In 2015, the APPG for Health in All Policies undertook an assessment of the prospective impacts of the Welfare Reform and Work Bill on child poverty and health. The approach taken was to establish perceptions of the relationship between poverty, inequality and health, and then to drill down into the potential impacts that the different measures of the Bill would have specifically on child poverty and subsequently child health, and health inequalities. You can read the Inquiry’s report here.
Three years on, the APPG for Health in All Policies is conducting a follow-up review of the actual impacts of the Welfare Reform and Work Act (WR&WA) (2016), particularly on children and disabled adults. The APPG has received written evidence and will be holding an oral inquiry session on Monday 22nd July, 3-6pm, Committee Room 19, House of Commons.
There will be two panels, the first of academics between 3-4.30pm and the second of key stakeholder groups between 4.30-6pm. Those giving evidence will include, Prof David Taylor-Robinson, University of Liverpool; Prof Peter Dwyer, University of York; Dr Heather Brown, Newcastle University; Dr Aaron Reeves, University of Oxford; Dr Danny Taggart, University of Essex; Dr Max Davie, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Martin Taulbut, Scottish Health Observatory; Tom Pollard, Mind; Maeve McGoldrick, Crisis; Helen Barnard, Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Ellen Clifford, Disabled People Against Cuts; Annie Howard, Disabled People Against Cuts; Michael Griffin, Parkinson’s UK representing Disability Benefits Consortium.
The inquiry session will be open to the public – any attendees need to use the Cromwell Green entrance to Parliament and allow up to 30 minutes to go through security and make it to the Upper Committee Corridor of the House of Commons.