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Argues the Budget should begin delivering the Prime Minister’s ten‑year energy vision by creating a new policy lever to lower household bills and curb inflation, framing this as essential help for winter energy costs.
Presents new findings that improving household economic security can itself drive productivity growth, positioning economic security as a policy lever for stronger, more resilient economic performance.
Explores how low rates of job‑to‑job moves among economically insecure workers are suppressing UK labour market dynamism and, in turn, holding back productivity growth.
Explains what social infrastructure is, why it matters and how community-facing assets and services can build resilience, foster social ties and support thriving communities — aimed at policymakers and practitioners.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation examines the scale of living standards challenges for Andy Burnham’s area, assessing pressures on low- and middle-income households and options to restore income growth amid the cost of living crisis.
A webinar launching Destitution in the UK 2026, presenting research on destitution and arguing for bold policy responses; scheduled for Thursday 26 November, 2:00–3:30pm.
Finds that introducing rent controls would slow private rent growth and therefore reduce the fiscal cost of uprating Local Housing Allowance to reflect market rents, cutting the bill for restoring the link between LHA and local rents.
Explains what poverty means and how it can be measured, outlining different definitions, indicators and factors that determine poverty rather than offering new empirical findings or policy prescriptions.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation will host a two-day Insight Infrastructure conference (22–23 March 2027) on how people and communities can shape, own and act on evidence about their lives.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds poverty remains too high in Scotland with national targets missed, calls for radical change and a stronger role for local government in both delivering poverty reduction and in its relationship with the Scottish Government.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust have appointed Moira Sinclair as the next Chair of JRF Trustees; she will lead governance across the foundation and its housing and care operations in York and the North East.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation is hosting a webinar on 18 November (12–1pm) to advise communicators on framing discussions about housing and immigration and how public thinking can be navigated.
This JRF summary of Poverty in Scotland 2026 outlines public attitudes to local government, argues for reform of local funding and urges councils to use all available levers to reduce and prevent poverty locally.