Communities

Publications 2 November 2018

Legislating to Prohibit Parental Physical Punishment of Children

This report explores what might be learnt from countries which have introduced legislation to prohibit parental physical punishment of children. Based on a review of...

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

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

The Wales Centre for Public Policy has worked with What Works Scotland, Queen’s University Belfast, the Alliance for Useful Evidence and a range of...

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,...

Publications 6 July 2018

What Works in Tackling Rural Poverty

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...