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Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker
There has been a significant improvement in sentiment towards the UK housing market; however, whilst the gap between buying and selling expectations is narrowing the regional variations remain, according to the latest quarterly Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker conducted by Ipsos.
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Understanding customers: now and next
Welfare reform and new digital technology mean that housing associations must modernise the way they understand customers says Ben Marshall in his blog for 24dash.com.
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Back to school
Simon Atkinson blogs on an Ipsos survey for banking group ING that found the British to be the most enthusiastic “cheerleaders” for providing financial education in schools.
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Understanding the opportunities and challenges presented by welfare reform
New research conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Viridian Housing shows that two-way understanding between social landlords and tenants will be key to responding to welfare reforms.
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Flying Start: Qualitative research with high need families
The Welsh Government commissioned Ipsos to undertake a qualitative study exploring the experiences of high need parents engaging with the Flying Start early years' services. The research identifies perceived impacts among this group, and will be used in conjunction with the outputs from our wider evaluation of the programme to inform future delivery.
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Freedom to choose - it's harder than we think
Jayesh Navin Shah of our Social Research Institute blogs on choice and control in public services for disabled people.
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Homes for Britain: Britain for homes?
Ben Marshall gives a speech about public attitudes towards housing at the Labour Party conference 2013.
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"No such thing as society"?
Ipsos tested two versions of Margaret Thatcher's famous "no such thing as society" interview, each with representative samples of the population - one with just that simple statement, and one with a much longer excerpt from the interview. And there is a dramatic difference in results.
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Conservatives open up gap over Labour on managing the economy
The Conservatives hold an 18 point lead over Labour on managing the economy, according to the latest Ipsos research, having been neck-and-neck in March. This follows six months of rising economic optimism
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New homes: more Londoners prioritise building quality over quantity
According to an Ipsos poll for Berkeley Group, more Londoners think that building fewer homes with higher design standard would be better, than building more homes with lower design standards.