Civil Exchange is conducting an independent audit of the Government’s Big Society – the first comprehensive assessment of how far community empowerment, social action and the opening up public services is being achieved.
In October 2011, the European Commission published the ‘Special Eurobarometer 370 Social Climate report’.
In 2011, the union backed anti-cuts campaign website False Economy, published research showing that more than 2,000 charities are facing deep funding cuts.
In May 2011, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published ‘A review of evidence on the links between poverty and ethnicity’.
Bankrupt Britain is a unique atlas giving a comprehensive picture of the effect of the recession on Britain.
On 5 April 2011, the Department for Education published a national strategy document ‘A New Approach to Child Poverty: Tackling the Causes of Disadvantage and Transforming Families’ Lives’.
‘Exploring BME Maternal Poverty. The financial lives of ethnic minority mothers in Tyne and Wear’ is an Oxfam Research Report published in February 2011.
On 3 December 2010, the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances conducted by Frank Field was published.
In October 2010, Oxfam published a discussion paper on ‘A Gender Perspective on 21st Century Welfare Reform’ by Janet Veitch with assistance from Fran Bennett.
The Institute of Education’s Centre for Longitudinal Studies ‘Millennium Cohort Study, Fourth Survey: A User’s Guide to Initial Findings’ was published in October 2010.
