Environment and Net Zero Implementing the Socio-economic Duty: learning from experience June 9, 2021 by cuwpadmin On 31st March 2021, the Welsh Government commenced section 1 of the Equality Act 2010, known as the socio-economic duty. It requires that public bodies, when making strategic decisions, have “due regard to the need to reduce the inequalities of outcome resulting from socio-economic disadvantage”. This signals the most recent attempt from the Welsh Government […] Read more »
Community Wellbeing Volunteering lessons from the pandemic June 7, 2021 by cuwpadmin Amanda Carr, Director of Swansea Council for Voluntary Service (SCVS), reflects on how new research into volunteering and wellbeing during the pandemic matches up with her own experiences. I wanted to start by taking the opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy Volunteers’ Week and to say a huge thank you to all those volunteers […] Read more » Community collaboration Local government
Tackling Inequalities Creating an anti-racist Wales May 25, 2021 by cuwpadmin The Coronavirus pandemic has increased the urgency of actions to eliminate racial disparities in Wales. Analysis shows that the risk of deaths involving COVID-19 among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups is significantly higher than that of those of White ethnicity in Wales. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic employees are also more likely to work […] Read more »
Environment and Net Zero Zoomshock: Is remote working the future of the Welsh economy? May 14, 2021 by cuwpadmin The Welsh Government has recently announced a ‘long-term ambition to see around 30% of Welsh workers working from home or near from home, including after the threat of Covid-19 lessens’. The shift to remote working during the Coronavirus pandemic has led to what some experts are describing as a ‘Zoomshock’, whereby economic activity moves from […] Read more »
Environment and Net Zero PhD Internships – Learning by doing April 29, 2021 by cuwpadmin In January 2021, the Wales Centre for Public Policy welcomed two doctoral students on three-month ESRC funded internships. Aimee Morse from the University of Gloucestershire studied a local evidence ecosystem - a case-study of a farmer group in North Wales, and Findlay Smith from Aberystwyth University worked with us to study the Welsh Government’s use […] Read more »
Governance and Implementation It ain’t what you (can) do it’s the way that you do it April 14, 2021 by cuwpadmin How can devolved governments deliver distinctive policies? Just because a government has the power to do something, it doesn’t always mean that it can actually do it. So what makes the difference? We explored this question in a recently published article which we wrote with Steve Martin. The question matters because making policy and law […] Read more »
Environment and Net Zero Climate Change: Making the Transition Happen in Wales April 7, 2021 by cuwpadmin Recent developments give reasons to be ambitious about what Wales can do to tackle climate change. In December 2020, the UK’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) recommended that Wales move to target Net Zero emissions by 2050, above its previous recommendation of a 95% reduction. Environment Minister Lesley Griffiths has committed to putting this target in […] Read more »
Uncategorized 2020 - In Review This report provides a brief overview of the work we undertook in 2020, with embedded hyperlinks to our full reports. You can download the report below. 2020 was the year when ‘following the science’ became a matter of life or death. Here at the Wales Centre for Public Policy we worked tirelessly with ministers […] Read more »
Tackling Inequalities Embedding Black and minority ethnic history, identity and culture into Welsh education March 17, 2021 by cuwpadmin “Black history is Welsh history, and Welsh history is Black history” Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales (October 2020) The new Curriculum for Wales 2022 presents an interesting challenge for progressing the ambition to see the representation of Black, Asian and minority ethnic perspectives, histories and contributions embedded in the educational diet of every […] Read more »
Health and Social Care Domiciliary Care: what it’s really like? February 17, 2021 by cuwpadmin My Name is Lucy and I currently work as a Policy Officer for the National Commissioning Board, (NCB). The NCB is made up of representatives from Health & Social Care organisations in Wales. The aim of the board is to support and promote the integration of Health & Social Care through commissioning, policy and practice. […] Read more »
