Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Fair work must be about more than who keeps the tips A new law announced by UK prime minister Theresa May will see restaurants in Britain being banned from unfairly taking tips from staff. Ensuring staff keep their tips is certainly a positive move to promote fairness. However, as tips are often used by employees to supplement their low pay, shouldn’t improving quality of work be […] Read more Topics: Economy Employment work and skills October 3, 2018
Blog Post Community Wellbeing Working in partnership In this blog, our Senior Research Fellow, Megan Mathias discusses how the Centre draws in expertise to work on Wales’ public policy challenges At the Wales Centre for Public Policy, we’re privileged to work across a vast array of policy areas. For example, right now we’re working on issues as diverse as Wales’ tax base, […] Read more Topics: Community collaboration August 23, 2018
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities How can we enable job progression in low paid sectors? The value that sectors such as care, retail and food add to Wales’ economy, is not widely recognised in the pay packets of the vast majority of their respective workforces. Many employees struggle to make ends meet and gaining experience and training to progress beyond entry level jobs to better paid positions can be particularly […] Read more Topics: Employment Poverty and social exclusion work and skills August 10, 2018
Blog Post Learning the lessons from Carillion – thoughts from our panel discussion Many are still struggling to assess what caused Carillion’s spectacular demise, and how it could be prevented in future. It was with this in mind that on Wednesday 4th July the WCPP hosted an expert panel to discuss the lessons to be learnt in Wales from Carillion’s collapse and consider the future of outsourcing in […] Read more Topics: Economy Employment work and skills July 26, 2018
Blog Post Community Wellbeing The income tax base in Wales – who’ll pay what to the Welsh Government? Drawing on the report he co-authored for the Wales Centre for Public Policy, The Welsh Tax Base: Risks and Opportunities after Fiscal Devolution, Guto Ifan of the Wales Governance Centre explores the income tax base in Wales. From next April, the income tax paid by Welsh taxpayers will be partially devolved to the Welsh Government. UK government […] Read more Topics: Economy Local government July 23, 2018
Blog Post Community Wellbeing Rural poverty: the case of Powys As part of our Rural Poverty series, Dr Greg Thomas (Powys County Council) uses Powys as a case study to explore the issues surrounding rural poverty. Rural poverty is often hidden from public view and belies stereotypical images of rural areas as rolling hillsides and chocolate-box villages. Powys is one such area that experiences […] Read more Topics: Poverty and social exclusion June 26, 2018
Blog Post Research and Impact Evidence-informed policymaking: does knowledge brokering work? Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside the Wales Centre for Public Policy to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking. This article originally appeared on the LSE British Politics and Policy blog. There’s widespread and sustained interest in the role of evidence in policymaking. But because policymaking […] Read more Research and Impact: Methods The role of KBOs June 18, 2018
Blog Post Environment and Net Zero How community-based solutions can improve rural transport in Wales In a guest blog as part of our rural poverty series, Wales Community Transport Association Director Christine Boston explores how community-based solutions could be the key to improving transport in rural Wales. Now the sun is shining, it is hard to remember the extreme bad weather we experienced in the first part of 2018. However, […] Read more Topics: Community collaboration Just Transition June 18, 2018
Blog Post Community Wellbeing Public Service Boards and wellbeing Public Service Boards (PSBs) across Wales last month published their wellbeing plans, outlining how public services and national bodies intend to work together to improve social, economic, environmental and cultural wellbeing in localities across Wales. Established under the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act, the PSBs are now putting their plans into action and developing […] Read more Topics: Local government June 12, 2018
Blog Post Research and Impact Strengthening the Links Between Academic Research and the National Assembly for Wales It is widely accepted that academic research has an important role to play in policy formation and scrutiny, but there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ way of making this happen. The National Assembly for Wales (aka the Welsh Assembly) is involved with some exciting initiatives to make sure that evidence gets to the politicians who need it […] Read more Research and Impact: Methods The role of KBOs May 16, 2018
