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The Paralympics, in addition to being a celebration of disabled sporting prowess, was supposed to be the biggest showcase for disabled arts and culture ever...

There is an ongoing and heated debate in the UK about the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for economic recovery, and the willingness...

In 2013, Demos marked its twentieth anniversary as Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. Anniversaries are useful opportunities to take stock and look for patterns of meaning in...

Death comes to us all, but this truism doesn’t make it any easier to talk about. In health and social care, the understandable sensitivity around...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the contributory principle in welfare. Polling has signalled a sea change in public attitudes, with many disillusioned...

This report takes aim at the target-driven accountability in the English education system: principally, the Ofsted inspection regime, tests and school league tables. For the...

New social and political movements from radically different political positions are emerging across Europe using social media, posing a new challenge to existing political parties...

This paper is the second in a series investigating how we can promote financial security and wellbeing at a time of declining living standards and...

The principle of ‘early intervention’ – that it is more effective to intervene to prevent a social problem, than to react once a problem becomes...

Poverty is not just about income. Poverty as a lived experience is a complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon spanning one’s social and economic life – but we...