Policy in Practice

Webinar:

Track the living standards of low income households

Wednesday 17 January 2018

Housekeeping

• Audio check

• Please ask questions

• Polls and a survey

• Finish by 11:30

Speakers

Deven Ghelani

Director

Chris Buckman

Exeter City Council

Terrin Mathew

Technical Analyst

Agenda

• Challenges facing low income households and local authorities

• Why Exeter City Council is tracking the living standards of low income households

• Practical examples of how household level data can help

• Discussion and demonstration: Turning analysis into action

• Questions and answers

We make the welfare system simple to understand, so that people can make the decisions that are right for them

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Over to Deven

2018 will be tough year for families

“A cocktail of welfare cuts, rising rents and looming inflation means that housing is becoming increasingly unaffordable for

people, particularly within the private-rented sector.”

• Affordability crisis (esp. in PRS)

• Weaker work incentives

• A local safety net under pressure

• Vulnerable groups hit hardest

The impact varies by region and household type, with repercussions on other council services.

Councils must do more with less…

Councils have reduced funding

• 40% cut in central government funding since 2010, set to fall further

• Half of all councils seeing funding disappear altogether

Child poverty is rising

• Inflation, the benefits freeze and benefit cuts to Universal Credit, limiting child tax credit to 2 children and the Benefit Cap continue

• More than 5m children set to be living in poverty by 2020.

And you have to implement ongoing reforms, while protecting your most vulnerable households

… and protect the most vulnerable

Homelessness reduction act

• 128,000 children in TA

• 9,000 rough sleepers

• Who is at risk, and action plan

Universal Credit rollout

• Are Budget changes enough?

• Who wins and who loses?

• Who is on Universal Credit?

Disability and employment

• WCA and its impact on hardship

• Work and Health programme

• In-work poverty and progression

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Poll: What is the biggest challenge you face?

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Do you know who your most vulnerable residents are, and how best to help them?

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How Policy in Practice helps

Chris Buckman, Exeter City Council

Policy in Practice’s approach

We combine all your data and

and link it over time

Typically running over 2,000

calculations on each household

To help you identify trends,

pinpoint support and track

outcomes

We combine data on Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support, arrears and support payments, over two years

And model the impact of national and local policies, to show the combined impact of current and planned reforms

To help you to make better strategic and operational decisions, and learn what works.

The benefits of our approach

We show the impact of all policies combined, on individual households

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User cases demo

1. Universal Credit: support vulnerable households2. Homelessness prevention: tackle homelessness

Over to Terrin

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Questions

Current LIFT dashboard clients

Next steps

Download Tracking Living Standards

Download Universal Credit Roadmap

Short survey:

• We value your feedback

• Ask questions or clarifications

• Take another look at our dashboard

• Request information on preventing homelessness and predictive analytics

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Thank you

Deven Ghelanideven@policyinpractice.co.uk07863 560 677

Chris Buckmanchris.buckman@exeter.gov.uk01392 277888

hello@policyinpractice.co.ukoffice 0330 088 9242