Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security

Edmiston, D; Robertshaw, D; Young, DHJ; Ingold, J; Gibbons, AR; Summers, K; Scullion, LC; Baumberg Geiger, B; de Vries, R

doi:10.1111/spol.12803

All Outputs (5)

Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on both our key findings and our experiences of undertaking the research during the pandemic. First, we examine the experiences of claimants, focusing specifically on Universal Credit (UC) and those who were engaging with the be... Read More about Welfare at a (social) distance : accessing social security and employment support during the Covid-19 and its aftermath.

Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans (2022)
Book Chapter

Research published prior to Covid-19 has illustrated some of the difficulties that veterans can experience within the benefits. Drawing upon unique insights from the UK’s first substantive qualitative research focusing on veterans within the benefits... Read More about Social security during Covid-19: The experiences of military veterans.

Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Young, D., & Bates, G. (2022). Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), 1713-1725. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13777

After a decade of austerity spending cuts and welfare reform, the COVID‐19 pandemic has posed further challenges to the finances, health and wellbeing of working‐age, low‐income people. While advice services have been widely seen (and funded) as an i... Read More about Maximising the health impacts of free advice services in the UK : a mixed methods systematic review.

Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Young, D. (2022). Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK. Journal of Social Policy, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727942200006X

Changes in the labour market, high rates of working age poverty, major welfare reforms and more recently the Covid-19 pandemic have drawn renewed attention to income security. Existing research has identified the important role of relational support... Read More about Income insecurity and the relational coping strategies of low-income households in the UK.

Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security (2022)
Journal Article

Local state and third sector actors routinely provide support to help people navigate their right to social security and mediate their chequered relationship to it. COVID-19 has not only underlined the significance of these actors in the claims-makin... Read More about Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security.