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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

February 2025

  • The Department for Work and Pensions’ offices in central London

    DWP ‘blocked whistleblower giving evidence to carer’s allowance review’

  • Hampshire county council offices

    Ministers could allow council tax to rise by up to 25% to prevent bankruptcies

January 2025

  • Anonymous schoolgirls walking to school

    Child poverty predicted to rise in most of UK except Scotland

  • A laptop showing a universal credit website page

    DWP program that automatically approves landlord benefit deduction requests ruled unlawful

  • A man shows the work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, some carpentry work as she visits a skills centre in London.

    Can Labour cut welfare spending and still be seen as a party of social justice?

  • A woman in a wheelchair uses a ramp

    Overhaul ‘unsustainable’ incapacity benefits system, Lords committee urges

  • Incapacity benefit cuts consultation was ‘misleading’ and unlawful, judge rules

  • Parental mental health biggest cause of child protection referrals in England

  • Charities forced to ‘evict’ adults in their care to stay solvent, survey finds

  • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024 raises more than £1.7m

  • ‘Hotel of mum and dad’ in UK at its fullest in two decades, study finds

  • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    Guardian and Observer readers give more than £1.5m for victims of war

  • ‘Get this done’: Andrew Dilnot attacks three-year plan for English social care

  • Watchdog criticises ex-bosses of king’s charity over donor dealings

  • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    Guardian and Observer readers raise £1.25m so far in charity appeal

December 2024

  • Children look at the carcass of a bus hit by an Israeli strike

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
    Guardian and Observer charity appeal donations pass £1m

    Charities pay tribute to readers’ generosity that is ‘helping to make our world a better place’
  • Graphic with woman and child and school and court sign

    Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    Spiralling demand and shrinking budgets: why England’s Send system is buckling

    No quick fix for a system that is failing children and parents and pushing councils into insolvency

    • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
      Guardian and Observer charity appeal donations pass £800,000

    • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
      Guardian and Observer charity telethon drives donations beyond £500,000

    • Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024
      The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate

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