Topic: Policy issues
IPPO one year on: what have we learned about how to help policymakers make better-informed decisions?
On the first anniversary of the International Observatory’s launch, we present our latest thinking on the key challenges we must ...
Watch this IPPO-Conversation webinar on the future of adult social care in the UK
The day after the UK Government published its new White Paper on adult social care reform, The Conversation and the ...
We know people’s mental health levels have deteriorated during COVID-19. Now we must find out which responses work at scale
Governments are committing more resources to mental health, yet we don't know which interventions could be scaled up in the ...
Strategies to support social care workers during COVID-19: a global scan of responses to severe staffing challenges
All over the world, COVID-19 has placed huge demands and stresses on social care workers – but what supportive policy ...
The Synthesis Gap: reducing the imbalance between advice and absorption in handling big challenges, from pandemics to net zero
This paper focuses on how governments should synthesise inputs from many disciplines and sources to make decisions. But the issue ...
How can cities tackle youth unemployment in their COVID recovery plans? Ideas and fresh challenges emerging from our roundtable
IPPO's event with Youth Futures Foundation brought together city-level policymakers and youth employment experts from all over the UK to ...
Care home visitor policies: a global scan of the latest strategies in countries with high vaccination rates
This global scan has been carried out by members of the LTCcovid network, and includes detailed case studies from six ...
The burden of informal care on women: how has it increased during COVID-19, and what are the implications for women’s working lives?
Research suggests that women carry out at least three times more unpaid care work than men. How should this be ...
