Communities

The cost-of-living crisis is making access to community-based wellbeing services ever more important for an increasing number of people. These services – from advice, advocacy and...

On 7 June, the Welsh Government launched its new Action Plan to forge An Anti-Racist Wales by 2030. The work will involve identifying and eradicating the systems,...

Enabling ‘pathways’ out of poverty must be a fundamental goal of any anti-poverty strategy. But how should such a strategy seek to achieve this? And...

Several of the challenges faced by people living in poverty or social exclusion in Wales relate to where they live. Local costs of living, affordability...

For decades, poverty has been measured by a household’s income relative to that of others. Although adjustments are made for housing costs and household...

Cost-of-living crisis is deepening long-standing challenges

During the initial months of the pandemic, when various protections were in place – such as the £20 per week uplift to Universal Credit – the number of...

The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) have prepared two reports on poverty and social exclusion in Wales as part of our work to deliver...