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  • Interim evaluation of National Citizen Service now available. Read the key findings here.
  • Details for Professor Sir Roger Jowell's memorial. View here.
  • NatCen Social Research appoints new Director of Marketing and Communications. Read the press release here.
  • Read the press release about our research into how men groom children online.
  • Watch our new video to hear users of the Scottish Health Survey tell us about the invaluable role it plays in monitoring the nation's health.
  • Listen to Rachel Ormston on Good Morning Scotland talk about latest finding from BSA on English attitudes to devolution.
  • Listen to Polly Toynbee talk about BSA welfare findings on the Today programme.
  • There is an appetite for welfare reform – but people still worry about inequality. Read Penny Young's Comment is free piece here.
  • Analyses of trends in food behaviours now published, read the reports here.
  • England's biggest annual survey of health issues now published, read the report here.
  • Read the latest evidence on how 'Family Interventions' are helping society's most troubled families, here.
  • Proposed changes to inheritance law make use of our research. Find out how social research and law reform can work hand in hand here.
  • Great piece in the Sunday Times on BSA 28, with lots of interesting feedback from other think tanks. Read it here.
  • Save the Children's CEO, Justin Forsyth, issues his response to BSA, read it here.
  • View Prime Minister David Cameron's statement on the new BSA 28 Report here.
  • Watch Chief Executive Penny Young discuss the new BSA 28 Report on BBC Newsnight
  • Watch Alison Park talk about the new BSA 28 Report on BBC Breakfast programme
  • Listen to Penny Young talk about the new BSA 28 Report on the Today programme - Social attitudes not reflecting 'Big Society'
  • The latest British Social Attitudes Report is now available. Read it free online here.
  • Read our new report on maternity and paternity rights.
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Lords Reform: Does the public have a clear view?

The debate about what to do with the House of Lords has been rumbling on now for over a century.  It all ...