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Patrick Butler

Patrick Butler is the Guardian's social policy editor

August 2024

  • Clemency Jacques cradles Alex in her arms as she sits on the floor of her living room. Both are smiling.

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’

  • Clemency Jacques and her son Alex at home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘I was petrified’: how DWP threatened woman over carer’s allowance breach

  • Cambridgeshire submerged in flood water.

    Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned

  • Louise Haigh

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ending sexual violence on public transport is ‘absolute priority’, says minister – as it happened

  • RSPB criticised by watchdog for accusing politicians of being liars on X

  • UK’s biggest housing association fined over four-year failure to fix window

July 2024

  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

  • Photo of someone’s energy bill next to seven pounds in cash

    Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners

  • Elizabeth Tait and her son Oliver sitting on sofa at their home

    Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

  • Montage for of people including Stephen Timms

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says Labour finding ‘more mess’ from Tories every day as he launches Great British Energy plan – as it happened

  • Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

  • £5bn debt crisis of special educational needs ‘could bankrupt’ English councils

  • Homelessness in England at highest level on record, watchdog says

  • UK politics: Zelenskiy asks Starmer to ‘show leadership’ and let Ukraine use weapons anywhere in Russia – as it happened

  • English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap

  • Keir Starmer aims to avoid backbench rebellion with child poverty taskforce

  • Vocal critic of carer’s allowance scandal to oversee the benefit as minister

  • Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

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