Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Summary of Reports and Statistics from the Week ending 6 March 2015
JRF Activity
Publication Redistribution of Social and Societal Risk
Publication - Could a 'citizen's income' work?
Blog from Chris Goulden - The debate on citizens income needs to go wider
Publication - JRFs 2015 Budget Representation to HM Treasury
Blog from Helen Barnard - Reducing tuition fees sounds progressive but is it a bad use of
3 billion?
programmes and a review of how Ofsted grades training providers who run programmes for
hard-to-reach groups with lower attainment levels.
A new report from a coalition of UK churches finds that benefit sanctions are often not
proportionate to the issue that has occurred and estimates that 100,000 children were
affected by benefit sanctions in 2013/14. The report calls for a full review of not only the
impact, but the efficacy of sanctions. Time to Rethink Benefit Sanctions.
Apprenticeships are still regarded as a second-best option for school leavers in the UK,
concludes the final report of the Commission on Apprenticeships. The report recommends
creating better incentives for schools to promote apprenticeships, measures to reassure
employers about the value and security of their investment in an apprentice and measures to
drive up the quality of off-the-job training.
The Policy Exchange has launched a manifesto for education. Proposals include City
Regions and the government working together to create incentives to attract teachers such
as discounted housing and childcare; and a new publicly funded retraining scheme for adults
to become qualified in strategically important sectors such as aerospace and advanced
manufacturing.
Achieving 5 A* to C GCSE grades including maths and English can add 80,000 to a
persons earnings over their lifetime, rising to 140,000 if they also achieve at least 2 A
levels, according to research done for the Department for Education.
A new report analyses who has been referred to the West Cheshire foodbank (Trussell Trust
network) and why, during seven months of 2014. 47% of people were referred due to benefit
delays, changes or sanctions, 20% because of low, insecure income, and 11% due to debt
relating to housing costs, bills and loans. In the seven months, 1171 referrals were made
which represents 3026 people. 65% of referrals were for single adults, 14% single parents
and 12% two parent households.