Ippr Scotland

Finance secretary Kate Forbes announced support for jobs and skills totalling around £1.1 billion when she presented the Scottish Budget 2021-22 yesterday. In an effort to prioritise job creation, measures in the Budget included a commitment to launch a new Green Workforce Academy t

Urgent action is needed to help families repair their finances to stay afloat over the coming months in the face of a COVID-19 winter, according to a new report from IPPR Scotland.

IPPR Scotland has called on the next Scottish Government to ensure the country recovers from COVID-19 by rebuilding Scotland on the foundations of social, economic and climate justice.

A total of 300,000 households with dependent children in Scotland (49%) are 'struggling to make ends meet’ or in ‘serious financial difficulty’ during this COVID-19 crisis, according to new analysis from IPPR Scotland.

Up to 750,000 people in Scotland could be enrolled in the Jobs Retention Scheme (furloughed) this quarter and a further 150,000 jobs could be lost as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, according to new analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

Naomi Eisenstadt, former independent advisor on poverty and inequality and trustee of Standard Life Foundation, will today commend the progress made by the Scottish Government on social security but will call on them to do more to put their words into action. Ms Eisenstadt will be joined by Shi

A new report published today has revealed how the Scottish Government's Scottish Child Payment could be improved to better meet the needs of low-income families in Scotland.

The Scottish Government has brought forward a new benefit aimed to tackle child poverty by giving extra cash to low-income families.

The equivalent of a classroom of children will enter poverty in Scotland every day unless benefit changes proposed by the Scottish Government are introduced sooner, a think-tank has warned.

Ruth Davidson The development of new towns, a cabinet level post for the housing minister and the creation of a new housing and infrastructure agency are among a raft of ideas to be announced by Ruth Davidson today as she outlines a fresh focus on housing for the Scottish Conservatives.

The next Scottish Government faces a funding gap of more than £2 billion each year by 2020, with tax rises alone unlikely to eliminate spending and welfare cuts, a think tank has found. A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research Scotland (IPPR Scotland) has analysed how new Scottish

Spending reductions and benefit cuts imposed by the UK government could make Scotland's poorest families more than £800 a year worse, a think-tank has warned. IPPR Scotland said £500 million would be cut from those on benefits by 2020 as a result of decisions made by Chancellor George Osborne - an

One of the UK’s leading progressive think-tanks, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), has appointed its first director in Scotland. Russell Gunson, currently director of NUS Scotland, will lead the new think-tank working on public policy north of the Border, IPPR Scotland.