Questions from the Department for Work and Pensions:
Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all
What works at a local and/or regional level to support families in crisis, reduce child poverty and build resilience in communities? How can government work most effectively with others to support delivery of this?
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all
What are the short, medium and long-term costs and impacts of child poverty for children and families in poverty, and for society as a whole? For example, impacts on education, health and future employment outcomes. How does this vary by time spent in poverty?
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Enable people to get into work, improve skills, support young people and boost employment and productivity
How do people with neurodiversity experience current employment and health support interventions? How could we make our interventions more inclusive and is it possible to include neurodiverse people in existing provision, or would bespoke support work better?
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Enable people to get into work, improve skills, support young people and boost employment and productivity
What works to support disadvantaged groups into employment? By disadvantage we mean claimants with more complex needs and backgrounds such as, refugees, ex-offenders, care leavers/care experienced and those with experience of substance dependency or homelessness.
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Enable people to get into work, improve skills, support young people and boost employment and productivity
In what ways do housing circumstances affect the way people move into, remain in, and progress in work? This includes the role played in labour market outcomes by temporary accommodation, housing affordability, poor quality housing, insecure accommodation and the private and social rented sectors.
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Enable people to get into work, improve skills, support young people and boost employment and productivity
What is the evidence base for effective joint working arrangements involving support delivered through, and beyond, the benefit system in partnerships involving DWP, the NHS, Department for Education (DfE), local areas, local delivery partners, the voluntary sector and other organisations?
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Enable people to get into work, improve skills, support young people and boost employment and productivity
What works to improve outcomes in a context of concurrent localised and national delivery of employment (and combined employment and health) support? And how can we best capture and share learning?
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026
Enable people to get into work, improve skills, support young people and boost employment and productivity
What influences people's participation in training and how can we utilise the benefit system to incentivise the take-up of training, including to support key growth sectors?
Department for Work and Pensions, 2026