Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Social care workforce crisis in Wales: what is causing it and what is being done to fix it? The consistent message in recent submissions to the Senedd enquiry on the Health and Social Care workforce strategy was that the social care workforce is in ‘crisis’. Services are struggling to find or retain staff. And, of course, the provision of high quality care is dependent upon the social care professionals who have the skills, […] Read more Topics: Employment Health inequalities work and skills October 11, 2022
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Promoting pathways out of poverty – and preventing the pitfalls of poverty entry Enabling ‘pathways’ out of poverty must be a fundamental goal of any anti-poverty strategy. But how should such a strategy seek to achieve this? And how can we ensure that these ‘pathways’ translate into meaningful reductions in levels of poverty across Wales? Across European nations, the promotion of paid work has become central to anti-poverty […] Read more Topics: Employment Poverty and social exclusion work and skills September 30, 2022
News Tackling Inequalities Ymateb hirdymor yn hanfodol er mwyn trechu tlodi yng Nghymru, yn ôl casgliad adolygiad Read more Topics: Education inequalities Employment work and skills September 27, 2022
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Should the age of participation in education or training be raised to 18 in Wales? Dr Matt Dickson is Reader in Public Policy at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at the University of Bath. Sue Maguire is an Honorary Professor at the IPR at the University of Bath. Their research on raising the age of participation to 18 has recently been published by the Wales Centre for Public Policy. […] Read more Topics: Education inequalities Employment work and skills February 3, 2022
News Tackling Inequalities Lifelong learning is the key to unlocking Wales’ full potential Lifelong learning should be a key focus for Wales’ Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (CTER), according to a report from Cardiff University. The study, by the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP), calls for enhanced rights and entitlements to education, training and community learning; supported by career advice at key life change points as […] Read more Topics: Education inequalities Employment work and skills December 16, 2021
Blog Post Community Wellbeing Why go back to the office? The Coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly catalysed one of the most rapid transformations in many people’s working lives for decades. UK data suggests that while 5% of workers worked from home prior to March 2020, this increased to approximately 43% at the beginning of the first lockdown in 2020. The same study suggests that around half […] Read more Topics: Employment Lived experience work and skills August 4, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Zoomshock: Is remote working the future of the Welsh economy? 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 Topics: Economy Employment work and skills May 14, 2021
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities Caring for the Care Sector: How Can We Support New Models of Home Care Social care needs help. We can only describe a service as in “crisis” for so long until that becomes the norm, and the very name “domiciliary care” makes it sound like a chore that needs to be completed. In our drive to “fix” the social care system we have begun to speak about it as […] Read more Topics: Employment Health inequalities work and skills December 3, 2020
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities What does Brexit mean for the Welsh health and social care workforce? Regardless of what happens on the broader Brexit negotiations, change is coming on January 1; free movement will end, and the new “points-based system” will be introduced. In new research for the Wales Centre for Public Policy, Craig Johnson, Elsa Oommen and I looked at what this will mean for the health workforce in Wales; […] Read more Topics: Employment Health inequalities work and skills October 29, 2020
Blog Post Tackling Inequalities The Vital Role of Tertiary Education Post-16 education and training are vital to individual opportunity and to the green economic growth Wales needs if it is to match the ambition of the Well-being of Future Generations Act. Wales has a proud tradition of valuing learning and knowledge for what they are, not just for what they contribute. The target of 50% […] Read more Topics: Education inequalities Employment work and skills August 14, 2020
