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Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled (2022)
Journal Article

UK government policies over several decades have sought to actively encourage disabled people to take up paid employment, most recently by focusing on the ‘gap’ between employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people. These policies implicitly a... Read More about Ambivalence about disability: Why people with mild learning difficulties who are looking for employment may not identify as disabled.

Brexit and the reform of social security coordination: The UK’s metamorphosis from rule maker to rule taker (2020)
Journal Article

This article examines the United Kingdom’s negotiating position on the revision of the EU Coordinating Regulations proposed by the European Commission in December 2016, in the context of Brexit and the negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement. The Wi... Read More about Brexit and the reform of social security coordination: The UK’s metamorphosis from rule maker to rule taker.

Diluting substantive equality: why the UK government doesn't know if its welfare reforms promote equality (2017)
Book Chapter

The UK Coalition government introduced a raft of welfare reforms between 2010-2015. As part of its response to the financial crisis reforms were designed to cut public expenditure on social security and enhance work incentives. Policy makers are requ... Read More about Diluting substantive equality: why the UK government doesn't know if its welfare reforms promote equality.

The UK and social security coordination after Brexit: reinventing the wheel or Mad Hatter's tea party (2017)
Journal Article

On 23 June 2016 the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. On 17 January 2017, the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, stated that what she is seeking is “Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of th... Read More about The UK and social security coordination after Brexit: reinventing the wheel or Mad Hatter's tea party.

Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea (2016)
Journal Article

Special non-contributory benefits (SNCBs) include benefits intended solely for the specific protection of disabled people. SNCBs are not exportable under EU law. This paper asks whether SNCBs discriminate against disabled people exercising their righ... Read More about Free movement and special non-contributory benefits for disabled people: between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. Second report (Carers) (2016)
Report

Purpose of the report: This is the second report of the study of comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. This report considers assessment systems for carer payments in relation to... Read More about Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments. Second report (Carers).

Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments, First Report (Final) (Incapacity for Work) (2016)
Report

This is the first report of the study of comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult ‘incapacity’ social welfare payments. The purpose of the research is to examine systems for medical/disability assessment an... Read More about Comparative systems of assessment of illness or disability for the purposes of adult social welfare payments, First Report (Final) (Incapacity for Work).