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Future Welfare State Programme

The decades of disruption: New social risks and the future of the welfare state

Publication Report Public services New Skills at Work Equality Population and demographics Future Welfare State IPPR

Our Future Welfare State Programme looks to understand the big shifts that will transform our country in the decades of disruption to come and how we can ‘future-proof’ our welfare state to manage them - creating a prosperous and just society.

A family stimulus: Supporting children, families and the economy through the pandemic

A family stimulus: Supporting children, families and the economy through the pandemic

Families in Britain are struggling. Although the job retention scheme and its scaled down successor, the job support scheme, have and will spare some job losses – without significant further government action next year, unemployment could more than double from pre-Covid-19 levels.

26/10/2020
Publication Briefing Economy Families Coronavirus response IPPR
The decades of disruption: New social risks and the future of the welfare state

The decades of disruption: New social risks and the future of the welfare state

A number of major disruptive forces will transform life in the UK and globally in the 2020s and beyond, creating a new set of social risks. In the Covid-19 crisis, government financial assistance...

25/05/2020
Publication Report Public services New Skills at Work Equality Population and demographics Future Welfare State IPPR
There is an alternative: Ending austerity in the UK

There is an alternative: Ending austerity in the UK

Since 2010/11, successive UK governments have chosen to impose a programme of austerity in an attempt to reduce the budget deficit. This period of austerity is set to be the longest pause in real...

03/07/2019
Publication Report Economy Budget Centre for Economic Justice New Social Risks IPPR
Social (in)security: Reforming the UK’s social safety net

Social (in)security: Reforming the UK’s social safety net

The UK has experienced a decade of austerity. While this has not resulted in a dramatic decrease in public spending in absolute terms, it does represent the longest pause in real-terms spending...

14/11/2019
Publication Report Jobs & skills IPPR New Social Risks

The programme was launched in May 2020 and will publish new research on health, care, skills, social security and community into 2021. It is supported by an expert advisory panel and group of frontline charities.

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