Women’s Budget Group – Full Gender Impact Assessment of the Spring Budget 2017
10 April 2017
The Women’s Budget Group published their full gender impact assessment of the 2017 Spring Budget in March 2017.
The Women’s Budget Group published their full gender impact assessment of the 2017 Spring Budget in March 2017.
The Joseph Rountree Foundation and Crisis published research into homelessness in England in March 2017. The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study, providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in the UK.
The Young Women’s Trust published the ‘What matters to young mums?’ report in March 2017.
The Joint Committee for Human Rights released the report Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability in April 2017. The Committee called for stronger legislation, stronger enforcement, and clearer routes to justice.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission published a review into disability inequality in Britain in April 2017. The report concluded that disabled people were still treated as second-class citizens, and that the road to disability equality was “littered with missed opportunities and failures.”
The Government Equalities Office published Measuring caste discrimination in Britain – a feasibility study in March 2017.
Over the past few years, home ownership has become less affordable for young people in the UK. The Social Mobility Commission reported on the role of family support in home ownership in March 2017.
The Ministry of Justice published a national report on the UK’s third Universal Periodic Review in March 2017, in advance of dialogue with the United Nations in May 2017. The report stated: “The UK is committed to maintaining its strong global role in relation to human rights & continues to comply with international human rights obligations.”
Migrant Voice published a report on the impact of Europe’s Dublin regulation in March 2017. The report concluded that this regulation does not provide an appropriate framework for the dispersal of asylum seeker applications within the European Union.
The Runnymede Trust published a report on race and class in post-Brexit Britain in March 2017.