Promoting Equality

How can we build a more equal Wales?

Our work shines a spotlight on the structural inequalities we need to overcome, drawing on a range of expertise and evidence to determine what needs to be done and how to do it.

The pandemic has further highlighted a landscape of inequality in Wales, with certain people – and areas -disproportionately, and often multiply, disadvantaged. Whilst important efforts are underway to address such inequality, this presents a challenge to policy and practice when longstanding structural and systemic factors are at work.  WCPP’s Promoting Equalities programme engages with the different dimensions of inequality through research and evidence – for example, our forthcoming Poverty Review and our published work on race equality – to consider what ‘a more equal Wales’ might actually mean and require.


 

Publications

Our published research on inequality provides vital information for policymakers and researchers.
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Publications 15 August 2024
Tackling poverty-related stigma: policy briefing
The policy briefing summarises the key messages from our initial desk review of existing research looking specifically at the causes of poverty stigma, its impact,...
Publications 14 August 2024
Lifting the lid on poverty stigma in Wales
The first major survey into the scale of poverty stigma in Wales has found that 25% of the Welsh population have experienced poverty stigma ‘always’, ‘often’...
Publications 11 December 2023
WCPP at 10
A look back at some of our achievements over the first decade of WCPP and ahead at our priorities
Publications 9 August 2023
Loneliness Inequalities Evidence Review
Research evidence shows overwhelmingly that loneliness affects some groups in society more than others and is particularly acute for those who face multiple forms of...

 

Projects

Our portfolio of projects creates knowledge and evidence around all aspects of equality in Wales.
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Projects
WCPP ESRC Policy Fellowship – Involving experts-by-experience in knowledge mobilisation
Since November 2023, the ESRC has funded a Policy Fellow to be seconded to the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) to enhance the understanding, capabilities,...
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Increasing access to early childhood education and care (ECEC) among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic children and families in Wales  
The Welsh Government’s Anti-racist Wales Action Plan (ARWAP) identifies the importance of early childhood play, learning and care to child development, lifelong learning and...
Projects
Guidance for schools to support trans young people
The Welsh Government published an LGBTQ+ Action Plan in February 2023, providing a framework for policy development across the Welsh Government and partners to support LGBTQ+...
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Diversity in Recruitment
The Welsh Government has asked the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) to support its work on increasing the proportion of Black, Asian and Minority...

Explore

We have a wealth of content covering all aspects of equality in Wales.

 

Experts

Meet the Promoting Equalities team
Professor Dan Bristow
Director of Policy and Practice
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Amanda Hill-Dixon
Senior Research Fellow
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Greg Notman
Research Officer
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