The Centre for Progressive Policy

Making inclusive growth a reality

The Centre for Progressive Policy is a think tank committed to driving productivity and shared prosperity in the UK.

Our approach

We believe that a new approach to growth is needed, harnessing the best of central and local government to shape the national economic environment and build on the assets and opportunities of place.

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The levelling up outlook #5

This version of the levelling up outlook focusses on the cost of living crisis, measuring the underlying vulnerability of different local authorities to an increase in poverty.

What Women Want

Tackling gender inequalities in unpaid care and the workplace

Women in the labour market

As part of CPP's Women in the Labour Market programme, this report explores how inadequacies in the childcare system act as a barrier to women’s participation in the labour market.

Britain's warehouse workers needed an Employment Bill. The government has failed them

The government chose not to include the Employment Bill in the Queen's Speech. Ross Mudie explains how this failure will impact Britain's growing warehouse workforce.

The cost of living crisis poses an existential threat to levelling up

Annabel Smith and Ross Mudie argue that failing to support the vulnerable through the cost of living crisis risks setting levelling up back years.

With costs rising, the government must do more to unlock the earning potential of people juggling work and care

Rosie Fogden argues that the government must expand the right to flexible working to better support people juggling work with unpaid caring responsibilities.

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4 May 2022

The Telegraph covers CPP findings on the cost of scrapping the right to flexible working for sandwich carers

CPP analysis shoes that scrapping plans to give employees a mandatory right to flexible working will cost sandwich carers £3,000 a year in lost earnings

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12 April 2022

The Mirror covers CPP's levelling up outlook finding that coastal communities are uniquely vulnerable to rising poverty amid cost of living crisis

CPP's findings that shows that coastal towns including Hastings, Thanet, and Dover, are likely to be pushed into poverty as rising costs hit those on low pay and those out of work

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12 April 2022

The Independent covers CPP's levelling up outlook and the implications of the cost of living crisis on place-based inequalities

The Independent covers CPP's levelling up outlook, and the cost of living vulnerability index.

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Levelling up the UK - research, recommendations and commentary

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