Policy briefings

Looking at the challenges and possibilities for refugees’ access to higher education

Should state policy focus instead on taking adequate action on the issue of climate and environmental change?

Working with organisations to keep health and safety routines up to date

A call for policy reform that is inclusive, equitable and evidence-based

Recommendations for policy reform

Implementing the ‘Liberty Protection Safeguards’ is an urgent priority

Awareness and action needed on chemical control

Awareness-raising of the service and its benefits is needed to aid prevention in adult social care.

‘Substituted parenting’ in the family courts: “too much” support for parents with learning disabilities considered harmful for children.

Women refugees disproportionately impacted by narrow definitions of ‘torture’

Mental Capacity, Self-Neglect, and Adult Safeguarding Practices: Evidence Synthesis and Agenda for Change

Urgent reforms are needed for prison healthcare services after a decade of austerity

After a decade of austerity, urgent changes are needed to improve prison services

Online information and advice to carers during the Covid-19 pandemic

COVID-19: Local coordination delivered emergency food, but food plans must address food insecurity

We can’t prevent childhood obesity by education alone: lessons from the evidence base

Professional understandings of child neglect in Namibia

Children in informal care arrangements with extended family: messages for best practice in Namibia

Exploring hidden narratives in the West African Tramadol trade and transport of migrants

Children in Need and Children in Care: Educational Attainment and Progress

Mayoral governance in Bristol: Has it made a difference?

National and local policies still need strengthening: findings from the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review

The importance of being Dad: services working with families should recognise and support all fathers, including those with learning difficulties

Rewarding food businesses that promote healthier and sustainable eating: Lessons learned from the Bristol Eating Better Award evaluation

Addressing older men’s experiences of loneliness and social isolation in later life

Economic and social well-being in the UK: how living standards should be measured

Ensuring trans people in Wales receive dignified and inclusive health and social care in later life: The Trans Ageing and Care (TrAC) project, 2016-18

Reimagining refugee rights: addressing asylum harms in Britain, Denmark and Sweden

“Stigmatising” and “traumatising” approaches to FGM-safeguarding need urgent review