Search results for "plan F" Filter by -- All Categories -- AnalysisBlogEventsFGND BlogNewsRecruitmentResources -- All Topics -- Sort by Most Recent Oldest First A-Z Z-A Past Events Blog Plan F: Our General Election Manifesto Response UK Policy Briefings How do election 2015 party manifestos measure up to a Plan F? A briefing (November, 2016) UK Policy Briefings To ensure economic recovery for women, we need Plan F Pre-Budget Briefing, September 2013 UK Policy Briefings Plan F: A feminist economic strategy for a caring and sustainable economy Pre-Budget Briefing, 2015 UK Policy Briefings Plan A has failed. It is time for Plan F Pre-Budget Briefing, March 2012 Press Releases WBG responds to Government’s five-point immigration plan Open Letters Rishi Sunak: ‘listen to common sense’ and scrap plans for asylum camps on military bases and barges UK Budget Assessments Misguided plans for Austerity 2.0 – WBG response to Autumn Statement 2022 Open Letters Jeremy Hunt: Challenges faced by parents and childcare sector due to fiscal plans UK Policy Briefings A feminist analysis of Sheffield’s plans to build back better Events 07.10.2021 Revitalising local communities across the UK – for people and planet UK Policy Briefings Government’s announced plan will not “fix social care once and for all” – we need a free universal social care system Press Releases Government plan to remove the £20 uplift to Universal Credit is out of step with young Conservative voters UK Policy Briefings WBG quick response to Government Plans on Funding for Social Care Blog Caring for the planet and for people – why a Feminist Green New Deal is urgent Consultation Responses Submission to the HCLG Committee on the Planning System in England December 2020 Blog WBG responds to Johnson’s environmental plan UK Policy Briefings Response to the Winter Economic Plan Blog Why Women Will Save the Planet (Friends of the Earth and C40 Cities)- a review Consultation Responses Submission to BEIS ‘Good Work Plan’ Consultation Blog Submission to BEIS Good Work Plan consultation November 2019 Press Releases We respond to Conservative Party tax and spending plans this week Cuts to corporation tax largely benefit men Consultation Responses Submission to the NHS long term plan consultation August 2019 Press Releases WBG welcomes Labour announcement of free personal care for older people ‘We welcome plans for a national care service, free at the point of need. Successive governments’ failure to fund, and plan for, rising care needs adequately has pushed adult social care to breaking point.' Open Letters Open Letter: A letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Ahead of the Spring Budget Open Letters Public Letter: The proposed sustainable aviation fuel revenue certainty mechanism should not be funded by the taxpayer Press Releases WBG says UK Government lags behind OECD peers’ ambitions for early education and childcare UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2023: Social care and gender UK Budget Assessments WBG’s response to the Chancellor’s statement 17 Oct 2022 UK Budget Assessments An Inequality Budget Unfit for a Cost-of-Living Crisis Blog The WTO’s Gendered Comeback: Gender Concerns at the 12th Ministerial Conference Press Releases WBG’s response to the Queen’s Speech 2022 UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2022: Social care and gender Press Releases UK WBG response to the Levelling-Up White Paper Consultation Responses Justice Committee: Inquiry on Women in Prison Consultation Responses Treasury Committee: Inquiry on Jobs, growth, and productivity after coronavirus UK Policy Briefings Autumn Budget 2021: Social care, gender and Covid-19 Blog Tax wealth and profit income to fund social care and healthcare News Archive Media Round-Up: September 2021 Press Releases House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee Report on DWP’s preparations for changes in the world of work Blog A Minimum Income Guarantee – income security for women? UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2021: Local government, gender and Covid-19 UK Policy Briefings Local Government, Gender and Covid-19 If The Government Is Serious About ‘Building Back Better’, Rishi Sunak Must Invest In Care It’s time to talk about a feminist green new deal Open Letters An open letter to the Prime Minister UK Policy Briefings 2020 WBG Briefings: Local government and gender March 2020 UK Policy Briefings An End to Austerity? What the Spending Review means for women Press Releases Promoting gender equality across Government March 2017 response to recommendations of the Women and Equalities Committee on Sustainable Development Goal 5. Budget Assessments Analysis May Monitor: How will Theresa May’s Government live up to her early promises? How will Theresa May’s Government live up to her early promises? Blog Corbyn vs. Smith How the Labour leadership candidates responded to 5 questions on gender equality UK Budget Assessments 2015 Spring Budget: Briefing Spring Budget Briefing (April 2015) UK Budget Assessments 2014 Autumn Financial Statement: Full Budget Analysis 2014 Autumn FS Press Releases WBG response to 2014 Autumn Financial Statement 30th December 2014 UK Budget Assessments The Impact on women of Autumn Financial Statement 2012 and Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill 2013 2012 Autumn FS UK Budget Assessments The Impact on Women of the Spring Budget 2011 Spring Budget (April 2011) Press Releases Revealed: £94.9bn per year – the cost of barriers to paid work for women…and it’s rising Press Releases WBG Response to Coram’s Childcare Survey Press Releases Tax giveaways to better off men will cost worse off women, says WBG Press Releases Rumoured tax cuts would benefit men over women, finds WBG UK Budget Assessments WBG full response to Autumn Statement 2023 Open Letters Reinstate the Access to Elected Office Fund – Open Letter Press Releases Using today’s inflation rate for benefit rise would cost single mothers £218 a year says Women’s Budget Group Press Releases King’s speech fails to address ongoing cost of living crisis Press Releases New report by the Early Education and Childcare Coalition ‘Retention and return: Delivering the expansion of early years entitlement in England’ Open Letters An Open Statement from We Are the Economy Press Releases Women’s Budget Group Response to Prime Minister Changing of Green Policies Blog Are Other Nations Outpacing the UK in Childcare? A blog by Ebyan Abdirahman, Research and Policy Officer at the Women's Budget Group Our Strategy UK Policy Briefings Early Education and Childcare in the UK and Beyond: Key Challenges and Lessons A two-part briefing from the Women’s Budget Group exploring key challenges facing the UK’s early education and childcare alongside lessons from international examples, with a summary of both Press Releases WBG says funding childcare and early years is vital to economic growth, but can only be achieved with adequate support for those on low incomes Open Letters Together Against Charging: Trade Union and Migrant Org Statement Blog Bridging the Gender Data Gap Reflections from Ilaria Esposito who attended WBG's Census Day Event Blog Women’s Budget Groups in Glasgow Reflections of each of the Women’s Budget Groups, as well as an overview of what was highlighted in our cross-nation state of play discussions. Press Releases Equality rights groups call for Treasury transparency Toolkits How to use Census 2021 data Press Releases WBG urges the Labour Party not to lose ambition on childcare Press Releases WBG welcomes funding boost for childcare in Universal Credit but it remains insufficient to meet actual cost of childcare today News Media Round-Up: April 2023 Press Releases Breaking Down the Census: Feminist Organisations join forces to bring raw data to life and move one step closer to bridging the Gender Data Gap Open Letters Consensus statement on a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing in England News Media Round-Up: February 2023 Press Releases £88.7bn per year: the cost of barriers to paid work for women Press Releases WBG’s response to the Spring Statement 2023 News Media Round-Up: March 2023 UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2023: Women and employment UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2023: Local government and gender UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2023: Health inequalities and gender Consultation Responses WBG Budget Representation 2023 News Media Round-Up: December 2022 Blog Focusing on Care can address both the Climate and the Cost-of-living Crises Blog Gender-Responsive Public Policy at the Municipal Level: Municipal Officials in Athens & Karditsa Blog Austerity is Gender-based Violence GPL Blog UK Policy Briefings The Gendered Impact Of The Cost-of-Living Crisis on Public Services Press Releases WBG warns against austerity 2.0, a triple whammy for women Blogs and Videos UK Policy Briefings A Green and Caring Economy Press Releases A Green and Caring Economy: a feminist vision for tackling the climate crisis and transforming the economy Open Letters Jeremy Hunt: Supporting families by uprating benefits in line with inflation Press Releases WBG’s response to Labour’s childcare announcement Press Releases WBG’s response to the mini-budget announcement on 23 September 2022 Press Releases The energy cap freeze is welcome but there is a long way to go Open Letters Rising energy prices is a “national emergency” and more support needed to tackle gravest issue UK faces, say charities News Media Round-Up: July 2022 UK Policy Briefings Sustainable lifestyle changes for a green and caring economy News Media Round-Up: June 2022 News Media Round-Up: May 2022 Press Releases WBG’s response to the Chancellor’s cost-of-living support package UK Budget Assessments WBG Full Response to the Spring Statement 2022 UK Policy Briefings Spring Budget 2022: Women and employment Press Releases Give 1.9 million more people access to social care and create one million more jobs with a new universal social care service Press Releases A shorter working week could help to close the gender pay gap Events 22.02.2022 Universal Quality Social Care: Transforming adult social care in England Press Releases UK WBG response to calls from Cabinet to delay NIC increase Consultation Responses Treasury Committee: Inquiry on an Equal Recovery Press Releases The Government’s Social Care White Paper: ‘a good vision without a meaningful strategy for delivery’ Blog Demanding Change: The Rise of Working Mothers in the Mid-Century United States Blog Childcare concerns us all News Archive Media Round-Up: October 2021 UK Policy Briefings Briefing Note: A Spending Review for a Green and Care-led Recovery UK Budget Assessments Comprehensive Spending Review 2021: A Joint Representation from the UK Women’s Budget Group UK Policy Briefings Revitalising Local Communities Events 04.11.2021 Why do we need a feminist approach to tackling the climate crisis? Blog Why doesn’t English Devolution deliver for Women? One Day it might….. Written by: Dr. Fiona Armstrong Gibbs Blog As working patterns change is it time to rethink public transport priorities? This blog is by Anna Johnston, Research and Policy Officer at the Women’s Budget Group. Blog The climate emergency is here: We must make our housing policy greener too Greenhouse gas emissions for housing contribute 22 per cent of the UK’s carbon footprint. It’s time our housing policy recognised this, says Anna Johnston from the Women’s Budget Group. Blog An Invisible and Vulnerable Sector: Early Years Childcare and Covid Events 29.09.2021 Women’s Budget Group AGM 2021 Press Releases WBG media statement for Government social care announcement Blog End of the Ideal Worker? Written by Caroline Waterworth UK Policy Briefings Rethinking Housing Supply and Design UK Policy Briefings ‘Freedom Day’ – what are the implications of lifting lockdown restrictions in England? Press Releases Leading Women’s Organisations Call on Government to ‘Build Back Fairer’ Blog Call for Papers – 3rd Annual Early Career Network Conference 3rd Annual Early Career Network Conference UK Policy Briefings Towards Gender Inclusive and Sustainable Transport Systems UK Policy Briefings Losses in the Childcare Sector News Archive Media Round-Up: April 2021 Who's been talking about WBG this month? Press Releases Self-employed women are losing out on Government support Blog Why a Green New Deal Must be Feminist Blog Prime Minister promised to ‘fix adult social care’ but we are still waiting… Open Letters Joint response on the possibility of separate Universal Credit payments to partners in couples Events Blog Automating care: the devaluation of care work for the elderly in the name of gender equality Blog Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care (Madeleine Bunting)- A Review Feminist Green New Deal Open Letters Post Pandemic Childcare Open Letters Redundancy protection: joint letter to Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Blog Women are better investors than men Press Releases Women’s Budget Group response to the Women and Equalities Select Committee report Coronavirus and the gendered economic impact. News Archive Media Round-Up: January 2021 Who's been talking about WBG this month? Press Releases Mothers on the lowest incomes are eight times more at risk of losing their job due to school closures in the UK ECN Feminist Economics Book Club 2020 Blog Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan- A Review UK Policy Briefings Social Care, Gender and Covid-19 Events 11.11.2020 2nd Annual Early- Career Network Conference Reports Creating a Caring Economy: A Call to Action This report explores how we can build back better after coronavirus through exploring what kind of world do we want to create? What kind of economy do we want to make? Reports The Case for Sustainable Funding for Women’s Centres Press Releases We can no longer ignore the business case for reducing the number of women in prison Events 07.10.2020 Labour Women’s Network event: The Feminist Case for a Care-led Recovery Event with The Labour Women's Network Executive Summary WBG Commission on a Gender-Equal Economy Events 30.09.2020 Creating a caring economy: a call to action Blog The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich- a review Blog The government must invest in childcare or the early years sector will cost women their jobs News Archive Media Round-Up: June 2020 Who's been talking about WBG this month? Press Releases Crisis of care for women in England as lock down lifts New data shows that childcare costs between a fifth and a quarter of women’s salaries. Press Releases WBG response to Chancellor’s ‘economic update’: Investment welcome but insufficient as WBG data shows investment in care could create over 2 million jobs Open Letters Gendered impact of the UK’s Government’s lifting of lockdown Open Letters Our letter asking for Alok Sharma’s support for the Pregnancy and Maternity (Redundancy Protection Bill) Press Releases WBG responds to the Prime Minister’s speech: Invest in care to create jobs and growth Investment in Scandinavian-style universal care would create more than 2 million jobs Blog ‘The Inner Level’ (Wilkinson and Pickett) – a review Press Releases New data reveals “crisis of support” for BAME women Half of disabled or retired BAME women say they do not know where to go for help vs 1 in 5 white women Blog On the Hottest Day in the UK So Far, A Discussion on a Feminist Green New Deal Blog Unpaid care: the only Coronavirus constant? Events 20.05.2020 What would a Feminist Green New Deal look like? Blog Has the Bank of England found a magic money tree? Open Letters Joint Open Letter in The Guardian: Universal credit’s two-child limit and the benefit cap must end now Commission Publications Press Releases Crises Collide: Women and Covid-19 Our latest briefing sets out the immediate impact that Covid- 19 crisis is having on women that needs to be addressed. 'At the end of this immediate emergency we cannot return to business as usual.' News Archive Media Round-Up: March 2020 Who's been talking about WBG this month? Blog It is women, especially low-paid, BAME & migrant women putting their lives on the line to deliver vital care Blog Doughnut Economics (Kate Raworth) – a review Feminist Economics Book Club Open Letters Open Letter to UK Government covered in The Times More is needed for the Covid-19 Crisis Blog Covid-19 Crisis: Questions for the Chancellor UK Policy Briefings 2020 WBG Briefing: Childcare and gender March 2020 Blog ‘Invisible Women’: a mind-blowing exposure of a male-centred world (review) Feminist Economics Book Club Blog Voter ID proposals risk disenfranchising the most marginalised women Blog Gender equality: 5 things to look out for in the Queen’s speech Your guide to the Queen's opening of parliament Blog Roads and rails are welcome, but a healthy economy needs care Blog How are the main parties promising to end the social care crisis? Blog Social Care Is In Crisis: We Need A National Care Service Our social care system is in crisis and women are bearing the brunt. Blog No, Universal Credit is not ‘gender neutral’ Any reform of the social security system should be subject to a meaningful equality impact assessment. Blog Calling all candidates: tax justice is gender justice We need to think about tax in a different way – as a vital source of funding for public services. Press Releases Women and Housing: General Election It’s key that all parties capture the extent to which the housing crisis is disproportionately affecting women Press Releases 32 Women’s and Equality Organisations launch a ‘Manifesto for Women and Girls’ Reflections on the Scottish approach to gender equality UK Policy Briefings General Election 2019: Towards an Economy which Works for Women UK Policy Briefings Operation Yellowhammer: briefing from the Women’s Budget Group Events 18.09.2019 Intersectionality in Feminist Economics panel Unite the Union, London, WC1X 8TN, 18:30 – 19:45 Events 18.09.2019 AGM 2019 and Management Committee Election Unite the Union, London WC1X 8TN, 5-6:30pm Blog ‘Operation Yellowhammer’ leak: what does it mean for women? Analysing the gendered impact of a no deal Brexit Blog Promoting Gender Budgeting in Colombia WBG delivers a lecture at the first summer school in Latin America on gender and economics Commission Parliamentary Drop-in 2nd Annual Early Career Network Conference Blog How Women Made the West Rich – a lesson from economic history A blog by Dr Victoria Bateman on women's freedom and economic prosperity. News Archive Media Round-up: March 2019 Who's been talking about the WBG this month? Blog Reshaping the economy to work for all: New Commission on a Gender- Equal Economy Blog ‘Gender-neutral’: Universal Credit Equality Impact Assessments Equality Impact Assessments can improve decision-making and and show if public bodies have considered equality Blog Gender Segregation by Field of Study in Higher Education: A New Way of Gender Inequality? The first blog post of our ECN series "Women and the Economy" Blog Going, going, gone: The unrelenting destruction of our social infrastructure A guest blog by Hilary Land, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol Blog Why older women’s economic empowerment matters for international development A guest blog by Kate Horstead, Policy Advisor at Age International Blog Promoting Economic Pluralism A guest blog by Teresa Linzner from Promoting Economic Pluralism UK Policy Briefings Autumn Budget 2018: Childcare October 2018 UK Policy Briefings 2018 WBG Briefing: Tax and Gender October 2018 Events 29.10.2018 2018 Autumn Budget viewing Room 6, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BB, 3-6pm Useful Links Quaker’s ‘new economy’ booklets A series of free booklets and session plans for new economy reading groups Press Releases ‘Universal Credit risks increasing women’s vulnerability to abuse’ 12th September 2018 Events 19.09.2018 AGM 2018 The Living Room, City Hall, London, 4pm – 5.30pm UK Policy Briefings The Equality impact of tax and benefit changes – why an impact assessment is needed December 2017 briefing Press Releases Autumn Budget 2017 ‘tinkering at the margins’ says Women’s Budget Group 22nd November 2017 Events 22.11.2017 Members invited to review Autumn Budget 2017 Barrow Cadbury Trust, 12pm – 3pm UK Policy Briefings 2017 Pre-budget briefing: Childcare Our series of briefings on the gender impact of policy in 12 distinct areas ahead of the Autumn Budget 2017. UK Policy Briefings 2017 Pre-budget briefing: Taxation Our series of briefings on the gender impact of policy in 12 distinct areas ahead of the Autumn Budget 2017. Blog Recruiting for a Research and Policy Officer Press Releases New research shows Universal Credit failing the ‘just about managing’ 16th August 2017 Events 22.05.2017 The General Election Women’s Hustings Monday 22 May, Chartered Insurance Institute, London, 6pm – 8pm UK Policy Briefings Social care: A system in crisis WBG's 2017 briefing on the crisis in social care UK Budget Assessments 2017 Spring Budget: WBG full analysis 2017 Spring Budget Analysis Outcry over NICs hides the biggest losers of government tax and benefit policy Events 08.03.2017 Join WBG to view the 2017 Budget Wednesday 8 March, Barrow Cadbury Trust WC2B 4AS (rooms 1 & 2), 12-3pm Events 23.11.2016 Join WBG to view the 2016 Autumn Financial Statement Wednesday 23 November 2016, TUC, London, 12pm - 3pm Blog Does the Treasury have something to hide? WBG immediate response to the Women & Equalities Committee report About Us UK Policy Briefings A cumulative gender impact assessment of ten years of austerity policies A March 2016 briefing from the UK Women’s Budget Group. Blog Budget response: Women paying for the Chancellor’s tax cuts Budget response (March, 2016) Blog Policies of the Conservative Government to be more regressive than those of the Coalition A new briefing launched today by the UK Women’s Budget Group (March, 2016) Press Releases The 2015 Spending Review: Chancellor still failing to invest in women’s security 25th November 2015 Press Releases Osborne’s recovery is an illusion, women still feel the pinch 5th December 2013 UK Budget Assessments The impact on women of the 2013 Spending Round July 2013 Spending Round UK Budget Assessments 2013 Spring Budget: Full Budget Analysis 2013 Spring Budget Analysis Other social security The Women’s Budget Group analyses the gender impact of social security including working age benefits, tax credits and child benefit UK Budget Assessments The Impact on Women of the Budget 2012 2012 Spring Budget UK Budget Assessments 2012 Spring Budget: Full WBG Analysis March 2012 UK Budget Assessments The Impact on Women of the Autumn Financial Statement 2011 2011 Autumn FS UK Budget Assessments The Impact on Women of the Spending Review 2010 2010 Spending Review UK Budget Assessments WBG Response to HM Treasury’s Pre-Budget Report 2006 Pre-Budget 2006 UK Budget Assessments WBG Response to HM Treasury’s Pre-Budget Report 2005 Pre-Budget 2005 UK Budget Assessments WBG Response to the Budget 2002 2002 Budget
