A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

During the coronavirus storm these structural inequalities played a part in worsening housing insecurity and health issues for BAME communities. They include deep inequalities in the labour markets, ...

Tackling hardship must involve improving circumstances for people receiving ‘work-related disability benefits’ (health-related Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance) who face ...

The Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...

This study looks at the shaky foundations of material life for many people, and highlights a worrying increase in the markers of mental ill-health. It examines links between the two, documenting the ...

As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

Across Britain, millions of people are experiencing hardship, going without basic essentials such as enough food, heating and appropriate clothing. Against this worrying backdrop, this research ...

Entry rates into very deep poverty are 3 times higher in Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households than in white households. For the past decade, an average of around 4% of people not in ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...