Alasdair B.R. Stewart

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a wide range of suffering induced by welfare conditionality can be understood as social abuse, including the demoralisation of the futile job search treadwheel and the self-administered surveillance of the Universal Jobmatch panopticon.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of data generated in qualitative longitudinal interviews with 207 UK social security benefit recipients with experience of a range of mental health issues, concluding that welfare conditionality is largely ineffective in moving people with mental health impairments into, or closer to, paid work.

TL;DR: The authors highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supranational level, the UK national level and in migrants' mundane'street level' encounters with social security administrators), come together to restrict and have a negative impact on the social rights of EU migrants living in the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study investigated the specific issues faced by practitioners in Scotland in supporting disabled children at risk of significant harm and found that participants appeared to be ‘muddling through' in practice and many practitioners lacked confidence when working with disabled children.

TL;DR: Since devolution, Scotland has been perceived as an international trailblazer in homelessness policy as discussed by the authors, principally due to The Homelessness Etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 which led to the ‘priority...