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Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity (2023)
Journal Article
De Vries, R., Baumberg Geiger, B., Scullion, L., Summers, K., Edmiston, D., Ingold, J., …Young, D. (2023). Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity. Journal of Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279423000466

COVID-19 had the potential to dramatically increase public support for welfare. It was a time of apparent increased solidarity, of apparently deserving claimants, and of increasingly widespread exposure to the benefits system. However, there are also... Read More about Welfare attitudes in a crisis: How COVID exceptionalism undermined greater solidarity.

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
Edmiston, D., Robertshaw, D., Young, D., Ingold, J., Gibbons, A., Summers, K., …de Vries, R. (2022). Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security. Social Policy and Administration, 56(5), 775-790. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12803

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.