This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at boosting mothers’ employment and earnings through accessible childcare. As part of the Centre for Progressive Policy’s (CPP) Women in the Labour Market programme, this report explores how inadequacies in the childcare systems act as a barrier to women’s participation in the labour...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the large number of households on low incomes paying rents they cannot afford. JRF's latest analysis shows the large number of households on low incomes paying rents they cannot afford in the private rented sector. It provides new analysis on the depth and...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at broadening the decarbonisation debate to involve anti-poverty groups and perspectives. The distributional impacts of climate change policies are a growing part of the debate on decarbonisation as the discussion has shifted from ‘whether’ we transition to the ‘how’. However, there is a need to broaden these...

This report from UK think tank New Local looks at the case for community-powered conservatism. New Local and the New Social Covenant Unit are pleased to co-publish this report by 10 Conservative MPs from the 2019 intake, making the case for community power as the future of the party. Trusting the People explores how to...

This report from UK think tank the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at answers for a more equal, just housing system. During the coronavirus storm these structural inequalities played a part in worsening housing insecurity and health issues for BAME communities. They include deep inequalities in the labour markets, the social security system, and the effects...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at opportunities to target petty bribery in Nigerian schools. Underinvestment and corruption in Nigeria’s education sector have created a context where providers of education services are presented with routine opportunities to demand and expect bribes from parents and other service users for their children’s passing grades....

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies looks at long-lasting health benefits of Sure Start. New IFS research finds that one of England’s biggest early years programmes delivered long-lasting health benefits for children through their teenage years. Taken together, the savings from reduced hospitalisations up to age 15 offset around 31%...

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue looks at public attitudes towards the natural environment. Whilst the natural environment may not be relatively high on the UK public’s list of policy priorities, this report has nonetheless demonstrated that the majority of the UK public engages with the natural environment, frequenting it regularly and widely...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies looks at how household incomes were changing in the UK up to the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines how household incomes were changing in the UK up to the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how other measures of household living...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at the challenge of dismantling ‘systema’. Ukraine’s system of crony capitalism – described in this paper as systema – reflects the absence of a strong state, and an enduring relationship between big business and the country’s political class that puts their own interests before those of...