
For further information on what today’s announcements mean for women, please check the UK Women's Budget Group’s press release here: www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
March 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our Director responds to today’s spring statement.
For further information on what today’s announcements mean for women, please check the UK Women's Budget Group’s press release here: www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
For further information on what today’s announcements mean for women, please check the UK Women's Budget Group’s press release here: www.wbg.org.uk/article/our-...
My Women and Welfare Conditionality book shows how hard it already was for disabled women to manage work and welfare before the new cuts. Research shows that poverty worsens health.
March 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My Women and Welfare Conditionality book shows how hard it already was for disabled women to manage work and welfare before the new cuts. Research shows that poverty worsens health.
Reposted by Sharon Wright
New article: Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi-Level Maze? In Social Policy & Administration. I argue that greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. (OPEN ACCESS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?
Greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. This article explores how existing concepts such as welfare systems, subsidiarisatio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
New article: Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi-Level Maze? In Social Policy & Administration. I argue that greater conceptual and empirical engagement with welfare state complexity is needed in studies of digital welfare. (OPEN ACCESS) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Sharon Wright
This government's attempt to justify cutting benefits has completely fallen apart. They're slashing support for ill and disabled people to meet their arbitrary fiscal rules.
@pollardtom.bsky.social reacts to the cuts announced in the spring statement
@pollardtom.bsky.social reacts to the cuts announced in the spring statement
March 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This government's attempt to justify cutting benefits has completely fallen apart. They're slashing support for ill and disabled people to meet their arbitrary fiscal rules.
@pollardtom.bsky.social reacts to the cuts announced in the spring statement
@pollardtom.bsky.social reacts to the cuts announced in the spring statement
Reposted by Sharon Wright
Excellent summary.
There is even more in the DWP documents, including confirmation that an expected 150,000 people will lose carer's benefits.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
There is even more in the DWP documents, including confirmation that an expected 150,000 people will lose carer's benefits.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
March 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Excellent summary.
There is even more in the DWP documents, including confirmation that an expected 150,000 people will lose carer's benefits.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
There is even more in the DWP documents, including confirmation that an expected 150,000 people will lose carer's benefits.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...