Social Inclusion

Every year the British Social Attitudes survey asks over 3000 people what it’s like to live in Britain and how they think Britain is run...

Drawing on the many different strands of our research, this summary reveals that more children than previously believed experience poverty...

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) has introduced a new service for separated parents, the Child Maintenance Options Service.

An analysis of the links between fuel related poverty and poor mental and physical health

Mapping patterns of worklessness across successive generations...

This project seeks to understand and identify the different combinations of economic problems that people in poverty face - and create measures that reflect these experiences.

The Scottish Social Attitudes study aims to provide high quality survey data on a wide range of social and political issues...

The Scottish Social Attitudes study aims to provide high quality survey data on a wide range of social and political issues...

NatCen have been commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to conduct a large programme of qualitative research as part of the evaluation of the Support for Very Long-term Unemployed (SVLTU) Trailblazer.

NatCen was commissioned by the Cabinet Office to conduct an independent study into the motivations of young people involved in or affected by the riots – the report is the first, and currently only, major study to be based on what young people themselves have to say

This study reports on the characteristics and outcomes of young children living in persistent poverty in Scotland.

Understanding older people’s experience of multiple disadvantage by exploring the relationships between disadvantages.

This study explores social exclusion in those who work atypical times and older people

The largest social research study of its kind in the world with 40,000 households - 100,000 individuals - taking part across the UK...