Events

Fairness Commissions

Understanding how local authorities can have an impact on inequality and poverty

Fairwork Partner

Together for fair platform work

Faiza Shaheen

Falling through the cracks

New NEF analysis shows the social security system is at breaking point this winter, with millions more people struggling for a decent standard of living.

Families across the country are feeling the squeeze

Graduates, nurses, and minimum wage workers are making sacrifices on essentials like the weekly shop or replacing clothes and shoes in London, the red, and blue walls

Families will be over £3000 out of pocket by April 2023 without further govt intervention

Package to support 80% of families through a new free energy entitlement, universal payment & UC energy allowance worth more than double current government support and less than half the cost of continuing to freeze the price cap

Farming after Brexit: Fraught with danger

A new agricultural settlement post-Brexit must support small farmers and build vibrant local economies.

FCA failing poorer households over credit card debt

New report shows FCA are failing to adequately protect consumers from high interest costs on credit cards and calls for a cap on the total cost of charges that borrowers pay

FCA should go further and impose cap on overdraft fees to stop banks profiting from people's misery

Feather-bedding Financial Services

Are British banks getting hidden subsidies?

Fergal O'Dwyer

Fernanda Balata

FFS? Fossil fuels support in the UK tax system

Phasing out support for fossil fuels

Fighting the climate crisis in Croydon

The Croydon Climate Crisis Commission will work to make the borough carbon neutral while lifting living standards.

Filling the Jobs Gap

Why enterprise-based regeneration is not working

Financial support for self-isolating people

Miatta Fahnbulleh spoke to Shelagh Fogarty on LBC

Financial system impact of disruptive innovation

Working paper for the United Nations Environment Programme inquiry

Financial System Resilience Index

Our Financial System Resilience Index, based on insights from complexity science, reveals that the UK’s resilience declined dramatically in the 2000s to levels far below those of other leading industrial economies. Despite some marginal improvements since the crisis of 2008, without major structural changes our financial system remains at risk of future crisis.