Latest Early Warning System Findings
Universal credit and childcare (October 2021)
Report highlighting challenges universal credit poses for parent relying on it to pay for childcare and for childcare staff who rely on to supplement their income
Access to universal credit for refugees and their families (October 2021)
Report highlighting difficulties experienced when trying to claim UC
Assessment delays for ill health and disability - update (May 2021)
Update to the previous report following a meeting with DWP officials
Assessment delays for ill health and disability (January 2021)
This report highlights that delays carrying out assessments for benefits mean that many disabled people are not receiving, or are losing support, intended to help them meet the additional costs of ill health or disability
Latest findings from the Early Warning System – July/August 2020
This briefing includes issues with UC calculations, tax credit claimants migrating to UC prematurely, disabled people financially disadvantaged by the lack of work capability assessments being carried out and migrants experiencing hardship due to restrictions on benefit entitlement.
Impact of COVID 19 on families (July 2020)
Impact of COVID 19 on people with disabilities and their carers (July 2020)
Impact of COVID 19 on migrants (July 2020)
Domestic abuse
Social security and domestic abuse (February 2019)
Scottish social security
Social Security Scotland is One (September 2019)
Universal credit
- Early Warning System report on universal credit and childcare (February 2020)
- Early Warning System report on univeral credit and childcare (August 2019)
- Universal credit and childcare costs - what you need to know (August 2019)
- Universal credit in hospital (June 2019)
ARCHIVED REPORTS
Administrative problems
Benefit cap
Briefings for Scottish Parliament
- Parliamentary reception briefing (November 2014)
Children service's planning
- Seminar briefing: Child poverty (April15)
- Welfare reform and children's services planning (October 2014)
- Measuring child poverty in Scotland (December 2015)
Devolved powers
- Seminar briefing: Using devolved powers to promote the health and wellbeing of children in Scotland
- Seminar report on the use of future powers: Sure Start maternity grants and the Healthy Start scheme (December 2015)
Disability
EEA nationals
- Benefits for EEA nationals (March 2015)
Housing
Sanctions
- Policy update: Sanctions update (November 2014)
- Policy update: Sanctions (May 2014)
- Early Warning System findings on the impacts of benefit sanctions: Implications for policy and practice in Scotland (August 2015)
Scottish Welfare Fund
- Seminar briefing: Scottish Welfare Fund (April 2015)
Tax credits
- Policy update: Tax credits (December 2015)
Two child limit
Universal credit
- Early Warning System findings on the roll out of universal credit (December 2018)
- Seminar briefing: Universal credit (March 2016)
Seminar presentations - Mitigating the impacts of universal credit:
- Rachel McKechnie, Scottish Government
- Nicola Dickie, COSLA
- Marian Davies, One Parent Families Scotland
- Hanna McCulloch and Kirsty McKechnie, CPAG
Seminar workshops:
- Universal credit and income crisis, John Campbell, North Lanarkshire Council
- Universal credit and income crisis, Barbara Donegan, CPAG in Scotland
- Universal credit and housing, Kirsty McKechnie, CPAG in Scotland
- Universal credit and housing, Jeremy Hewer, SFHA
- Universal credit and childcare, Mark Willis CPAG in Scotland, Maggie Simpson, Scottish Childminding Association