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Investing in Care and Social Infrastructure
WBG’s Consultation Response to the Industrial Strategy White Paper
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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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WBG response to the Autumn Budget 2024
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Investing in Care and Social Infrastructure
WBG’s Consultation Response to the Industrial Strategy White Paper
Consultation Response
Healthy Start Eligibility consultation response
We have responded to the Department for Health and Social Care consultation
Research Briefing
Making care visible and valued
A briefing on reforming our social care system and reducing gender inequalities
Report
Where do we go from here? An intersectional analysis of women's living standards since 2010
Our new report sheds light on the impact of 14 years of austerity on women
Open Letter
Winter Fuel Payment Open Letter
WBG supports an open letter calling on the Chancellor to urgently review the change to the Winter Fuel Payment for older people
Open Letter
Improve women's reproductive healthcare
WBG has signed an open letter to call upon the new Government to prioritise women’s reproductive healthcare
Consultation Response
WBG Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Consultation Response
We have responded to the Green Paper on the future of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which replaced the Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
Open Letter
Fair, Green Pensions for All
WBG is happy to support this open letter calling for decent pensions for all, and sustainable thriving economy
UK Policy Briefing
Social care and gender: Briefing for a new government
This briefing covers the crisis in social care and the urgent reforms needed now.
UK Policy Briefing
Funding for violence against women and girls services: Briefing for a new government
This briefing covers funding for specialist services for victim/survivors of violence against women and girls.
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See the Royal Commission on Long Term Care recommendation that assessments for care should be ‘carer blind’ (1999).
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Devereux, E. (2 May 2024) Concern over 83% decline health and social care visa applications. Nursing Times.
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Comptroller and Auditor General (2021) The Adult Social Care Market in England, NAO HC1244, 2019-21, p36, paragraph 2.18.
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WBG (2024) Local government and gender: Briefing for a new government
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The Health Foundation (1 May 2024) What do worsening health inequalities mean for the NHS?
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Carers UK (2023) Higher proportion of unpaid carers in the most deprived areas of England and Wales (press release)
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HM Treasury (2014) Country fiche on pensions.
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ONS (13 February 2023) Unpaid care by age, sex and deprivation. England and Wales: Census 2021
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Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (2022) COVID 19 and Occupational impacts CP740.
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M. Petrillo and M. Bennett (2023) Valuing Carers: England and Wales 2021, p14. Carers UK and Centre for Care.
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J. Elgot (2024) Reeves to appoint Covid corruption tsar to claw back billions of waste. The Guardian.
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A. Harrop (2023) A national care service for all. Fabian Society.
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Women’s Budget Group and New Economics Foundation (2022) Universal Quality Social Care: Transforming adult social care in England
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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)
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Office for National Statistics release England and Wales conception data for under-18s; Q1-Q2-2024 | FSRH
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Abortion statistics for England and Wales: January to June 2022 – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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Cervical Screening Programme – Coverage Statistics (NHS)
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Reducing women’s health inequalities in the most-deprived areas (The King’s Fund)
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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)
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Extending Public Health England’s contraception return on investment tool: Maternity and primary care settings (PHE)
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Common Wealth, “Undefined Benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System”, 2023. Available here.
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Make My Money Matter, “Fossil Fuels in UK Pensions: An analysis of Fossil Fuel exposure in UK Pension Funds”, 2023. Available here.
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Brett Christophers, “The dangers of asset managers when it comes to long-term infrastructure”, The Financial Times, 17/04/23. Available here. For more extensive detail see Christophers, Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own The World, Verso: 2023.