Analytics Archives - Policy in Practice

Tackling economic inactivity: How will a locally led approach work?

Tackling economic inactivity via bold reforms must be fueled by data insights if it is to be effectively delivered by local areas

Policy in Practice partners with the Welsh government to put LIFT into local authorities to close Wales’ £2 billion missing benefits gap

We talked about how a single unique identifier will enhance our MAST platform at the recent National Childrens and Adults Services conference

How two councils fared with DWP’s MOU compliance audits was discussed at a recent Universal Credit data roundtable. Read the insights

Pension Credit campaigns are working but which ones are more effective – DWP or local authority campaigns?

Analysis of Pension Credit take up shows that more eligible pensioners are taking up the benefit than the government expected

Our new analysis finds that the rise in Pension Credit claims is likely to eat into the government’s savings earlier than expected

Real time poverty metrics are now freely available to policymakers courtesy of a new online interactive portal called RAPID

Policy in Practice and JRF have developed RAPID, an advanced tool to track aggregate rates of low income and poverty using real time data

Our new analysis about the Winter Fuel Payment for The Observer also finds that 130,000 pensioners are within £500 over the income threshold