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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Publications 25 October 2018
Preventing Youth Homelessness
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...
Press Releases 25 October 2018
Prevention better than cure for youth homelessness, finds new report
The WCPP worked with homelessness experts from Canada on the project
Projects
Behavioural change and household recycling
Welsh local authorities, enabled by the Welsh Government, have achieved the highest household recycling rates in the UK. There is however more that can be...
Projects
Responding to citizens in debt to public services
This project aimed to find out how public services and their contracted partners in Wales might better respond to vulnerable debtors, especially those subject to...
Projects
Increasing the Impact of the What Works Network across the UK
Wales Centre for Public Policy is working with What Works Scotland, Queen’s University Belfast, the Alliance for Useful Evidence and a range of What...
Projects
Better Services for Looked After Children
Improving outcomes for children in care is high up on the agenda, not only for local authorities as their legally responsible guardians, but for social...
Press Releases 19 July 2018
Smacking children no more effective than other forms of discipline says new report
Report also finds negative impact of smacking appears to be very small
Publications 19 July 2018
Parental Physical Punishment: Child Outcomes and Attitudes
The former Cabinet Secretary for Children and Communities asked the PPIW to undertake a review of the evidence on children’s attitudes towards physical punishment,...