Policy News Edition 10: June 2009 - July 2009
Policy news from think tanks, the 3rd sector and Whitehall
Edited by Claire Leigh 

Policy News appears every two months and brings together policy news from think tanks, third sector organisations and Whitehall departments, including an outline of the best in recent policy publications. You can read the reports in full online by following the web address listed at the end of each summary.

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Welcome to the tenth edition of Policy News. In this issue we highlight recent publications that will help Young Fabians get to grips with the headline-grabbing events of the past few months.

June and July saw the Government presses go into overdrive as a stream of weighty policy documents was released. This included a major report on the future of social care, the final conclusions of Milburn’s ‘Panel on Fair Access to the Professions’, and ‘Building Britain’s Future’, the Government’s much-anticipated roadmap for the next five years.

Around the themes of social care and social inequality, various think tanks have added their own contributions. Particularly interesting are new analyses of public attitudes to these two challenges by the IPPR/PwC and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation/Fabian Society respectively. The Women & Work Commission has also released a follow-up to its seminal report on gender inequality at work, ‘Shaping a fairer future’, three years after it was published.

Finally, some good reports are starting to appear on what Austerity Britain could mean for core public services, as well as what the recession heralds for the youth voluntary sector and youth employment in the next few years. It all makes for sobering reading.

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