Claudia Wood

About Claudia Wood

Claudia is Deputy Director at Demos. Previously, she was head of policy and research at the Resolution Foundation and spent 5 years at the Social Market Foundation as a senior researcher and fellow working on early years policy, social mobility and education reform. She spent a period seconded to the prime minister's strategy unit in 2005 to work on the Education and Inspection Bill.

Byrne, Beveridge and welfare myths

9 January 2012 | Claudia Wood

By jumping on the coalition’s anti-scroungers welfare bandwagon, Labour’s Liam Byrne has squandered a chance to make progressive changes to the welfare system Read more

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Osbornomics: is everyone included?

29 November 2011 | Claudia Wood

The Chancellor’s growth and jobs initiatives must be made to work for all unemployed people, including the most vulnerable Read more...

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Heaven knows we’re miserable now

15 November 2011 | Claudia Wood

Wellbeing measurements are not a luxury we can ill-afford in a recession. They will help ensure we all emerge from it happier and healthier Read more...

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Riots, rhetoric and rumours

31 October 2011 | Claudia Wood

Giving courts greater discretion when docking benefits from those convicted of rioting is  basically a sensible move. But the detail has been lost amidst a tide of rhetoric about welfare scroungers Read more...

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Personally speaking

19 October 2011 | Claudia Wood

Personalisation does not always require personal budgets. Person-centred care can be achieved in a number of ways, including in a residential setting Read more

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For whose benefit?

5 October 2011 | Claudia Wood

Plans for a universal benefit are sensible but not the way the government is introducing it – in particular by blaming claimants for the failings of the old system Read more

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IDS goes back to Victorian values

3 October 2011 | Claudia Wood

Iain Duncan Smith’s moral crusade on welfare at today’s Conservative Party conference does not address the concerns of 2.51 million unemployed   Read more

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Lib Dems: taking a stand on welfare?

19 September 2011 | Claudia Wood

A motion that slipped under the radar at the Lib Dems’ conference in Birmingham could make a big difference to disabled claimants’ lives  Read more

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Disability cuts: how are you coping?

12 September 2011 | Claudia Wood

New research shows there as many ways of making cuts to disability services as there are authorities – and there’s no ‘magic bullet’ for coping with them  Read more

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This time it’s personal assistants

5 September 2011 | Claudia Wood

The growth in number of personal assistants is good news, but some careful thinking is needed to address the regulation issues that arise  Read more

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