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This report sets out how the government can ensure that owner-occupiers are able to age well in their own home. It identifies the scale of the challenge faced by older owner-occupiers, the barriers to improving housing, and the case for action. The report sets out a series of solutions to improve existing stock and deliver better new-build options for older homeowners.

• Housing

This pamphlet brings together rural MPs with a variety of experts and policymakers to explore the future of our countryside. As the authors set out, the potential of Britain’s rural areas is immense. By seeing rural areas as an social and economic asset, the government can realise this promise while protecting our countryside – and benefit communities across the country as a result.

• Rural

This briefing explores the implications of this government’s inheritance housebuilding. It shows how property prices have dramatically risen since 2002, and highlights the accompanying collapse in planning approvals, starts and completions. It also explores what the trajectory of housebuilding over the lifetime of this parliament could look like if the government is to meet its ambitious 1.5m target.

• Housing

In this report, research manager Ben Cooper sets out why addressing early-years poverty should be central to the government’s broader child poverty strategy. He then makes recommendations that would lift tens of thousands of babies and toddlers out of poverty and benefit many more, while navigating the fiscal and political obstacles facing the government.

• Early years

In this report, Fabian Society general secretary Joe Dromey and senior researcher Ben Cooper makes the case for an ambitious and fully funded fair pay agreement in care sector which will improve pay and conditions, tackle the workforce crisis, and improve the quality of care.

• Social Care
• Employment

BEN COOPER: Families with under-fives need an urgent income boost

• Early years
• Poverty