Title | Social welfare [law] advice provision during the pandemic in England and Wales: a conceptual framework |
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Type | Journal article |
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Authors | Creutzfeldt, N. and Sechi, D. |
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Abstract | An ambitious reform programme in the UK to digitalize the justice system has been underway since 2016. The report on Digitisation and accessing justice in the community (based on the Digitalisation Welfare Advice Survey), on how prepared advice providers were for digital assistance for welfare benefits, found that organisations were unable to meet the demand for services across all levels of social welfare law, and that there is a high demand for digital assistance. This was just before the pandemic. This paper explores the technical capability of the advice sector to provide remote social welfare delivery during the pandemic. It is based on a Pandemic Welfare Advice survey to help understand how advice providers have been working during the first seven months of the pandemic in 2020 and how the migration to remote advice delivery has changed their services and impacted their clients. A conceptual framework of needs is offered as a lens though which to think about the new sets of demands on advisers and clients. |
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Keywords | Sociology and Political Science |
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| Law |
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Journal | Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law |
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Journal citation | 43 (2), pp. 153-174 |
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ISSN | 0964-9069 |
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| 1469-9621 |
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Year | 2021 |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
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Accepted author manuscript | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Publisher's version | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2021.1917707 |
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Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2021.1917707 |
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Publication dates |
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Published | 03 Apr 2021 |
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Published online | 05 May 2021 |
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Supplemental file | License CC BY 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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Page range | 1-22 |
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