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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The Implications of Brexit for Wales and Devolution
20 March 2018
We examine what implications will Brexit have for devolution and public policy in Wales and the other devolved administrations.
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What Works to Improve Community Resilience and Wellbeing?
22 February 2018
On the 22nd February we held an event with Public Service Board (PSB) representatives to explore how the Centre can help provide evidence to support...
Commentary 21 March 2018
Brexit, Immigration and Wales: Professor Jonathan Portes Vlog
Professor Jonathan Portes (King's College London) discusses the implications that Brexit will have on immigration, and what this will mean for Wales. This video was...
Publications 3 August 2017
Tackling Exploitation in Low-waged Work
This report explores how to tackle exploitation in low-waged work.
Publications 19 May 2017
Immigration Policy after Brexit
This report explores the likely immigration policy options the UK Government will consider post Brexit.
Commentary 21 July 2016
Tackling Rural Poverty – Identifying the Causes
On a visit to Beijing in 2015 I met the Chinese Vice-Minister for Rural Development. A jovial man, who looked back fondly on the two years...
Publications 27 May 2016
De-escalating Interventions for Troubled Adolescents
This report by the Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW) provides advice on the potential to de-escalate interventions in the lives of troubled adolescents. To...
Commentary 24 March 2016
Why We Need Evidence on Poverty
Poverty is a long-standing and apparently intractable problem in Wales. Around 23% of population, some 700,000 people, live on household incomes of less than 60% of the median....