Report Tackling Inequalities Poverty and social exclusion: A way forward The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) was commissioned by the Welsh Government to conduct a review of international poverty and social exclusion strategies, programmes and interventions. A suite of reports has been produced as part of this project, reviewing a significant amount of evidence at different levels, including evidence of individual programmes that aim […] Read more Topics: Poverty and social exclusion September 26, 2022
Report Tackling Inequalities International review of effective anti-poverty policies and programmes As part of the Wales Centre for Public Policy’s (WCPP) review of poverty and social exclusion, the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the LSE was commissioned to conduct a review of the international evidence on promising policies and programmes designed to reduce poverty and social exclusion across twelve key policy areas. The […] Read more Topics: Local government Poverty and social exclusion September 26, 2022
Report Tackling Inequalities Lived experience of poverty and social exclusion in Wales This report outlines the results of four workshops conducted in different areas of Wales involving people with direct lived experience of poverty and social exclusion. The workshops form part of a broader project conducted by the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) for the Welsh Government to deliver a review of international strategies, programmes and […] Read more Topics: Lived experience Poverty and social exclusion September 26, 2022
Report Tackling Inequalities International review of effective anti-poverty strategies This report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI), reviews the international evidence on what makes an anti-poverty strategy effective. The report forms part of a wider project that is intended to practically inform Welsh Government policy decisions on poverty and social exclusion. The focus of the report is on the anti-poverty strategy itself, as […] Read more Topics: Poverty and social exclusion September 26, 2022
Report Tackling Inequalities Review of poverty and social exclusion in Wales The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) have prepared two reports on poverty and social exclusion in Wales as part of our work to deliver a review of international poverty and social exclusion strategies, programmes and interventions for the Welsh Government. One report focuses on quantitative evidence, and another focuses on secondary qualitative evidence relating […] Read more Topics: Lived experience Poverty and social exclusion September 26, 2022
Report Community Wellbeing Children's social services and care rates in Wales: A survey of the sector Wales has seen a rise in both the number and rate of children looked after. The rate is now higher than any time since the 1980s. In addition, Wales has consistently had more children looked after per 10,000 of the population than the rest of the UK. This trend is a cause for concern; particularly […] Read more Topics: Poverty and social exclusion March 11, 2022
Report Community Wellbeing Multi-agency working and outcomes for children looked after ‘At risk’ children and families will frequently interact with multiple agencies and services. It has been a long-held aspiration that these bodies and the services that they provide are better coordinated and, moreover, centred on the people that they are seeking to help. With other work focusing on the factors that lead to children being […] Read more Topics: Community collaboration Poverty and social exclusion September 22, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Implementing the Socio-economic Duty: learning from experience 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 Topics: Poverty and social exclusion June 9, 2021
Report Community Wellbeing Domestic abuse interventions in Wales This report considers the interventions to address domestic abuse and keep people safe, placing these in the legislative context of the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (VAWDASV) Act 2015. The Welsh Government asked the Wales Centre for Public Policy to revisit the evidence on interventions to keep people safe, specifically in terms […] Read more Topics: Loneliness Poverty and social exclusion September 23, 2020
Report Tackling Inequalities Children looked after in Wales On 31st March 2019, there were 6,845 children looked after in Wales, a further increase of 440 compared to the previous year. As a result, the gap between the rate of children looked after in Wales compared to other parts of the UK has continued to widen. Within Wales, while most Local Authorities have seen […] Read more Topics: Loneliness Poverty and social exclusion September 9, 2020
