Here and over the next couple of days is a round-up of news items and data sources, bridging the gap of the last few months on welfare related issues. This will become a regular post. Keep your fingers on the … Continue reading →
Would we complain if councils spent £0.5m to avert another ‘Baby P’? Would we say that children’s services left our roads with pot holes if funding had to be taken from other budgets, like maintenance or roads? These are the … Continue reading →
The Department for Work and Pensions has published data about posts in Job Centre Plus. The organogram shows the title, hierarchy and salary of positions in the company. The PDF shown above (click to see full size) is also available … Continue reading →
The Department for Work and Pensions has published data about Senior Civil Service posts, including the title, hierarchy and salary. Information is given on a variety of sectors such as Job Centre Plus, disability, employment, welfare and Directgov. The organogram … Continue reading →
The Department for Work and Pensions has promised a series of improvements to an online tool promoted as an example of “open data” after concerns were raised by Help Me Investigate. Stat-Xplore was one of the case studies described in … Continue reading →
Victims of domestic violence in London are facing the longest wait for re-housing in five years, with the average household forced to remain in temporary accommodation for just over two years, writes Jess Denham. The number of women seeking re-housing … Continue reading →
Official data shows a dramatic increase in the number of people on zero hour contracts since 2005, writes Danielle Hudspith. In the six years since then the number of people working on zero hour contracts between April and June rose from … Continue reading →
On Saturday a number of media outlets reported Government claims that nearly 900,000 people dropped benefit claims “rather than undergo a tough new medical test“. Reports in The Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail, MSN and Wales Online, based on a Press Association … Continue reading →
These are the welfare-related links we’ve been looking at between January 26th and March 22nd: Jobcentre was set targets for benefit sanctions – DWP seeks law change to avoid benefit repayments after Poundland ruling – Local authority housing statistics data … Continue reading →