Support the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)

LSE is privileged to enjoy the generous support of alumni and friends who choose to express their support for CASE through philanthropy. Every gift you make, no matter the size, is a demonstration of faith in our Centre and an investment in the School's future as a world leading social sciences institution. Thank you.

How your support benefits CASE today

Our research aims to improve the lives of the least advantaged through providing high quality research evidence which can be used to reduce poverty and inform effective policy making. We do this through:

• Identifying the main causes of poverty and who is most at risk
• Working with policy makers and grassroots organisation to reduce poverty risks
• Evaluating what works

A gift to our Centre will empower us to invest in the areas of greatest need and promote initiatives that require flexible or additional funding.

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Discuss your philanthropy

We can also help to match your generous philanthropy with longer-term priorities that enhance our Centre. We would welcome the opportunity to talk to you about how you can help our Centre to continue to work towards its strategic priorities. We can work with you to build on your relationship with LSE and discuss how your philanthropic and personal interests can be fulfilled through giving opportunities that are meaningful to you. We also work with trusts, foundations and corporates to develop mutually-beneficial partnerships.

To discuss philanthropic opportunities, please contact shapingtheworld@lse.ac.uk

Thank you for your time and commitment to our Centre. We are very grateful for your support.

Centre Director

Abigail McKnight

Research highlights

If you would like to have a look at what you we have been doing last year, please see below.

CASE notes:10 insights from 2023

Irene Bucelli presents the ten key themes of our research during 2023, including housing challenges, deep poverty, and taxing wealth.
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How can we tackle youth homelessness?

New LSE research found that young people feel ignored and dismissed when approaching local authorities for help. Ruby Russell of LSE Housing explains what needs to change.
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Two-child limit policy: keep it or scrap it?

First introduced in 2017, the UK's two-child limit policy restricts parents from claiming child tax credits or Universal Credit for more than two children. Professor Kitty Stewart evaluates its effects on child poverty among larger families, and the impact of removing it.
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Solving the housing crisis without building new houses

There is a cross-party consensus that the way to tackle the housing crisis is to build more homes. But this approach isn't working, and does little to address inequality and the environmental impacts of construction. Instead, governments should be pursuing innovative policies that make efficient use of the existing housing stock, of which there is plenty, argue Charlotte Rogers and Ian Gough.
Read their LSE Blog...

How can we improve services for young homeless people?

Youth homelessness in London is soaring, with huge pressures on local authorities, a lack of housing stock and lack of joined-up support all exacerbating the problem. Laura Lane sets out some recommendations to address what has been called a "national scandal".
Read Laura's piece for LSE Research for the World magazine...

Young people taking longer to leave home and find work and a partner

Over the last two decades, the transition to adulthood has undergone significant change in many industrialised countries. The change is characterised by a general delay in the occurrence of major life events that mark the transition to adulthood. Eleni Karagiannaki investigated how transition to adulthood trajectories have changed for successive cohorts of children in the UK.
Read Eleni's post on the Understanding Society blog...

Making child benefits more universal is a good idea, badly timed

Because of the current threshold of the Child Benefit, only 50 per cent of families would receive financial support for their children by the year 2040. The Conservatives have proposed a move towards a more universal approach, and while there are very good reasons to support universalism in the child benefit system, it's the wrong response to today's priorities in tackling child poverty, argues Kitty Stewart.
Read Kitty's post for LSE Blogs...

Ending child poverty is urgent, and it is possible

This article, by Jane Millar and Kitty Stewart, is part of a blog series published in partnership with Academics Stand Against Poverty UK, as they develop their third manifesto audit in the build up to the 2024 election. They will analyse the policies in the manifestos in relation to poverty to assess how confident they are that they will enable British society to flourish.
Read their article for Transforming Society's blog series...

The lessons from the Grenfell Inquiry that we already knew

Anne Power reflects on the publication of the Grenfell Inquiry, and highlights that one of the critical lessons learned, namely that multi-storey estates need hands-on, ground level management, with locally-based staff, was already being argued for before the tragedy ever happened.
Read Anne's LSE Blog...