England’s Widening Health Gap: Local Places Falling Behind

IHE’s new report, ‘England’s Widening Health Gap: Local Places Falling Behind’, confirms widening inequalities in [...]

Are mental health wards discharging patients too quickly?

Ineffective discharge from mental health settings can lead to higher levels of patient readmission – [...]

No way out: Why families struggle to escape the benefit cap

Drawing on four rounds of interviews with parents affected by the benefit cap, this briefing [...]

Older people at risk of being forced into residential care due to massive delays in making adaptations to homes

Older people at risk of being forced into residential care due to massive delays in [...]

VALUED: Breaking the link between paid and unpaid care, poverty and inequalities across Britain

This briefing paper shows how the undervaluation of paid and unpaid care drives poverty and [...]

What is happening to life expectancy in England?

There have been two turning points in trends in life expectancy in England this century. [...]

In work. But still in debt. Charting the rise of clients in full time work

Many people across the UK in full-time employment still face problem debt and their employment [...]

In credit? Assessing where Universal Credit’s long roll-out has left the benefit system and the country

With neither of the main parties wanting to scrap Universal Credit, whoever wins the election [...]

How might the two-child limit policy be affecting children’s learning?

In 2017, the UK implemented the two-child limit (2CL) policy. Under this policy, families are [...]

WHEN I’M 64: A STRATEGY TO TACKLE POVERTY BEFORE STATE PENSION AGE

People usually associate the years before state pension age with affluence, not poverty. But the [...]