WBG briefings, reports, budget assessments and consultation responses
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This new briefing summarises the latest evidence on the effectiveness of the Women’s Centre Model in community-based alternatives to prisons.
We have responded to Work and Pension Committee inquiry on reforming Job Centres
We have responded to a consultation on Adult Social Care Reform: the Cost of Inaction
This briefing examines a human rights approach to social security for women in the UK and is in collaboration with Amnesty International UK.
We have written to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster about the independent review of the data collected and published by the ONS
WBG’s Submission to APPG on Poverty and Inequality Inquiry into the Disproportionate Impact of Poverty and Inequality on Disabled People
WBG’s alternative feminist response to a changing world
Together with other women's organisations, we've written to the Chancellor to express concerns about cuts to disability benefits
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A briefing on reforming our social care system and reducing gender inequalities
We support an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to mitigate the strategic risks posed by wealth inequality to our country
The Employment Rights Bill and the impact on women's working lives
We have responded to the Autumn Budget 2024 / Spending Review - Stakeholder Representations
Our new report sheds light on the impact of 14 years of austerity on women
The Women's Budget Group's recommendations for a gender-sensitive Government
WBG supports an open letter calling on the Chancellor to urgently review the change to the Winter Fuel Payment for older people
These webinars demonstrate practical strategies for advocacy, influencing, and communication in GRB
WBG has signed an open letter to call upon the new Government to prioritise women’s reproductive healthcare
We have responded to the Green Paper on the future of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which replaced the Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
See the Royal Commission on Long Term Care recommendation that assessments for care should be ‘carer blind’ (1999).
Devereux, E. (2 May 2024) Concern over 83% decline health and social care visa applications. Nursing Times.
Comptroller and Auditor General (2021) The Adult Social Care Market in England, NAO HC1244, 2019-21, p36, paragraph 2.18.
WBG (2024) Local government and gender: Briefing for a new government
The Health Foundation (1 May 2024) What do worsening health inequalities mean for the NHS?
Carers UK (2023) Higher proportion of unpaid carers in the most deprived areas of England and Wales (press release)
HM Treasury (2014) Country fiche on pensions.
ONS (13 February 2023) Unpaid care by age, sex and deprivation. England and Wales: Census 2021
Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (2022) COVID 19 and Occupational impacts CP740.
M. Petrillo and M. Bennett (2023) Valuing Carers: England and Wales 2021, p14. Carers UK and Centre for Care.
J. Elgot (2024) Reeves to appoint Covid corruption tsar to claw back billions of waste. The Guardian.
A. Harrop (2023) A national care service for all. Fabian Society.
Women’s Budget Group and New Economics Foundation (2022) Universal Quality Social Care: Transforming adult social care in England
ONS (2024) People in employment on zero-hours contracts
WBG calculations = 555,000 women on zero-hours contracts Apr-June 2024 + 910,000 women who currently earn less than £123 a week according to TUC in January 2024 (70% of 1.3 million.) https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/women-more-twice-likely-men-miss-out-statutory-sick-pay
CLES and WBG (2023) New research: prioritising gender inclusion in economic strategies
The National Minimum Wage is currently paid to under 21-year-olds whereas the National Living Wage is paid to those over 21 years old. However, the new government plans to remove these age bands so that there is one National Minimum Wage for all workers.
ONS (2024) Consumer price inflation, UK: August 2024
ONS (2024) Private Rent and House Prices UK: April 2024
Early Education and Childcare Coalition (2024) Rescue and Reform: A Manifesto to Transform Early Education and Childcare in England
WBG and Wen (2022) A green and caring economy.
Health matters: reproductive health and pregnancy planning – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk); Women from poorer backgrounds three times more likely to have abortions (The Guardian)
Office for National Statistics release England and Wales conception data for under-18s; Q1-Q2-2024 | FSRH
Abortion statistics for England and Wales: January to June 2022 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Cervical Screening Programme – Coverage Statistics (NHS)
Reducing women’s health inequalities in the most-deprived areas (The King’s Fund)
Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care: Lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2019–21 (MBRACE UK)
Extending Public Health England’s contraception return on investment tool: Maternity and primary care settings (PHE)