Highlights

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Blood, Threats and Fears: The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims

Neil Chakraborti (University of Leicester)

The need for improved support for victims of hate crime has become all the more apparent at a time when numbers of incidents have risen to record levels, both within the UK and beyond. This sharp increase – and the assoc...Read more...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

Black women Violence and Abuse: Working at the intersections of race, gender and other oppressions

Dr Ava Kanyeredzi (University of East London)

Black British women are absent or less present in research on violence/abuse. The missing-ness or minimal presence is not only within the field of violence research, but in mental health, maternity care, history and so o...Read more...

CASEpaper

The birthweight effects of universal child benefits in pregnancy: quasi-experimental evidence from England and Wales

Mary Reader

Over a decade ago, in April 2009, the UK Labour government introduced the Health in Pregnancy Grant (HPG), a cash transfer of the equivalent of child benefit over the third trimester (£190) as a lump sum to all pregnant ...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Paper

The Conservative Goverments’ Record on Social Security: Policies, Spending and Outcomes, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

Kerris Cooper and John Hills

This paper uses the Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes framework to evaluate how social security policies evolved, how public spending changed, the effects of these on the generosity of the system, and evidence ...Read more...

SPDO Knowledge Exchange Brief

Ethnic inequalities on the eve of the pandemic

Kerris Cooper

This research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, evaluated the impact of changes in social policies on inequalities since 2015 up until the eve of the pandemic. This briefing focuses on the findings that relate to ethni...Read more...

Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Overview Paper

The Conservative Governments' Record on Social Policy from May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020: Policies, Spending and Outcomes

This overview report provides an assessment of social policy developments under the three Conservative Governments that were in power between May 2015 and the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. The report provid...Read more...

CASEreport

Community Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic: Case Study Report

Ellie Benton and Anne Power

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that followed created a unique set of circumstances: people over 70 and those with underlying health conditions were forced to self-isolate; day to day activities stopped; people be...Read more...