👤 Patrick Butler Social policy editor

7 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
7
2026-09-25 – 2026-10-27
Claims per article
34
236 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,631
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
57%
Health
29%
Education
14%
Most-tagged topics
EnglandNHSDWPWalesthe Department for Work and PensionsCarers UKCheshireCovid

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
4 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.29 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-19 · The Guardian · Politics
Youth services in parts of England in state of emergency, children’s commissioner says
3 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-10-27 · The Guardian · Politics
Unpaid carers say chancellor’s plan to scrap allowance cliff edge falls short
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-10-14 · The Guardian · Politics
Stopping Pip for ADHD or autism would not make big savings, says thinktank
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-14 · The Guardian · Politics
Campaigners decry slow progress in repaying victims of carer’s allowance crisis
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-10-08 · The Guardian · Health
No ‘snowflakes’: mental health review says today’s youth have it harder and harms are real
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-04 · The Guardian · Education
‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-25 · The Guardian
Two-year NHS waiting times reveal system’s struggle with rise in ADHD and autism awareness
🔮 Fonagy is expected to deliver his final report in the next few weeks. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Guardian
‘You have 10 minutes to decide’: answering the life-changing call to become a kinship carer
🔮 He assumed it would be about one of his pupils, but it was about his six-week-old niece. assertive
2026-10-08 · The Guardian
No ‘snowflakes’: mental health review says today’s youth have it harder and harms are real
🔮 Sceptics may yearn for a mythical time when troubled young people just had to pull their socks up, fit in and learn to deal with life’s inevitable hard knocks. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Guardian
Campaigners decry slow progress in repaying victims of carer’s allowance crisis
🔮 Campaigners said the slow progress was “deeply disappointing” and warned that at current rates it would take around 40 years for the exercise to be completed. “After years of waiting for justice, only a small number of carers have had their cases reviewed five months into this exercise. assertive
2026-10-14 · The Guardian
Stopping Pip for ADHD or autism would not make big savings, says thinktank
🔮 Banning people with anxiety, ADHD or autism from claiming disability benefits would not deliver major financial savings and would probably make it harder for them to get or stay in a job and participate in society, a leading thinktank has warned. assertive
2026-10-19 · The Guardian
Youth services in parts of England in state of emergency, children’s commissioner says
🔮 The children’s commissioner, Rachel de Souza, said in some local authorities individual service failures or systemic problems meant “no child could reasonably be expected to thrive and those that do thrive do so against the odds”. assertive
2026-10-27 · The Guardian
Unpaid carers say chancellor’s plan to scrap allowance cliff edge falls short
🔮 But Shahar is angry that most carers hit with unjust overpayments in the past will still have to repay them, for all the promise of a different future. assertive
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