cost of living crisis and societal impact - November reports

ADCS Safeguarding Pressures - Special Thematic Report on Mental Health
DCS has used data included in the ADCS Safeguarding Pressures Phase 8 research to develop a supplementary thematic report on children’s mental health. It draws together returns from 125 local authorities, 21 interviews with directors or assistant directors of children’s services and supplements this with existing data to provide further evidence of a crisis in children’s mental health. The report adds to the growing body of evidence highlighting a children’s mental health system in need of urgent attention, investment and change

A Public Health Evidence briefing Warmer Housing: what are the choices?  University of Sheffield.

Challenging the mental health crisis: how Universal Basic Income can address youth anxiety and depression  RSA Report

NHS Confederation. Why preventing food insecurity will support the NHS and save lives 

NHS Foundation. Public health grant What it is and why greater investment is needed

Childhood obesity: is where you live important? Nuffield Trust

who is at most risk of fuel poverty? Open data Institute.

Children, violence and vulnerability 2022 - Youth Endowment Fund

Cost of living  Children’s Commissioner for Wales

Local Government Association (LGA)

Breaking point: securing the future of sexual health services 

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Anxiety nation? Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain

Open Data Institute

Fuel poverty and data infrastructure: report and fuel poverty risk index

Commission on Young Lives

Hidden in plain sight

The final report from the Commission on Young Lives proposes a new Sure Start Plus for Teenagers network of intervention and support as the centrepiece of a wide range of recommendations to government, the police, schools, and others to tackle the deep-rooted problems in the children's social care, education, family support, children's mental health, and criminal justice systems.

Nuffield Trust 

Review of the Mayor of London’s Health Inequalities Test

 the first of six 'tests' expected to be met when considering major health care reconfigurations in the capital. This analysis reviews recent evidence of health care inequalities in the NHS in England and highlights ways the tests can acknowledge a changing understanding of the way inequalities arise within the NHS and health care more widely following the pandemic.

Age UK

Why can’t I get care?