JRF newsletter - October 2007

JRF newsletter - October 2007 (view on website)

* News and latest research

• Lone parents working under 16 hours a week ('mini-jobs')
• The impact of tax credits on mothers' employment

The Commission on Rural Housing in Wales

On Wednesday 3rd October, the JRF launched an independent Commission to examine the issue of housing need in rural Wales.

The Commission has been asked to take a range of existing and new evidence from policymakers, practitioners and the public. Its aims are to:

• establish insights and recommendations to take forward the issue of housing need in rural Wales;
• build consensus on the potential solutions to identified problems.

As the JRF focuses on the whole of the UK, we also hope that this exercise will highlight best practice both inside Wales that can be used elsewhere in the UK, and outside Wales that can be imported in.

The Commission will be chaired by Derec Llwyd Morgan, and will hold a number of evidence sessions across Wales before publishing its final report in April 2008.

Further details about the Commission, including its membership and a consultation paper, can be found at:

http://www.jrf.org.uk/ruralhousingwales

* Forthcoming publications for October:

• An evaluation of two initiatives to reward young people
• Youth poverty in Europe
• An evaluation of the use and impact of dispersal orders
• The voluntary sector's contribution to place-shaping
• Heavy cannabis use, vulnerability and youth transitions
• Providing Gypsy and Traveller sites: contentious spaces
• Attachment to place: Social networks, mobility and prospects of young people
• Devolution and regional governance: Tackling the economic needs of deprived areas

Please note: publication dates are subject to change.