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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...