impact assessment

May 28, 2019

Government extends permitted development rules

Local Government Association says permitted development rules are taking away the ability of local communities to shape the area they live in.
March 27, 2019

UN questions behaviour of private equity firms in making housing unaffordable

Private equity and asset management firms have converted homes into financial instruments and investments, say UN experts.
December 29, 2018

Government criticised for 'trying to brush over inequality caused by faith school discrimination'

The Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education has criticised the government for the partiality of its equality impact assessment and its consequent decision to go ahead with financial support for the creation of new voluntary aided faith schools.
September 28, 2018

Wildlife trust launches legal challenge against new expressway scheme

A wildlife trust is challenging the chosen route for the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway.
September 21, 2018

UK Government 'lagging behind in making budgets work for women'

The Women’s Budget Group is urging the UK Government to follow the example of the Scottish Government in analysing economic policies for their equality impact.
July 12, 2018

European Central Bank 'to consider climate impact'

The Bank will look to conduct a climate impact assessment of its quantitative easing programme
May 1, 2018

Welsh Government draft air pollution plans 'lack clarity'

Welsh Government plans to bring down illegal levels of air pollution "lack clarity" and are in danger of falling short of legal requirements, says ClientEarth.
April 20, 2018

Welsh Government 'cannot allow UK Government to plunge more Welsh children into poverty'

Welsh Minsters say they cannot be silent as UK Government’s tax and welfare reforms threaten to plunge 50,000 more Welsh children into poverty and increase levels of deprivation for the most vulnerable families.
March 29, 2018

Chinese mining operation 'threatens to wipe out coastal village' in Mozambique

A Chinese mining operation in Mozambique has put a coastal village at risk of being washed into the Indian Ocean, Amnesty International has revealed.
December 18, 2012

Creativity, academia and Critical Religion

It is widely acknowledged among those who still care that academia in the UK is in very serious trouble, says Dr Michael Marten from the University of Stirling. The most infamous embodiment of the current malaise is a mechanism imposed upon universities by successive Westminster governments: a system of ‘research assessment’ driven by an ideology of neo-liberal commodification. Alternative perspectives and mechanisms are badly needed, he says.