Ministers still hoping to fine destitute folk on the streets £2,500, but are magnanimously moving towards holding back from doing so on the basis they “smell” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… (Yes, “smells” are expressly mentioned in the draft law as it stands)

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Join us for a conversation with Geoff Mulgan & Paul Kissack 'How can we land the work of collective imagination in spaces of power?' 2pm, 25th April bit.ly/4ajCnuc Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Very pleased to be asked to do this, and very grateful to everyone who took time out to talk to me. I hope it proves useful.

🗓️ From today, most benefit rates rise by 6.7% due to the normal annual ‘uprating’ rules to match inflation.

📉 But even after this, #UniversalCredit ’s basic rate will still fall far short of what’s needed to afford essentials like food, household bills and vital travel.🧵1/5

In the last quarter of a century, British government has only changed hands once.

What happened in 2010, and what can we learn from it now - should something similar happen in the next few months?

Join us on Zoom for what should be a lively discussion, tomorrow at 12.30pm:

Spot on

ICYMI the first of our three-part blog series on tackling hardship in neighbourhoods is out ⬇️

Interesting to see the centre-right setting out the case for citizen inheritances, re-balancing taxation from work to wealth, fairer residential property value taxes, employee ownership, and more.

I love to celebrate birthdays but this is one we can never celebrate. And it still continues to exist, pulling hundreds of thousands of children into poverty #twochildlimit End Child Poverty

Lack of money is the core of poverty & money is central to solutions

But community & connection are crucial too for building psychological & material resilience

I saw out my Joseph Rowntree Foundation fellowship editing this series with Katie Schmuecker & Rachel Casey

Have a look

📅 For the next three weeks, we'll be publishing a blog series on tackling hardship in neighbourhoods.

In their introductory blog, Rachel Casey and @katieschmuecker consider the role of social connection and how we understand hardship ➡️ jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods….

Interesting to see the centre-right setting out the case for citizen inheritances, re-balancing taxation from work to wealth, fairer residential property value taxes, employee ownership, and more.

DWP could be 'fantastic' under Labour, says ex-minister Stephen Timms: 'Don't write the DWP off' bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Delighted to see the launch of our Restore flagship project, the Pertwood Plain, in The Guardian today. This is an exciting chance to restore at scale; reinstate lost processes and demonstrate what a true living ecosystem should and can become.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

“Were the government to declare the end of poverty to be a national goal and set clear deadlines, there would be a way out of the current emergency”. Gordon Brown theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Thank you to UCL Policy Lab for this feature on my work. Grateful to Marc Stears James Baggaley and proud to be part of the family UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Nobody should go without food, yet food insecurity in the UK is rising 📈

Great to see Anushka Asthana on Peston explain our analysis 🔽

💥 7.2m people were food insecure in 2022/23

💥 26% of UK Black households are food insecure

💥 30% of social renters are food insecure

🚨NEW

A quarter (26%) of all black households in the UK are at risk of, or unable to afford enough food.

Watch Anushka Asthana break down exclusive Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis of food insecurity in the UK 👇

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