Useful links
Government
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Government department with responsibility for skills and training, including apprenticeships.
Department for Communities and Local Government
Communities and Local Government sets policy on local government, housing, urban regeneration, planning and fire and rescue.
Department for Work and Pensions
Access the Government's employment statistics and research resource centre.
Work and Pensions Select Committee
Scrutinises the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Think tanks
Centre for Cities
Think tank that works with cities, employers and central government to develop practical policy solutions which help urban economies grow.
Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion
Leading not-for-profit company dedicated to promoting social justice. Key areas of social policy expertise are welfare to work, learning and skills, regeneration, homelessness, criminal justice and social exclusion.
Centre for Social Justice
Think tank established by Iain Duncan Smith MP in 2004 to seek effective solutions to poverty in Britain.
Demos
The leading independent think tank in British politics that gives a voice to people and communities.
Institute for Public Policy Research
Think tank producing research and policy ideas for a just, democratic and sustainable world.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.
Policy Exchange
Think tank whose mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas which will foster a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom and limited government.
Social Market Foundation
Think tank which champions policy ideas which marry markets with social justice and takes a pro-market approach to economic and social policy.
The Work Foundation
The leading independent authority on work and its future. It aims to improve the quality of working life and the effectiveness of organisations.
Other
Child Poverty Action Group
Charity campaigning for the abolition of child poverty in the UK and for a better deal for low-income families and children.
Gingerbread
Charity working to help the UK’s 1.9 million single parents and their children. Their policy and research team develops knowledge and understanding of single parents' lives, and influences Government to bring about change.
Labour Market Statistics
Access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics.
National Audit Office
Audits the accounts of all central government departments and agencies.
UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Strengthens the employer voice and provides greater employer influence over the UK's employment and skills systems.
