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Wales has long celebrated its achievements in bringing gender equality into public and political life. But there are questions about how deep those changes went, and whether they will be sustained in coming years. This briefing highlights what devolution did for women’s representation Read more »
Women’s poverty is hidden in the official statistics, which look only at household incomes – ignoring unequal access to resources withing households, the reliance of women on their partners’ income to avoid poverty, and the risks of financial abuse – Read more »
Unpaid care is one of the biggest issues facing women, and is a topic raised time and again by women from all backgrounds. It profoundly shapes women’s lives, often affecting their own health, working lives, learning and incomes. This briefing looks at the Read more »
Women are often thought of as a single, homogeneous group. But women are diverse, with their experiences shaped by other characteristics such as their age, disability, ethnicity, sexuality or religion as well as their gender. This unique briefing provides Read more »
The Bevan Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation have jointly submitted evidence to the fourth strand of the National Assembly for Wales’s Communities, Equality and Local Goverment Committee’s Inquiry into Poverty. The evidence draws on recent research undertaken by both organisations. Read more »
The Bevan Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation have submitted a joint response to the Welsh Government’s consultation on its Child Poverty Strategy. The response addresses the questions asked in the consultation, including: whether the goal of eradicating child poverty by Read more »
This report for Blaenau Gwent Communities First North Ebbw Fach Cluster looks at the experiences of unemployed people in the area. The research is based on interviews with people participating in the Work Club in Winchestown, Brynmawr. It finds that Read more »
At the Carnegie Challenge Debate organised by the Bevan Foundation with the generous support of the Carnegie UK Trust, Peter Kelly, Director of Scotland’s Poverty Alliance, set out his ideas and proposals for change. His presentation was published in our Read more »
Every year in Wales about 32,000 people die. Palliative care provides help with physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of living with a terminal illness, and some sort of palliative care is thought to be of benefit to around three-quarters of Read more »
‘Tackling poverty’ has a very high political priority in Wales, said to be ‘number one’ by the First Minister and other Ministers alike. With the number of people in poverty set to rise, this commitment is very welcome. But behind 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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