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

This project documents the impact of welfare reforms down to the local/neighbourhood level across the South Wales Valleys. The study gets beyond district-level statistics which 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 previous study by the team 'Hitting the Poorest Places Hardest: the Local and Regional Impacts of Welfare Reform which provided district level figures for GB on the impact of welfare reform.