Publications

Publications 11 January 2022

Challenges and Priorities for Health and Social Care in Wales

The challenges facing health and social care in Wales are complex and multifaceted. Systemic and workforce issues affect the smooth delivery of the health and...

Publications 10 January 2022

Education recovery: Responding to the Coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus-related school closures have resulted in significant disruption to children and young people’s learning in schools and colleges in Wales, as elsewhere. In the...

Publications 7 January 2022

Raising the age of participation in education to 18

In England, the compulsory age of participation in education or training was raised to 17 in 2013 and then 18 in 2015. In Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, the...

Publications 16 December 2021

Supporting the Welsh Lifelong Learning system

To assist the Welsh Government in balancing the productivity-related objectives with the societal objectives of lifelong learning, the Wales Centre for Public Policy was asked...

Publications 15 November 2021

Implementing the Race Equality Action Plan

The Welsh Government’s Race Equality Action Plan sets out to tackle structural racial inequalities in Wales in order to make ‘meaningful and measurable changes...

Publications 13 October 2021

Stakeholders’ ideas for tackling loneliness in Wales through the pandemic and beyond

In July 2021, the Wales Centre for Public Policy worked in partnership with Kaleidoscope Health and Care to run a multifaceted engagement programme involving stakeholders working...

Publications 11 October 2021

Who is lonely in Wales?

This series of data insights on loneliness in Wales is based on bespoke analysis of the National Survey for Wales (NSW). It is designed to...

Publications 30 September 2021

Well-being briefings for Public Services Boards

Public Services Boards (PSBs) are required by the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 to produce well-being assessments every five years, in line with local...