What a great team!!! Wishing you all so well with the project. We should meet up some time and discuss all of our shared interests

Meanwhile, it may be a new year but lots still to reflect on from the last. my first piece of 2026 in @bigissue.com calls on Labour to continue the work it began in 2025 in starting (at long last) to speak about social security as a force for good www.bigissue.com/opinion/bene...

Thanks Scott! Excited to see what 2026 brings. Have a great festive break

Isn’t it just! A very special way to end the working year

But most of all, the biggest and most heartfelt thanks to the day-in-day-out-incredible parents and carers who make up @changingrealities.bsky.social & the facilitation team who support them, which includes @cpaguk.bsky.social and researchers from @glasgow.ac.uk @lshtm.bsky.social

Thanks to our wider consortium of funders inc @nuffieldfoundation.org @therobertsontrust.bsky.social which enables us to work collaboratively, centring the expertise that comes w/ lived experiences of social security to work for changes to both the substance of policy and to how decisions are made.

Enormous thanks to @trustforlondon.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @impurbanhealth.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social @cpaguk.bsky.social for making everyone's attendance at this reception possible, which was a special moment to reflect on a remarkable - if challenging - year

Ooh thanks! The postal museum looks amazing (but not that cheap). The mail ride sounds fun though!

Research conducted by a team from @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk @manchesterup.bsky.social incl @emmatominey.bsky.social @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @katejandersen.bsky.social @ilonapin.bsky.social in partnership w/ @cpaguk.bsky.social

Thanks to the parents we interviewed.

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Our mixed-methods analysis evidences both the good Scottish Child Payment can and does do, & its further potential in meeting @johnswinney.bsky.social ambitious and bold pledge to eradicate child poverty in Scotland familyfinances.study

Lisa from @changingrealities.bsky.social has described how the Scottish Child Payment has been a game changer for her & her family, given them a & has called on the government to go further in their investment in Scottish Child Payment by increasing its rate cpag.org.uk/news/more-br...

With the removal of the 2-child limit bringing additional fiscal headroom for @johnswinney.bsky.social govt January budget, we argue that a further investment to boost the value of the Scottish Child Payment would be money well spent www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

With the removal of the 2-child limit bringing additional fiscal headroom for @johnswinney.bsky.social govt January budget, we argue that a further investment to boost the value of the Scottish Child Payment would be money well spent www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Scottish policymakers have expressed concern about the potential cliff edges within the Scottish Child Payment cautioning that a further increase to the benefit might undermine work incentives

But our new analysis shows that these fears are misguided

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In two new working papers for @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social we document the impact on wellbeing of the Scottish Child Payment, with over 70,000 children in Scotland escaping deprivation and/or food insecurity because of this investment in social security sticerd.lse.ac.uk/CASE/_NEW/PU...

The Scottish Child Payment provides almost £27 per week for every child <16 living in a low-income family.

Our mixed-methods comparative study ‘Family Finances’ has been interviewing parents in Scotland & England & undertaking quantitative analysis to explore what - if any - difference it makes