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Victoria Winckler outlines five ways that social landlords in Wales could help to reduce poverty. Last week I had the privilege of speaking at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual conference in Wales about what social landlords can do Read more »
Victoria Winckler outlines how the opportunities created by the new geography of the south Wales valleys should be grasped in a Valleys Deal. The last nine months has probably seen more airtime devoted to the south Wales valleys than in Read more »
Victoria Winckler crunches some of the latest figures on poverty in Wales and finds some good news and worrying trends. The latest figures on the number and proportion of people living in poverty in Wales came out last week with Read more »
Nisreen Mansour, Policy and Research Officer at the Bevan Foundation, sets out why the Welsh Government’s Code of Practice for Ethical Employment is a step in the right direction in the fight against low pay in Wales. Last week, the Read more »
Ahead of the debate on the Foundational Economy in the Senedd on Wednesday and in the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee a week later, Victoria Winckler suggests what needs to be done to make the most of the opportunities. The Read more »
In the second article about the ‘future of doing good’, Victoria Winckler asks if the third sector in Wales focuses too much on sticking plaster solutions and not enough on fundamental change. There’s hardly an ad from a big charity Read more »
In the first of a series of online articles about the future of ‘doing good’, Victoria Winckler looks at the independence of the third sector in Wales. Wales’ third sector is BIG business. Worth some £3.7 billion to the Read more »
The Welsh Government’s recent announcement on the provision of careers advice makes the case for an Independent Commission on guidance and support all the more pressing, says Victoria Winckler In the Assembly’s Christmas recess, Welsh Ministers announced a ‘revised approach’ Read more »
As Assembly Members get ready to decide whether to support the latest Wales Bill, Victoria Winckler looks at the question of ‘who runs Wales’? Who runs Wales is the title of a tri-annual publication by the Equality and Human Rights Read more »
The Equality and Human Rights Commission Wales’s Fairness not Favours report explores why faith-friendly workplaces matter and what can be done to create them. Sahar Al-Faifi features in the report and the Digital Story that accompanies it. Below, Sahar tells her story Read more »
Looking to the Local The latest edition of our exclusive subscribers’ magazine considers the role of ‘the local’ in Welsh public policy. An eclectic mix of contributors look at how place-based initiatives have worked in Wales, as well as what should be Read more »
‘Resilient communities’ is a phrase that’s been hard to avoid in recent months and is central to the discussions about the future of Communities First. Great though it sounds, it is much less clear what resilience means or how it Read more »
The Bevan Foundation has submitted evidence to the National Assembly for Wales Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee’s inquiry into ‘making the economy work for people on low incomes’. This is the third theme in the Committee’s work on poverty. Read more »
Taking the Valleys Forward: how the Valleys Taskforce can build prosperity and security This short paper brings together some of the Bevan Foundation’s recent work on the economy and labour market into a set of proposals for that would help Read more »
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