This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice considers how the government can fulfil its ambition to end mass dependence on emergency food parcels. Lonely Nation Part 4 considers how the government can fulfil its ambition to end mass dependence on emergency food parcels. To achieve this, it argues that the government...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at how to address illegal drug addiction and strengthen law enforcement’s role. The UK is facing a drug addiction crisis of unprecedented proportions, with drug poisoning deaths reaching a record 5,448 in 2023, marking an 84 per cent increase over the past decade....

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice calls on the new government to ensure that the needs of disabled and sick people are at the heart of their plans to ‘get Britain working’. In 2021 the Centre for Social Justice published Now is the Time, a landmark report on disability in...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at how to tackle loneliness through the built environment. This report shows how the government can tackle loneliness through the built environment, defined in this report as the man-made structures and features that viewed collectively, form the places in which people live. For...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice explores the impact of forced labour in the UK. Our new report, produced in partnership with Justice and Care, At what cost? Exploring the impact of forced labour in the UK reveals the reality of this type of modern slavery which is rife through...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice offers a termly analysis of official data relating to absence from schools (Spring 2024). Latest government data shows absence from schools now endemic. Severe absence up 12 per cent year from last year, 160 per cent up from pre-pandemic. One in five children remain...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice seeks to shed light on young people’s experiences of precarious work at a national level. A recent focus on the use of zero-hour contracts has resulted in such working arrangements being singled out by the Government as an especially unfair form of employment. Yet,...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at how to fix broken Britain and create a united nation. 'A United Nation' addresses the five priority areas identified in the CSJ Social Justice Commission’s recent 'Two Nations' report which laid out an unflinching review into the state of poverty in the...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at the school absence crisis sweeping Scottlsh schools. When schools reopened in Scotland after subsequent lockdowns, the expectation was that every child would come back to school, ready to re-engage with their education in person. The reality has been very different. New data...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Justice looks at ending loneliness among older people. Britain is a lonely nation. This report shows that nearly six in 10 adults feel lonely at least some of the time. This equates to 31.4 million people. But older people buck the trend. Just over four in...