The pandemic has temporarily reset our relationship with nature. Under lockdown, our air is cleaner, and we’ve been able to hear birdsong instead of traffic.
At the same time, we’ve been...
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Environment
IPPR North
When the coronavirus crisis first hit the UK, the greatest fear was that it would overwhelm the NHS. Ministers and clinicians had seen the catastrophic impact overseas – in first-rate health care...
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Better Health and Care
IPPR
The Covid-19 crisis is like nothing we’ve seen for over 100 years. What started as a health crisis has now turned into an economic crisis. This blog is part of a series of outputs through our...
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Families
Scotland
IPPR Scotland
We know the health, social and economic crisis will affect us all, but we also know it won’t affect us all equally. This blog marks the start of a series of outputs through our Rethinking Social Security in Scotland programme, as we attempt to look at what Covid-19 means for financial security in Scotland.
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Scotland
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IPPR Scotland
This article was first published in The Herald on Tuesday 28th April 2020
The 8pm the ‘clap for carers’ has become a highlight in my house in these dark coronavirus dominated days. The...
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IPPR Scotland
Social care is integral to our Covid-19 response. It is responsible for protecting and providing for some of the most vulnerable in our society. It is absolutely central to the government’s shielding...
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Public services
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Better Health and Care
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Businesses across the UK face significant challenges with cashflow, as they struggle to weather the Covid-19 lockdown. British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) polling of more than 1,000 businesses, cond...
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The aviation industry faces mass bankruptcies due to the coronavirus crisis. If the government decides to proceed with a bailout for the industry, it should heed the lessons of past bailouts. Any...
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Environment
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IPPR
In this short briefing, we set out the economic risks for migrant workers posed by the current Coronavirus crisis and propose a number of urgent measures in response, in order to provide a social...
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IPPR
Rishi Sunak faces one of the most difficult budgets in living memory. The country faces its lowest economic growth rate in a decade, further exacerbated by the expected disruption caused by the...
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