The full Government response to the final report of the independent CAMHS review, setting out progress to date and plans for the future of children and young people's mental...
What is the impact of devolution for people and places in poverty?
For the tenth anniversary of devolution, this Round-up and a series of reports explored trends in social...
The Health Minister has welcomed the publication of the two year report from the Northern Ireland Registry of Deliberate Self-Harm.
This report presents data from January 2007 until...
Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways – most obviously in the gap between those who are...
A consultation has begun on the provision of supported housing in the greater Shankill area which will allow older people in the area to make choices about the way they live. It means the closure...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s recurrent poverty research programme examined the extent and causes of cycles of poverty. These causes stem from the circumstances of the...
This study explores the reasons behind the low-pay/no-pay cycle and recurrent poverty among parents, drawing mainly on qualitative interviews with disadvantaged parents across Scotland and focus...
In 2005–07 healthy life expectancy (HLE) for males at birth, based on the definition of general health used in previous releases, was highest in England (68.7 years) and lowest in Wales and...
Talk to your child about alcohol before someone else does
That’s the message going out to parents via a multi-agency campaign highlighting the importance of talking to your children...
In total 24,900 live births were registered in Northern Ireland in 2009, marginally less (3%) than the number of births registered in 2008. This fall in birth registrations halts a...