We are now open for applications for internships with NPI in 2008. We are also inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals who may wish to work with NPI, on an associate basis, on any of our prospective projects. Further details on both the internship and new associate programmes can be found here.
A list of the projects areas of interest NPI expects to examine in 2008 has now been published. The list is not exclusive and will be updated as and when necessary.
NPI's tenth annual report assessing the state of progress on poverty and social exclusion across the UK was published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 3 December. With the latest official figures on UK poverty showing a rise for the first time in a decade, this report reviews its usual wide range of evidence in order to reach an overall conclusion on where the strategy to end child poverty now stands. Looking to the future, the report tries to assess whether all that is needed is more of the same - or whether instead the time has now come for a fundamental rethink.
The report can be accessed from our poverty publications page.
The New Policy Institute is a progressive think tank, founded in 1996. Wholly independent, it has neither financial backers nor political patrons.
Almost all its funding is project-based and comes principally from charitable foundations, trade unions, voluntary sector organisations and public sector bodies.
Most projects lead directly to public-domain reports, of which there are now over 100. The exceptions to this are those projects carried out on a consultancy basis. Some reports - and most submissions to inquiries - are unfunded.
The New Policy Institute team is: Peter Kenway, Tom MacInnes, Guy Palmer, Angi Driver, Jenny Pannell, Cathy Street and Steve Macarthur. Click here for more details.
