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COVID-19 and the bypassing of contributory social security benefits
Rod Hick is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Cardiff University. The COVID-19 pandemic poses the biggest test yet for Universal Credit. Writing for the Institute for Government at the start of April, Nick Timmins argued that ‘The acid...
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Blockchains can trace foods from farm to plate, but the industry is still behind the curve
Michael Rogerson is a PhD Candidate in the School of Management at the University of Bath. Glenn Parry is Professor of Digital Transformation at the University of Surrey. Food supply chains were vulnerable long before the coronavirus pandemic. Recent scandals...
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Increasing child benefit: Five tests, five ticks?
Jane Millar is Professor of Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at the University of Bath. Now is the time for some clear thinking about our systems of social security and social protection. With millions of people claiming support...
