The impact of welfare reforms and welfare to work programmes: a literature review

The objective of this research is to improve the evidence base of the equality and human rights implications of recent and proposed welfare reforms and government spending decisions since 2010. It is exploring the impact on different protected groups and individuals within those groups, including according to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. The project forms part of a wider EHRC programme of work, which also includes an interlinked cumulutative impact assessment of the reforms.