Publications

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 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 June 2021

Collaboration and policy implementation at the local level in Wales

A case-study evaluation of a farmer group in North Wales

Publications 17 June 2021

Improving evidence use in local government

Fostering links between academia and local government has long been a concern for those interested in promoting evidence-informed practice. While the barriers and enablers of...

Publications 7 June 2021

Volunteering and wellbeing during the Coronavirus pandemic

Volunteering has played a crucial role in supporting communities during the pandemic. Interest in volunteering saw a dramatic spike early in the pandemic, and volunteers...