Claire Hall

.@AIRECentre granted permission to intervene by Court of Appeal in Fertre v Vale of White Horse DC. To address question of whether UK domestic rule on eligibility for housing assistance & R2R test amounts to direct or indirect discrimination under EU law & Article 23(1) of the WA

3/ The benefit cap The benefit cap limits the amount of money that most working-age people can receive from benefits More than 38k households in London had their income reduced by the benefit cap in 2024 This is 50% higher than pre-pandemic and an increase of 10k since 2023.

@larasampson Could the low figures also reflect that many unrepresented claimants face barriers to raising formal complaints? And that advisers will not often advise a complaint because official advice from DWP is to contact local partnership managers to escalate problems?

Incredible achievement. The Move to UC complaint statistics are a testament to the programme and your personal commitment to taking a test and learn approach to service design. The challenge of moving to 'bau' is a big one. Perhaps a test and learn approach to that?

Social security should provide stability & support at times of need, but the brutality of the two-child limit is plain to see in what these women & children have been through. Their experience should focus minds on the need to abolish the policy entirely. theguardian.com/society/2024/n…

Two extraordinary statistics from @LondonCouncils today: - One in every 21 children in London now lives in temporary accommodation. - London authorities spend £4 million on temporary accommodation every single day.

Let me be clear, we @MindCharity do not support the mystery job coaches initiative which as far as we know is not a real thing. We support IPS which is already an offer to those people in secondary care not on wards! We want focus on the quality of inpatient care.

It's important to understand that bureaucratic systems are not neutral - they can have a major impact on how someone accesses and experiences vital forms of support. Worth reading this new report to understand how bureaucratic justice can be achieved in #SocialSecurity ⬇️

130 minutes waiting on the Benefits Enquiry Line to talk non-payment of ESA. Still waiting. Concerns about machine learning taking over the world can be allayed. The virtual assistant understood “ESA” but didn’t understand “new-style ESA”. No keyboard data input works.

Breakfast clubs are a welcome start but ending child poverty will need much more. And even with a pledge of no return to the past, austerity is the reality for more and more children as they’re hit by the two-child limit. The policy must be scrapped – and soon. #LabConf24

Coverage of our new briefing with @Shelter and @womensaid on the devastating impact the benefit cap is having on survivors of domestic abuse and families with children. theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

A positive move. Impossible for refugees to prep for independence in 28 days. 56 will allow for finances to be sorted & more opportunity for local authority homeless teams to assess each case. Current sitch is creating massive bottleneck& adding to housing/rough sleeper crisis

@alisongcpag "And societal disparities only worsened as government responses proved inadequate. This must never happen again. The Inquiry’s critical work must pave the way for new protections for children including legally binding child poverty-reduction targets."

@alisongcpag "and deep social inequalities left children on the lowest incomes defenceless in the pandemic. "On the eve of the first lockdown more than one in four children were in poverty and as many as one in two for those from Black and minority ethnic groups. 2/3

We will be taking part in the children & young people's module of the Covid inquiry as a core participant. Our CEO @alisongcpag: “This stage of the Covid-19 inquiry provides an opportunity to investigate how a decade of cuts to family incomes, stark child poverty levels... 1/3

3. He talked about safety almost as much as Sunak used to, and with the same emphasis: cybersecurity and frontier AI risks. Nothing on the basic accountability & governance needed to avoid/mitigate/get redress for actual harms. No mention of civil society & people's rights.

Exciting day in the @CPAGUK offices -

Depressing to see the govt has chosen to bypass @The_SSAC on its first set of #SocialSecurity Regs. Not clear why 'urgency' has been invoked but now Regs won't benefit from SSAC's careful scrutiny before being laid & @DWPgovuk won't benefit from SSAC's sensible advice 🤷‍♀️

Welsh government is putting £36million into advice services over next three years. Fantastic news. Story also on @rightsnet gov.wales/written-statem…

@TheLawSociety Thanks for highlighting this issue. Is the figure only for families who are not passported (eg. any families still on CTC rather than UC by 2025 or families excluding from mainstream benefits but not legal aid)? Or does it take into account proposed UC500 changes?

£41. That’s how much a couple with two children will need to be surviving on per day to qualify for full legal aid next year – which is 57% below the minimum income standard. This is a finding from a recent report that we published today. The 2023 Means Test Review promised to address this problem, but the previous government delayed changes until 2026. In the King’s speech, the government pledged to reduce homelessness and violence against women and girls. These pledges cannot be fulfilled unless it introduces the changes that have already been agreed and budgeted for. Action must be taken to improve access to justice for millions. Find out more about the Means Test Review here: ow.ly/kTsS50SHf7V

We can't talk about the two child limit w/out talking about the benefit cap. Both policies work hand in hand to impoverish children and households where there is a person with a disability. By using the term using two child benefit cap, the impact of both policies is obfuscated.