‘Measure what you treasure’ reveals that children experience a significant decline in happiness once they start secondary school. And while both sexes suffer, the problem seems more acute for girls.
In April 2014, the LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights launched a new website to examine connections between investment and human rights.
‘Closing the attainment gap in Scottish education’ by Edward Sosu and Sue Ellis was published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in May 2014.
In April 2014, Thomas Piketty spoke about his book ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ at an LSE Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) seminar.
The 2013 Annual Report of the LSE Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) contains interesting articles and summaries of research from the year.
‘Disabled People’s Financial Histories: Uncovering the disability wealth-penalty’ was published by CASE in April 2014.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights report on ‘The implications for access to justice of the Government’s proposals to reform judicial review’ was published on 30 April 2014.
In April 2014, the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched the Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment resource.
On 30 April 2014, the Home Secretary gave an oral statement to Parliament on reforms to police stop and search powers.
In April 2014, the European Commission published its ‘Report on Progress on equality between women and men in 2013’.
