With the arrival of winter temperatures this week the issue of Fuel Poverty has started to make its annual journey into the media. This time it will be given an even higher prominence due to recent energy price rises. The…

Images of people queueing at soup kitchens were long ago consigned to history. Fast forward 80 years and they are back in their modern equivalent.  Foodbanks feed the hungry, people who are unable to cope on limited incomes with rising…

The Occupy protests have focused attention on, amongst other issues, the gap between the rich, typified by bankers, and the rest of society. The gap between rich and poor is not just a city phenomenon – it is right here…

Apart from a few ‘flat-earthers’ there is general agreement thatWales’ education system is in need of reform and revitalisation. The most worrying indication of system failure was provided by last year’s PISA results, but these only confirmed the picture painted…

Today, the Bevan Foundation publishes a pamphlet on a subject of real social policy significance for Wales. Our aim is to draw attention to a topic which sums up the Westminster coalition government’s assault on those who are being propelled, by its policies, into deep and…