Communities

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...

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...

The lack of an anti-poverty strategy did not stop the Welsh Government from taking action during the pandemic to address poverty in Wales. From the...

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...

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, public and third sector organisations supporting community wellbeing have relied on a mixture of remote and face-to-face methods for delivering services...

This commentary report accompanies a rapid review of evidence about how physical infrastructure influences long-term wellbeing, commissioned by the Welsh Government to help inform its...

‘Levelling Up’ - used here to refer to the wider UK Government policy agenda rather than the specific Levelling Up funding stream - is predominantly...