Patrick Butler
Social Policy editor, The Guardian. Winner of the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism 2025.
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- Delighted that @joshhalliday.bsky.social and me have made the Paul Foot Award/Private Eye long list for our investigation into the carer's allowance scandal (and congratulations to our fellow nominees) www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...
- Good @theguardian.com leader on fixing the carer's allowance scandal: positive progress, but more to do www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- My @theguardian.com story: DWP to overhaul carer’s allowance checks in wake of overpayment scandal: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- "In a society that... demands perfection from the mess of modern existence, I will share a secret: it is entirely possible to be happy and fulfilled and disabled or sick, and to proudly carve out your own path." From the new book by @francesryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- My @theguardian.com story: Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Revealed: nearly 20 councils in England ‘at risk of insolvency’ due to Send costs, as overspend debt set to grow by £2bn over the next 12 months theguardian.com/education/20... by me, Pamela Duncan, Matt Pearce, and Raphael Boyd.
- “If the government goes ahead with these cuts, then new care homes are going to have to be available,”: @francesryan.bsky.social interviews people about the calamitous knock on effects of Pip disability benefit benefit cuts www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Powerful piece by @joshhalliday.bsky.social (and one with extra force in the light of the Pip cuts): "Nobody found him in time": how neglect and stress led to the deaths of a full-time carer and his son www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
- "A Labour government, really?": my @theguardian.com analysis on yesterday's disability benefit cuts announcement www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- My Guardian analysis: “It’s what keeps me awake at night” - from underfunded demand to alleged "profiteering" by private specialist schools, how England's Send policy has pushed councils to the edge of bankruptcy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- My Guardian story: Ministers plan major changes to Send education in England as Guardian analysis shows scale of local council deficits theguardian.com/education/20... w/ Raphael Boyd and Matthew Pearce
- @tanialt.bsky.social Hi Tania, I wondered if we could speak - I'm a reporter at the Guardian, and it's about SEND policy. Patrick (Patrick.butler@guardian.com)
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- My Guardian story: Ministers to scrap controversial 'computer says yes' DWP program allowing landlords to deduct cash from tenants’ benefits without their consent www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Tell us: have you received a Macmillan Cancer Support hardship grant? Do you give them out? How will the charity's decision to cut the iconic payments affect cancer patients?https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/tell-us-have-you-received-a-macmillan-cancer-support-hardship-grant
- In case you missed it: Macmillan Cancer Support sacks a quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme for financially struggling patients as it battles financial pressures www.theguardian.com/society/2025... By @andrewgregory.com and me
- Macmillan Cancer Support sacks a quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme for financially struggling patients as it battles financial pressures www.theguardian.com/society/2025... By @andrewgregory.com and me
- My Guardian story: Stunning victory for unpaid carer Andrea Tucker as court overturns DWP demand for £4,600 carer's allowance overpayment www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- "As a mental health clinician, I cannot emphasise enough how many relapses have been triggered by the relentless media drumbeat about 'cracking down' on benefits": good Guardian letters on incapacity benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Labour must seize the moment to show child poverty matters in push for growth www.theguardian.com/business/202... Great summary of the choices and challenges facing Labour, by @guardianheather.bsky.social
- My Guardian story: "It’s like the Post Office scandal – it takes the little people to stand up”: unpaid carer to challenge DWP in court over carer's allowance injustice www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- "That a Labour govt is seemingly willing to sacrifice poor and disabled people’s benefits... to protect the wealthy... from paying a bit more tax is the kind of dystopian deal that feels at best perverse and, at worst, a betrayal." By @francesryan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- My @theguardian.com story: Six financially struggling English councils granted permission to raise council tax bills above cap limits as concerns grow over local authority finances. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Have you, a family member or friend - been 'evicted' (or threatened with eviction) from a care home as a result of council underfunding? theguardian.com/society/2025... We'd be very interested to hear your story.
- Ministers could allow council tax to rise by up to 25% to prevent bankruptcies - by me and @phillipinman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- My @theguardian.com story: DWP ‘blocked whistleblower giving evidence to carer’s allowance review’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- My @guardian story (w/Libby Brooks): Challenge facing ministers laid bare as new analysis shows child poverty on course to increase in most of the UK by the end of this parliament, with only Scotland bucking the trend www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all - brilliant piece by @francesryan.bsky.social on the failures of continuing healthcare, "the unloved relation at the health and care party, put in the corner and ignored." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- My @guardian story: DWP "Computer says Yes" program that allows landlord to deduct hundreds of pounds from tenants’ universal credit without checking with the claimant ruled illegal by the courts. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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