Social issues: resources

Latest additions: 'Prison' series 2 (Channel 4) broadcast Feb-March 2020, plus the latest 'Crime in England and Wales' statistics. Amongst other links: 'Jailhouse Law', an episode in the BBC Radio 4 series 'Law in Action', broadcast in March 2019. This programme describes the transformative work of a prison project where inmates study legal issues alongside law students from Cambridge University - Jack Merritt, one of the project organisers, was killed in the London Bridge attack in November 2019

Top of the list at the moment: OECD Gender Data Portal, which offers a variety of indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment, entrepreneurship, governance, health and development

Just added: the 'Empty Doorway' project from the Guardian newspaper, recounting the lives of some of the UK's homeless who died on the streets during 2019

Research by Rob Ralphs and Manchester Met colleagues on drug use, and more ...

Includes a wide range of reports, statistics, documentaries and news items

A wide-ranging collection on social class, inequalities and poverty - just added the Feb 2020 Marmot Review 10 Years On, which shows that health inequalities have widened since 2010, with life expectancy for the poorest women actually going into reverse, particularly in Northern England.

Resources taking you from Victorian workhouses to Universal Basic Income proposals, and all sorts inbetween