Ilona Pinter 🧡
Researcher #FamilyFinances @uofglasgow.bsky.social & #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Lover of strangers & islands linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
- I mean it's only a matter of time before a woman without access to cash support living in an asylum hotel support goes into labour and needs to get to hospital. Irresponsible & dangerous policy change.
- An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Hopefully more on this today at the oral evidence session focused on children and young people as part of the Home Affairs Select Committee's inquiry on routes to settlement: committees.parliament.uk/work/9389/ro...
- Despite the good quality of this debate, there's a lack of consideration given to the proposed penalties for access to benefits, which are likely to punish individuals and families unevenly. Families with children & those in need will be discouraged from accessing support.
- Encouraging to see so many MPs raise concerns about the gov's earned settlement reforms & refugee reforms that will inflict harm to children & families especially those on low-income, ppl in need & marginalised groups & pushing more into poverty...
- Reposted by Ilona Pinter 🧡Useful resource for anyone submitting a response to Earned Settlement proposals from perspective of refugees - Home Office research on refugee mental health & access to employment: highlights barriers caused by mental ill health & need for e.g. benefits & secure housing www.gov.uk/government/p...
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- This is today! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Still time to register for next week's #IdentitiesEvent! Investigating Social Change: Migratory Stratifications as a Fresh Analytical Tool 28 Jan, Online In collaboration w/ University of Glasgow Social Anthropology & Migration www.eventbrite.co.uk... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ilona Pinter 🧡The data shows us that children suffer the highest rates of poverty within the different sections of the population. 📈 At the time the Labour government came to power, there were 4.5 million children in poverty, up 600,000 on pre-pandemic levels. This is a damning statistic.
- Reposted by Ilona Pinter 🧡✍️ Are you conducting research, or have first-hand experience of border control? Want to share your perspective with the wider public? Write for us! We welcome contributions from practitioners, academics and people with lived experience. More info & how to submit ➡️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
- Listening to Badenoch this morning on DiDs about her politics & the importance of freedom, it's hard not to think of her pledge to import an ICE-style removals force esp with what's happening in the US. Not something she was asked about on DiD of course but is THIS what she means by freedom?
- Reposted by Ilona Pinter 🧡There is a huge volume of submissions, reflecting how important, controversial and IMO vindictive and damaging these proposals are. Linked below Good ones from @ippr.org, @ilonapin.bsky.social, @nandosigona.bsky.social & many others [2/3] committees.parliament.uk/committee/83...
- 'Not one, not two, but 80 cleaners at Great Ormond Street Hospital have won a landmark legal case after the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled they were subjected to indirect racial discrimination over pay and working conditions.' www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/exclusive-...
- Last week the Scottish Gov Budget set out a raft of measures including how it would be cutting child poverty to meet its targets & changes to the Scottish Child Payment www.gov.scot/publications... @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social @uofgussp.bsky.social #childpoverty #ScottishChildPayment #FamilyFinances
- Our piece with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social in response to last week's Scottish Budget @scotnational.bsky.social While ⬆️ Scottish Child Payment for 🚼 from next year is very welcome ✅ we think all children in Scotland living in poverty need more support & here's why: www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
- Our piece with @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social in response to last week's Scottish Budget @scotnational.bsky.social While ⬆️ Scottish Child Payment for 🚼 from next year is very welcome ✅ we think all children in Scotland living in poverty need more support & here's why: www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
- Probably worth a read for anyone who wants to know more about where the UK is headed: 'The Production of Precarity in Denmark’s Asylum Regime' www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- 📢 💷 Ahead of the Scottish government budget for 2026-27 published this afternoon, we've published a policy briefing based on findings from our Family Finances study in partnership with colleagues and participants from the @changingrealities.bsky.social project 🧵
- Strong stuff from the Chancellor 💪🏻 One slight prob: her gov's NRPF policy (which restricts access to MOST benefits not just UC & which they're planning to extend to those w/ ILR) does precisely this: discriminates between children based on where parents are from www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- And *spoiler alert* this policy does disproportionately impact children from racialised backgrounds. But she's right that NO child deserves to grow up in poverty & be excluded from vital support.
- Reposted by Ilona Pinter 🧡1/🧵📣NEW STATEMENT Members of the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group have shared a new statement responding to recent changes to the asylum system and how these plans make them feel as people who came to the UK seeking safety. Share on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DSXLsi3jZI...
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- 'How the Scottish child payment has made a real difference – and not discouraged parents from working' op ed by @emmatominey.bsky.social @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social in @scotsman.com via www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
- Great to see our Family Finances findings covered in the papers - more detail & links to working papers here: bsky.app/profile/ilon...
- 'No evidence Scottish child payment really encourages worklessness, study finds' www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
- 'No evidence Scottish child payment really encourages worklessness, study finds' www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
