| Strengths:  | Clear writing, clear-headed analysis, numerate, reliable, pragmatic, experienced, well-informed, collaborative | 
| Presently: | Independent consultant and writer on social policy. Since 1994 I have delivered tailored, on-time writing and analysis to   40 organisations in the UK and six other countries. Repeat clients include Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, OECD, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. Since 2008 I have been co-ordinating CRSP's work on minimum incomes and its other income and poverty related work. 
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| Previously: | 1998-2008  Poverty Adviser, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 
 1990-94
      Education official at OECD
 
 1986-90
      Britain writer and education correspondent, The
      Economist
 
 1984-86
      Assistant editor then editor, Inside Housing
 
 1981-84
      Editor, Youthaid Bulletin,
 
     
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