Communities

publication 28 February 2019
Responding to Citizens in Debt to Public Services
Professor Sharon Collard, Dr Helen Hodges and Dr Paul Worthington

A rapid evidence review

publication 25 October 2018
Preventing Youth Homelessness
Kaitlin Schwan, David French, Stephen Gaetz...

In June 2017, the First Minster announced that he would ask the Wales Centre for Public Policy to contribute research on youth homelessness prevention. An international...

publication 6 July 2018
What Works in Tackling Rural Poverty
John Powell, Dan Keech, Matt Reed...

The Welsh Government has supported a wide range of programmes to address rural poverty and yet recent estimates suggest that almost a quarter of the...

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Commentary 30 March 2020
What we do and don’t know about ageing better in Wales
Recently the Centre invited Dr Anna Dixon, Chief Executive of the What Works Centre for Ageing Better, to visit us and exchange knowledge on ageing...
past event
What Works in Ageing Better?
24 February 2020
There are over 650,000 over-65s in Wales, representing 21% of the Welsh population. Making Wales a good place to grow old is a priority for government,...
Press Releases 30 May 2019
Youth homelessness focus at Urdd Eisteddfod
Dr Andrew Connell will tell the Urdd Eisteddfod how youth homelessness can be eradicated in Wales.
Publications 14 May 2019
Analysis of the Factors Contributing to the High Rates of Care in Wales
On 31st March 2018, there were 6,405 children looked after in Wales, almost 1,900 more children than were looked after in 2006. Over that time Wales has consistently had...
Projects
Implications of UK migration policy on the Welsh economy after Brexit
Building on our previous work looking into immigration policy after Brexit, this project focuses on the likely impact of UK Government migration policies on the...
Projects
Domestic abuse interventions in Wales
This project looks at the evidence on how to keep people in Wales safe from domestic abuse. Our approach involves initially reviewing the international evidence...
Commentary 11 March 2019
How can governments engage with the public about healthcare?
An outline of our latest thinking on this new project
Commentary 7 March 2019
How do we Tackle Loneliness? Evidence on Deprivation and Different Communities
How to alleviate loneliness for materially deprived people, and different interventions for different communities