Project Director: Christina Beatty / Steve Fothergill
Project Duration: 2014

This project documents the impact of welfare reforms down to the local/neighbourhood level across all districts in Scotland. This is especially important because a small number of districts, notably Glasgow and Edinburgh, cover a high proportion of Scotland’s population and because the district-level statistics are likely to obscure big differences in the impact between local areas. Certain neighbourhoods are being hit extremely hard and this project provides evidence as to just quite how hard some areas are hit. The new study builds directly on the foundations of a previous study by the team on Scotland for Scottish Parliament which provided district level figures for the impact of welfare reform.