Institute for Public Policy Research11d
10 years after Indy Ref: Reflecting on Scotland's anti poverty politics
Scotland faced a profound choice. While the ballot paper on the 18th of September 2014 asked voters ‘Should Scotland be an ...
Institute for Public Policy Research2d
Clear majority of employers think the government’s workers’ rights plans will benefit their business – new polling shows
A clear majority of employers think the government’s workers’ rights plans will benefit their business, finds new polling from IPPR, the TUC and Persuasion UK today. The polling, conducted by Opinium, ...
Institute for Public Policy Research3d
A ‘polluter pays’ industry levy could help our food become healthier
No government will truly be able to tackle the UK’s productivity problems and secure the future of the NHS without addressing obesity. Obesity and its related diseases are costing the NHS £6.5 billion ...
Institute for Public Policy Research9d
Delivering for children: Why child maintenance needs urgent reform
Children whose parents have separated and struggle to reach a maintenance agreement are let down by child maintenance services which erects deliberate barriers between parents and the support on offer ...
Institute for Public Policy Research12d
IPPR urges Starmer to be bold to deliver decade of national renewal
IPPR has reacted to Keir Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party conference. Harry Quilter-Pinner, IPPR’s interim executive director, said: “Keir Starmer today set out his vision for a decade of national ...
Institute for Public Policy Research7d
This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown
Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic ...
Institute for Public Policy Research8d
What would the illegal migration bill mean in practice?
Introduced to the Commons earlier this month, the new illegal migration bill represents the UK government’s latest attempt to respond to the recent rise in people crossing the English Channel in small ...
Institute for Public Policy Research13d
Rachel Reeves' speech: pledge to raise investment vital to delivering growth across UK
IPPR has reacted to Rachel Reeves' speech at the Labour Party conference. Harry Quilter-Pinner, IPPR’s interim executive director, said: “Faced with a dire economic inheritance and tough economic ...
Institute for Public Policy Research9d
The climate commons: How communities can thrive in a climate changing world
The climate crisis, and the response to it, present opportunities for communities in the UK as well as threats. The threats that communities face range from the impacts of the climate crisis itself ...
Institute for Public Policy Research2d
Who’s breadwinning in Europe? A comparative analysis of maternal breadwinning in Great Britain and Germany
As the number of maternal breadwinners continues to rise across Europe, this report compares the demographics of this phenomenon both across the continent and in Britain and Germany specifically, ...
Institute for Public Policy Research2d
We must fix it: Delivering reform of the building sector to meet the UK's housing and economic challenges
In the long run, the only way to end the UK's chronic housing crisis is to build many more homes. But are Britain's big builders willing and able to deliver the new houses we need? In this report, we ...