Benefit sanctions have important implications for claimants mental health - This paper provides robust evidence that JSA sanctions lead to increases in self‐reported anxiety &depression. New!: Punitive welfare reform and claimant mental health onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Article alert! 📢 Our own Evan Williams has just published an excellent article on the impacts of benefit sanctions on anxiety/depression 👏 Check out in Social Policy & Admi nistration: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… It's #openaccess! Details 👇

The impact of DWP benefit sanctions on anxiety and depression blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

"These cuts are short-sighted and will seriously damage the prospects of people in the city just as we enter a period of huge economic uncertainty." dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

5 Glasgow Citizens Advice Bureaux will close after vital funding is refused, that means no CAB service in Castlemilk, Easterhouse, Parkhead, Bridgeton and no city centre service, the remaining 3 will be hit with significant cuts! Who will help you fight your corner if we can’t?

Important new evidence on the uneven geography of benefit sanctions 👇 Individuals in rural areas appear to be disproportionately affected by 'higher-level' sanctions - complete benefit withdrawal for 13 WEEKS for a first sanction.

So in other news😬, this briefing by Commons Library is very useful on the raft of COVID social security measures and plans for their withdrawal: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

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Useful Commons Library overview this by @FrancisHobson on the *aims* of UK welfare reform 2010-2020. Follow up briefing on the *effects* ... commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

The Economy and Society summer school website for the 2021 virtual event is now live and applications are open. The schedule looks amazing, please share widely. All are welcome and details are available at the link below. economyandsocietysummerschool.org

MSSP researcher project spotlight #1: MSSP members Kate Summers and David Young are working on the major new Welfare at a Social Distance ESRC research project on social security & employment support during COVID-19. Find out more about the project here: distantwelfare.co.uk

Reminder: paper abstracts are due next week (23rd March) for those interested in exploring issues around discretion, welfare conditionality & digitalisation at the Social Policy Assoc (online) conference. Hope to see you there. DM any questions

Throughout this #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we'll be sharing research and outputs on matters pertaining to #MentalHealth produced by Urban Studies & Social Policy colleagues over the past couple of years. Keep an eye on this #thread 🧵 for more 👀👇 #MentalHealthMatters 1/-

PGR members - do submit your papers for our Postgraduate Conference (5-6 July). Presenting participants will be eligible for next year's Excellence in Doctoral Research prize: social-policy.org.uk/excellence-in-… Check your emails and SPA Online for details!

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The elephant in the room of social security reform inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/31/the…

Great piece - with potential epiphany for readers

Good National Audit Office resource on employment support during the pandemic: nao.org.uk/report/dwp-emp… Lots of additional expenditure and schemes (Kickstart/Restart), though key challenge will be end of furlough (September 2021)

Five steps to getting started as a social policy ECR …securityandsocialpolicy.wordpress.com/2021/06/25/fiv…