The Health Foundation: What should nanny do next? The government and obesity

Listen to Episode 2 of the Health Foundation podcast, featuring Professor Harry Rutter, on what the government should be doing to tackle obesity.
Find out what's going on in the Centre for the Analysis of Public Policy.
Listen to Episode 2 of the Health Foundation podcast, featuring Professor Harry Rutter, on what the government should be doing to tackle obesity.
Research from criminology Professor Yvonne Jewkes focusing on the impact of prison design for female offenders, takes this year’s prestigious ESRC competition.
European Research Council Project, NEWFAMSTRAT, by Professor Lynn Prince Cooke aims to identify the remaining obstacles to gender equality.
A report on the normalisation of housing insecurity among children in low income households in England.
Building on recent research, academics from Bath and Oxford are teaming up with comedians with Tourtette's to challenge the stereotypes and stigma that exist.
Blog: Dr Aurelie Charles and Damiano Sguotti discuss how a resilient and sustainable economic system needs to account for social justice.
A collection of publications by CASP members in relation to the current Covid-19 Pandemic.
Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones, Director of CASP, discusses the impact of austerity on older carers.
A BBC article on older carers, which includes contribution from Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones, Director of CASP
Baljit Banga, Executive Director of Imkaan, discusses how Covid-19 is disproportionately impacting women already affected by gender and race-based violence.
Paul Gregg writes on how we move beyond the symbolic ritual of #clapforcarers towards future policies that truly value our key workers with higher wages.
Justin Rogers along with Philip Mendes and Ian Thomas, write for ABC News about the impact of Covid-19 on care leavers and the support they need.
Director of CASP, Rachel Forrester-Jones, considers how society should value its care workers properly
Listen to our members talking about their research and recent news.
Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones talks about her research, her motivations for doing it and the wider work of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy.
Dr Rana Jawad talks to Andy Dunne about her research and expertise in relation to welfare systems in the MENA region.
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Our members are mainly located within the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, although we welcome members from across the University of Bath.
Our research engages with the evidence, design and evaluation behind policy development across a range of major social issues to inform future policy making.
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A child’s wellbeing has an important bearing on their current and future outcome: this has been brought to the forefront of the policy agenda in recent years.
Our researchers analyse the factors which determine the policy cycle to understand how policy is overseen and carried out in practice.
Our researchers aim to understand how income, wealth and health inequalities play out over the life course and how policy can influence inequality.
Analysing and evaluating employment and earnings policy changes to improve decision making in this area.
We aim to understand the causes of low income and how effective policies are in reducing poverty.
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The Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP) is part of the Department of Social & Policy Sciences. We rank 36th in the 2019 QS World University Rankings for Social Policy & Administration. Our researchers are critically engaged with policy development across a range of major social issues and as such are major contributors to this significant achievement.
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