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Family Finances: what difference does cash support for children make?

This project, funded by the Aberdeen Financial Fairness Trust, will explore the impact on household financial well-being, aiming to inform future policy and decision-making.Read more...
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Tackling London's problem debt

This project aims to provide the academic expertise they need to enhance the evidence base on which they are basing their services, which will in turn contribute to addressing the key regional economic priority of reducing problem debt. Read more...

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There's a problem with how we measure fuel poverty

In this LSE Politics and Policy blog post, Abigail McKnight argues that we need a better way of measuring fuel poverty if we are to tackle it. Read more...
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CASE Poverty Review influencing Child Poverty Taskforce

Baroness Sherlock (Labour MP) outlined plans for the Child Poverty Taskforce to review its metrics in light of CASE's research on the UK material deprivation measures. Read more...

Annual Report 2023

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The social and economic value of wheelchair user homes

Laura Lane and Bert Provan present research into the social and economic value of homes that are appropriately adapted to meet the needs of wheelchair users ("wheelchair user homes"). Read more...
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The Children's Information Project

Polly Vizard discusses the Children's Information Project (CIP), a strategic research programme that aims at co-designing and delivering a series of innovations in the use of children's information, data and voice in policy and practice. Read more...

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CASE Special Events
Insecure Lives – Exploring Multiple Insecurities

This is a CASE Special Event to launch the findings of the Insecure Lives study with a panel discussion.... Read more...

Various speakers

Thursday 27 March 2025 17:30 - 19:00
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Living a Differentiated Childhood: Children and families’ experiences of poverty and material deprivation within the UK’s Asylum Support system

Asylum-seekers are excluded from employment and social security while their claim is determined, instead reliant on subsistence payments and accommodation provided through Asylum Support – a system characterised as ‘enfo... Read more...

Ilona Pinter (CASE/University of York)

Wednesday 26 March 2025 12:00 - 13:00
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
The effect of Sure Start on education, crime and contacts with children's social care

The first few years of life are crucial for physical, social, emotional and cognitive development. In the past, integrated early years interventions have been shown to have significant human capital benefits for children... Read more...

Nick Ridpath (IFS)

Wednesday 12 March 2025 12:00 - 13:00
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Children missing from education: Estimates, trends over time, and characteristics

This research investigates the prevalence of children missing from education in England. Using a novel methodology comparing GP and school registrations, the researchers estimate that up to 400,000 children were not in s... Read more...

Whitney Crenna-Jennings (Education Policy Institute)

Wednesday 05 March 2025 12:00 - 13:00
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Towards socially inclusive environmental policy: concepts, insights and challenges

The transition to Net Zero marks a radical reshaping of many aspects of everyday life. It also has the potential to influence positively several social challenges: improving public health, reducing the effects of poverty... Read more...

Lucie Middlemiss (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 04 December 2024 12:00 - 13:00

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CASEreport
The Co-operation in Social Housing Commission: Report One - Learning from Experience

Ellie Benton and LSE Housing and Communities

The Co-operation in Social Housing Commission aims to explore ways of increasing co-operation and power sharing between social housing residents and landlords, and what happens when residents and social housing providers...Read more...

Thursday 06 March 2025

CASEreport
Mitigating the Impacts of Overcrowding in the London Borough of Newham

Laura Lane and Bert Provan

Between 2022 and 2024, LSE Housing and Communities conducted research into overcrowding in the London Borough of Newham, and how the harms of overcrowding can be mitigated. This final report brings together data analysis...Read more...

Thursday 27 February 2025

CASEpaper
Unseen Children: The hidden lives of children in families seeking asylum in the UK

Ilona Pinter

Children seeking asylum with their families in the UK face significant challenges and marginalisation, yet they are rarely acknowledged in public and policy discourses and in publicly available data. This working paper s...Read more...

Wednesday 11 December 2024

CASEreport
Mapping Under-Occupation in London

Ellie Benton

This research aims to act as a preliminary piece of work that sets out an up-to-date picture of under-occupation in London, identifying which geographic areas, tenures, household types and ethnic groups are most likely t...Read more...

Thursday 31 October 2024

CASEpaper
A decade on: Walking the sharp edge of the UK’s social security system

Amanda Light and Ruth Patrick

The UK’s social security landscape and public services infrastructure have been transformed since the Conservatives took office in 2010, initially as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The collision of auste...Read more...

Friday 25 October 2024

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CASE News
LSE Housing and Communities Book Launch

Beyond Bricks and Mortar: Building homes, communities, and neighbourhoods by Anne Power  On 2nd April 2025, CASE and LSE Housing and Communities hosted the launch of Anne Power’s latest book, Beyond Bric... Read more...

Thursday 10 April 2025

CASE News
The challenge of ethnic wealth inequalities: Building understanding: Briefing paper and soundscape

As part of the British Academy-funded project “The challenge of ethnic wealth inequalities: Building understanding” Eleni Karagiannaki in partnership with the Equality Trust has been engaging with people from... Read more...

Wednesday 09 April 2025

CASE News
Tania Burchardt to speak in Wealth Gap event

Can we end the wealth gap?2nd April 2025 - 4:00 – 5:30pm Online The Fairness Foundation, a think tank that works to persuade politicians that tackling inequality in the UK should be a policy, political and moral p... Read more...

Monday 17 March 2025

CASE News
There’s a problem with how we measure fuel poverty, by Abigail McKnight

A new post on the LSE Politics and Policy blog about how we measure fuel poverty.  Numerous households live in homes that are too cold for their physical and mental health and well-being. But the way we measure fue... Read more...

Tuesday 25 February 2025

CASE News
CASE Poverty Review influencing Child Poverty Taskforce

CASE's recent review of the material deprivation survey questions used to measure child poverty, commissioned by the Department of Work and Pensions, was mentioned by Baroness Sherlock (Lab), who outlined plans for the C... Read more...

Monday 27 January 2025

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