A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

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 Government has proposed the largest cuts to social security since 2015. As well as reducing expenditure on health-related benefits, the Government hopes these reforms will support more disabled ...

Recognising wealth inequality's harmful effects, and mindful of the need to increase its public and political salience, social change actors are increasingly engaging with wealth inequality as ...

This study looks at the shaky foundations of material life for many people, and highlights a worrying increase in the markers of mental ill-health. It examines links between the two, documenting the ...

As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

Across Britain, millions of people are experiencing hardship, going without basic essentials such as enough food, heating and appropriate clothing. Against this worrying backdrop, this research ...

Entry rates into very deep poverty are 3 times higher in Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households than in white households. For the past decade, an average of around 4% of people not in ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

Our homes should be the foundations for our lives. However, all too prevalent are forms of renting that are high cost, insecure and poor quality, and which therefore hinder our economic security, ...