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Our response to the consultation on the Application of Zero Hours Contracts Measures to Agency Workers
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Consultation Response
Investing in Care and Social Infrastructure
WBG’s Consultation Response to the Industrial Strategy White Paper
Consultation Response
Submission to the Department for Work and Pensions
Our response to the Statutory Sick pay consultation
Open Letter
The Equal Pay Alliance Open Letter
We support an open letter to demand action to address labour market inequality
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Northern Ireland Women’s Budget Group Statement on the Autumn Budget
NI WBG Autumn Budget Analysis
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The Scottish Women’s Budget Group Autumn Budget Analysis
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Wales Women’s Budget Group Autumn Budget Analysis
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WBG response to the Autumn Budget 2024
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UK Policy Briefing
Early Education and Childcare in the UK and Beyond: Key Challenges and Lessons
Briefings exploring key challenges facing the UK’s early education and childcare system, lessons from international examples and a summary of both
Report
The Census and Feminism: How Census 2021 Data Benefits Feminist Analysis and Activism
A joint report by the Women's Budget Group and the Global Institute for Women's Leadership
UK Policy Briefing
A feminist approach to macroeconomics
This briefing sets out the principles of feminist approaches to macroeconomics
Open Letter
Government “must go further” on flexible working rights
The WBG signed a joint statement put forward by the Trades Union Congress on the Employment Relations Bill.
Open Letter
Together Against Charging: Trade Union and Migrant Org Statement
UNIONS & MIGRANT ORGANISATIONS’ STATEMENT – PUBLIC SECTOR PAY RISE
UK Policy Briefing
The two-child limit to means tested benefits
Briefing on the two-child limit from the Women’s Budget Group
Report
Gender Gaps in Access to Civil Legal Justice
A survey of support services in England and Wales.
Open Letter
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch: Reconsider Announcements on Parental Leave
The WBG has signed a letter by the Fatherhood Institute calling on Kemi Badenoch to improve the UK’s statutory paternity and parental leave system.
Open Letter
Joint statement on ‘The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses?’
The WBG has signed Positive Money’s joint statement calling for a genuinely inclusive national conversation on the future of money.
Toolkit
How to use Census 2021 data
These resources show how to use census data effectively
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Coram Family and Childcare (2023) Childcare survey 2023
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Social Mobility Commission (2020) The stability of the early years workforce in England
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Centre for Progressive Policy (2023) Growing pains. The economic costs of a failing childcare system
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Jérôme de Henau (2022). Simulating employment and fiscal effects of public investment in high-quality universal childcare in the UK. International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 16(1), article no. 3
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D Hirsch for CPAG (March 2023), the cost of child poverty in 2023, available at https://cpag.org.uk/policy-and-campaigns/briefing/cost-child-poverty-2023
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TUC briefing (May 2022) available at https://www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/only-good-well-paid-work-route-out-poverty
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F Hobson for the House of Commons Library (April 2022) The impact of the two-child limit in Universal Credit, available at https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9301/
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WBG response to funding uplift (May 2023) available at https://wbg.org.uk/media/press-releases/wbg-welcomes-funding-boost-for-childcare-in-universal-credit-but-it-remains-insufficient-to-meet-actual-cost-of-childcare-today/
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WBG with Surviving Economic Abuse and the End Violence Against Women Coalition (June 2019) Benefits or Barriers, available at https://wbg.org.uk/analysis/benefits-or-barriers-making-social-security-work-for-survivors-of-violence-and-abuse-across-the-uks-four-nations/
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WBG and Runnymede Trust (2017) Intersecting Inequalities: The impact of austerity in Black and Minority Ethnic women in the UK
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WBG (September 2022) The Cost Crisis: a Gendered Analysis
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WBG (2023) Spring Budget 2023: Social security and gender
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The UK gender pay gap was 14.9% in December 2022; the EU average was 12.7% in 2021. Sources: Office for NaIonal StaIsIcs, 2022 and EU Monitor, 2023 (see References below)