cost of living crisis research feb 2022

State of the nation 2022: children and young people’s wellbeing

A report on the wellbeing of children and young people over the academic year 2021 to 2022.

The Department for Education (DfE) has published a new State of the nation report looking at the wellbeing of children and young people in England over the academic year 2021/2022. The report sets out previously published data from various sectors. The report finds that during the 2021/22 academic year, while wellbeing on most measures remained consistent, anxiousness among both primary and secondary-aged pupils appears to have increased and is higher than in 2020/21

The tooth hurts: smiles shaped by poverty
Hygiene poverty charity Beauty Banks has teamed up with the British Dental Association (BDA) to understand the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the oral health of students and on the role of teachers in classrooms across Britain. The survey found that one in four UK secondary school teachers surveyed reported that they have given out toothbrushes and toothpaste to their pupils.

Cost of Living crisis social science research January 2023

Poverty 2023 Joesph Rowntree report

How the cost of living crisis is damaging children’s health
BMJ 2023; 380 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o3064 (Published 04 January 2023)

Changes in children’s mental health and parents’ financial stress from March 2020 to October 2022, Co-SPACE study, University of Oxford

State of health visiting, UK survey report: a vital safety net under pressure
This report details the findings from a UK survey of frontline health visitors working with families across the United Kingdom. It finds health visitors reporting epidemic levels of poverty, with more parents struggling with the cost-of-living crisis that is forcing them to turn to food banks to feed their children. 

Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Tackling health inequalities: delivering accessible pharmaceutical care for everyone

This position paper outlines how the cost-of-living crisis is adding to widening health inequalities and aims to help pharmacists and pharmacy teams to take action.

New report highlights urgent need for improved care regarding continued inequality and mothers’ mental health NPEU

State of the North 2023 - Looking out to level up: How the North and the UK measure up

Mental health of children and young people in England 2022: wave 3 follow; up to the 2017 survey. Looks at the mental health of children and young people in England in 2022. NHS Digital, 2022

IMF economic forecasts

Cities outlook 2023

The Rising Cost of Living: A Review of Interventions to Reduce Impacts on Health Inequalities in London Institute of Health Equity

The Child Poverty and the Cost of Living Crisis report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group Child of the North, has found that children in the North are some of the least protected from the current cost of living crisis.

Mental Health Foundation Supporting and expanding green social prescribing to address mental health inequalities in London 

cost of living criss december 2022

Across the Border: Child Poverty in England and Wales National Youth Advocacy Service

social science covid research

  First 1001 Days Movement and the Institute of Health Visiting has been published today – ‘Casting Long Shadows: The ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on babies, their families and the services that support them.’

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?

cost of living crisis sept/ October social science research

 FosterTalk: cost of living report. Looks at how foster carers are managing the cost of living, mental health and wellbeing. Uses data from a survey of 4,439 foster carers in the UK

ONS research impact of cost of living crisis on households June-September 2022

Learning in the Cold:The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Post-16 Education and Skills. Campaign for Learning

.World Mental Health Day: Rising cost of living and mental health insight House of Commons Library

Is poor health driving a rise in economic inactivity? Health Foundation.

The Mayhew Review Future-proofing retirement living Easing the care 

and housing crises

cost of living crisis - social science research august 2022

 CEO Pay survey - High Pay Centre

Fuel Poverty, Cold Homes and Health Inequalities in the UK Institute Health Equity

Cost of living crisis ‘severely’ hitting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, social workers warn- Community Care survey

Unequal access to Early Years support- action for children. This research from Action for Children finds inequalities in access to parenting support services between regions, and between demographic groups, across England.

NHS Confederation Could the energy crisis cause a public health emergency?

Supermarkets mustn’t cut back on basic ranges amid a cost-of-living crisis or a healthy ageing crisis will follow, warns think tank. ILC 

Cost of living crisis pushes parents to the edge. NESTA survey

Freeze on benefit cap will leave poorest households £65 worse off from April as costs spiral | CPAG