WBG quick response to Government Plans on Funding for Social Care
WBGs response to Government plans for funding for social care, including recommended reforms on taxes on wealth and income from wealth.
Report
The case for investment in care as a better post-pandemic economic stimulus than investment in construction.
Exclusive new Women’s Budget Group data supports calls for a care-led recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic showing that investment in a Scandinavian style care system would create over two million jobs.
Research by Dr Jerome De Henau and Prof Susan Himmelweit for the UK Women’s Budget Group finds that investment in care has the potential to mitigate the worst employment effects of the Coronavirus recession:
WBGs response to Government plans for funding for social care, including recommended reforms on taxes on wealth and income from wealth.
Investment in care could create 2.7 times as many jobs as if invested in construction. Care jobs are also imperative to tackling climate change.
A Pre Budget briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group on 'Health inequalities and Covid-19' - Spring 2021
This briefing sets out the immediate impact that Covid-19 crisis is having on different groups of women and makes recommendations for action.