Education and Skills

publication 29 February 2016
Promoting Emotional Health, Well-being and Resilience in Primary Schools
Professor Robin Banerjee and Professor Colleen McLaughlin

What works in building emotional resilience of children in Welsh primary schools?

publication 26 February 2017
Harnessing Growth Sectors for Poverty Reduction
Professor Anne Green, Dr Paul Sissons and Dr Neil Lee

This report considers how growth sectors can reduce poverty by providing high quality jobs and opportunities for career progression. Based on research funded by the...

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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...
Commentary 10 August 2018
How can we enable job progression in low paid sectors?
Three reflections from our recent symposium on the topic
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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...
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...
News Articles 18 May 2018
WCPP gives future of work evidence at Senedd
Mair Bell gave evidence to the Assembly's Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee
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Supporting Delivery of an Integrated Early Years System
Reviewing the international evidence on early years systems with the aim of identifying what works and what doesn’t
Projects
Future of Work in Wales
In his speech to the 2016 Labour Party conference the First Minister of Wales, Rt Hon Carwyn Jones, called for a “deep and thorough investigation into...
Projects
Promoting Emotional Health, Well-being and Resilience in Primary Schools
Reviewing what's known about the ways in which schools support their pupils’ emotional health