The University College London and Resolution Foundation have launched a research project to better inform UK policy.
Exploring Inequalities aims to combine research and evidence on inequality in the UK, with the aim of leading to informed and joined-up policy making.
The current legal framework in England does not guarantee the right to adequate housing and does not conform with international human rights standards.
This March 2019 report (pdf) from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) presents the lived experience of people who were affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower.
The government should introduce a shorter route to permanent status for long-resident children with lower application fees that do not make a profit for the Home Office.
This is according to the State of Children’s Rights in England 2018 by the Children’s Rights Alliance for England.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is recruiting a policy officer, in Edinburgh. The post is 35 hours (full time equivalent), with each job-share partner rotating so that they work 14 hours one week, 21 hours the next.
The impact of massive cuts in central government funding of local government since 2010 has been ‘destructive and debilitating’ for women. This is according to
The Work and Pensions Committee published the government’s response (pdf) to its report on benefit sanctions, in February 2019. The government: accepts the recommendation to
The Office for Budget Responsibility have published their welfare trends report for 2019 (pdf), in January 2019.
This report focuses on disability benefits – payments that contribute to the extra costs associated with daily living and mobility for people with disabling conditions.
Just under half of LGBT people in Scotland have experienced depression in the last year, including seven in ten trans people. This is according to
Fears of UK government policy highlight the ‘chilling effect’ of immigration policy on access to healthcare. This is according to a November 2018 report (pdf)
‘The Brexit vote came in part as an outcome of the aforementioned inequalities’, says the December 2018 report (pdf) from the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) on Brexit and inequality.
