DWP Launches National Measurement Of Household Food Insecurity

From April 2019, the Department for Work and Pensions will be including the ten adult questions from the US Government’s survey on household food insecurity into the UK Family Resources Survey.   This is an annual survey, covering all four nations and has a large sample of 20,000 households.  Data is gathered over the course of a year and reported a year later.  In terms of food insecurity measurement, data collection will begin in April 2019 and be reported in April 2021.  There is lots of scope to do analysis at a disaggregated level to understand drivers…

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Worrying Clause inserted by DWP demands respect for Esther McVey

A very concerning clause in the contract for delivering the Government’s new Work and Health Programme states that signed-up charities must “pay the utmost regard to the standing and reputation” to Esther McVey and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Disability News Service revealed the existence of this clause in a great piece of journalism available here. The fact that any Government body feels that this kind of clause is appropriate is very worrying. No Government body should ever be free from criticism, and should certainly not make…

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