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An independent think-tank, established to put social justice at the heart of British politics. 👉 MEDIA: media-enquiries@centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
We know the unrestricted dangers of the online world.
Our latest analysis suggests almost one million 3-5 year olds are now using social media.🤳
🗣️Watch Researcher Luke Taylor, on GBNews and read our full findings below.👇
On Wednesday evening the CSJ will be hosting a LIVE recording of the hit podcast, Not Another One.🎙️
Watch the recording LIVE on Wednesday from 6:20pm on X, LinkedIn or via the link below.🎄
Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF CC: Alison McGovern MP, Minister of State (Minister for Local Government and Homelessness) Dear Steve and Alison, Government funding for Housing First We are writing to welcome your commitment to delivering a new national homelessness strategy. As you have both made clear, rebuilding a prevention-first system and restoring effective partnership between central and local government is essential if we are to turn the tide on homelessness in this Parliament. As part of this work, we strongly encourage you to ensure that Housing First is a central component of the new strategy. The evidence from the three major pilots in Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and Liverpool City Region is clear: Housing First delivers for people with the most complex needs who are currently cycling in and out of rough sleeping, hostels, crisis healthcare and the criminal justice system. Independent evaluations show tenancy sustainment rates approaching 80–90%, significant reductions in A&E admissions, fewer interactions with police and emergency services, and marked improvements in wellbeing and long-term stability. The Centre for Social Justice’s (CSJ) recent No Place Like Home report provides a compelling financial case for expanding this provision nationally. The report shows that for an investment of just over £100 million between now and the end of this Parliament, Government could increase the number of Housing First places in England from around 2,500 to over 5,500. That means more than doubling the current capacity, giving local authorities the tools to support those with the most entrenched and complex needs. Crucially, this investment also represents good value for money. The CSJ analysis estimates that every £1 invested in Housing First returns around £2 in savings across health, criminal justice and temporary accommodation budgets over time. …
local areas to design wraparound support that works. It is a practical, compassionate and evidence-led approach that complements this government’s wider mission to rebuild public services, strengthen local partnerships and shift the system towards early intervention. With the new homelessness strategy in development, now is the moment to secure the continuity and scale that Housing First needs. National leadership, supported by a modest, targeted investment would give local commissioners the certainty to plan sustainably and would prevent the loss of hard-won progress from the pilots. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss this further and to support the department’s work in any way that would be helpful. We look forward to your response Yours sincerely, Paula Barker MP Kate Osborne MP Dr Simon Opher MP Kim Johnson MP Jonathan Brash MP Jon Trickett MP Mary Glindon MP Danny Beales MP Yasmin Qureshi MP Patrick Hurley MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Neil Duncan-Jordan MP Alex Sobel MP Dr Allison Gardner MP Chris Hinchliff MP Afzal Khan MP Margaret Mullane MP Navendu Mishra MP Marie Rimmer MP Nadia Whittome MP David Smith MP Jeff Smith MP Brian Leishman MP Chris Webb MP Connor Naismith MP Ian Byrne MP Ian Lavery MP Karl Turner MP Andrew Cooper MP Derek Twigg MP Gill Furniss MP
Mary Kelly Foy MP Richard Burgon MP Grahame Morris MP Sean Woodcock MP Justin Madders MP Maya Ellis MP Clive Lewis MP Peter Dowd MP Charlotte Nichols MP Lee Barron MP
I have written to the government, alongside 40 of my colleagues, calling for Housing First to be rolled out nationwide as part of the upcoming homelessness strategy.
Please find the letter below.
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📱Social media is driving screen addiction in young children and creating serious challenges for their mental health.
🎙️Sophie Winkleman joined the CSJ's panel on amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing in Schools Bill and pushed for stronger safeguards on #PoliticsLive.
👇Read our latest analysis.
📰 @financialtimes.com
'UK ministers are exploring tougher regulation of AI chatbots over concerns they could encourage teenagers to commit acts of self-harm.'
We welcome this @lizkendallmp.bsky.social - as we uncovered, any child can now access self-harm content on AI chatbots👇
Political momentum for Housing First is building ahead of the Homelessness Strategy. 🏠📈
Labour MPs Lee Pitcher and Patrick Hurley called for a national rollout of the models successfully piloted in Manchester and Liverpool yesterday.
Our plan to double places👇
🚨BREAKING: Rough sleeping has hit a post-pandemic high.
9,574 people slept rough in July.
That’s 94% ⬆️ from 4 years ago.
🏠Housing First - backed by @andyburnham.bsky.social and @metromayorsteve.bsky.social - is a proven solution.
We must double places nationally⏫
@stevemorganfdn.bsky.social💚
⬇️Read our full statement here:
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/buc...
To help reduce young NEETs we recommend an effective tax cut worth £700 million to help employers hire young people.🤝
This policy would get 120,000 young people into work and save £800 million in tax and welfare.🏛️
The CSJ has called for a package of welfare reform to get Britain working:👇
Saving £7 billion by tightening mental health benefits to more severe cases.
💬Freeing up £1 billion+ to radically expand NHS talking therapies and back to work support.
The CSJ welcomes extra apprenticeships, but ministers must urgently return to proper welfare reform to rescue the lives of millions who have been thrown on the scrapheap.
AND the nation’s creaking bank balance.💷
Working-age sickness and disability benefit spending is to increase by a further £17.8 billion by 2030/31. 📈
CSJ analysis reveals the number of claimants with no requirement to work has increased by 940,000 since May 2024 in crisis of millions "written off".
"Loading yet more taxes onto the public like a game of buckaroo is not the same as doing the hard work to repair broken Britain."
Policy Director, Joe Shalam, responds to today's Budget.👇
👏Thank you to Wates Family Enterprise Trust and Thakeham for their partnership with the CSJ and essential insights that made this report possible.
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/skil...
🗣️ Jonathan Hinder MP:
“Thousands of working-class young people - especially boys - could have their life chances transformed through a rewarding career in construction if we get this right.”
The CSJ has today published a comprehensive plan with 26 recommendation, including:
🔧A new Future Workforce Credit, a major incentive to hire young workers
🏫Overhauling construction and technical skills to post-16 education
Ending the reliance on migration by backing the next generation instead
🏚️Govt's target of 1.5 million new homes by 2029 is already at risk.
To deliver it, the UK will need at least 161,000 additional construction workers, rising to 239,000 by 2030 when projected demand is included📈
This scale of recruitment is unprecedented and is a huge challenge in need of answers.
The CSJ has been on construction sites across the UK, and our call for evidence heard from workers, employers and apprentices about the future of the sector.
🎥 Watch our video from earlier this year: x.com/csjthinktank...
Our new report, Skills to Build, sets out the full scale of the crisis and why we can't ‘Build, Baby, Build' without fixing Britain’s construction workforce.
📄Full Report: www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/skil...
🚨NEW CSJ REPORT🚨
One in three builders is now OVER the age of 50 and 130,000 are 65+👷
Meanwhile the number of young people in construction has collapsed by over 150,000 since 2008.
We are in the midst of a workforce crisis that threatens Britain’s ability to build.
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🗞️ “Boys look to be fathered, and when they find no one who can perform that vital role at home, they may move on to the ones we don’t want.”
Ed Davies, CSJ Research Director, on what this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert reveals about fatherhood in Britain today.
⬇️ Read the full article below.
🏆 CSJ Awards: One Year On
🚀Finally, we head to the North East and Middlesbrough, where Richard Brice has taken Clean Slate from strength to strength since winning a CSJ Award.
🎥Watch his story below.
🗣️"The data show the social contract, our expectations of each other, our basic shared morality, has shifted and created dramatic new realities."
📰In his latest article, Ed Davies discusses the moral dynamics shaping British politics.
👇Read the full article below.
