Rachael Walker is the Founder of Better Policy, a public and social policy consultancy focused on regional inequality, welfare reform, and local government.
She has led national research on unclaimed benefits, council tax support, and inequalities, and argues that council tax sits at the heart of wealth inequality and regional injustice in the UK. Rachael is campaigning for its abolition and replacement with a fairer, nationally funded system of redistribution.
She works with councils, charities, and national organisations to strengthen policy design, improve equality analysis, and develop bold but defensible reform proposals. A regular media and social media commentator on poverty and public service reform, she combines professional and lived experience with systemic thinking to challenge the way public services are funded and delivered.
