Articles by Deven Ghelani
How to unlock £19bn in benefits
By Deven Ghelani | 18 October 2023
As councils grapple with the cost of living crisis, Deven Ghelani explains how they can use data ...
Universal Credit would be better delivery vehicle for energy bills support
By Deven Ghelani | 17 February 2022
Universal Credit has the data on those likely to need support with energy bills and would be a mo...
Counting the costs of council tax support
By Deven Ghelani | 17 August 2021
Council tax support scheme costs have grown by 16% in London during the pandemic. Deven Ghelani s...
Child vulnerability evaluated
By Deven Ghelani | 25 November 2020
Deven Ghelani looks at what more can be done to stop children from falling into crisis, and exami...
Councils get faster data insights to boost their COVID-19 recovery
By Deven Ghelani | 26 July 2020
Policy in Practice has secured new funding from Innovate UK, meaning councils will now have acces...
Let's look out for our residents
By Deven Ghelani | 02 June 2020
As the lockdown reduces it has never been more important for councils to proactively identify and...
Data the key to supporting through UC
By Deven Ghelani | 18 September 2019
As Universal Credit replaces Housing Benefit, local authorities will lose access to the rich data...
London councils unite to reveal pockets of poverty
By Deven Ghelani | 15 April 2019
Deven Ghelani outlines how a collaboration involving 18 London boroughs has resulted in a data an...
Measuring poverty to help solve the problem
By Deven Ghelani | 23 September 2018
We need to measure poverty to be able to hold the Government to account and to tackle the problem...
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