Ipsos end of year review covering the main political issues of 2006. This was the year when the government struggled on with public service reform, but hit new lows in terms of public confidence in the NHS (despite levels of satisfaction with actual treatments remaining higher than before). It was a year when, for the first time ever, race and immigration became the key issues that Britons saw facing the country. A year when ratings of both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition fell. A year when, compared to the rest of the G6 countries, Britons were the most negative about their government's handling of crime.
Ipsos uses all major survey methods across our huge range of work. This runs from face-to-face in-home interviewer surveys using probability samples, through telephone surveys using quotas that are designed to reflect the population, to online studies using panels of people who have signed up to take part in surveys.
The report examine different approaches to engagement being used and assesses what works and under which circumstances and to identify transferable features, or ingredients, that can be applied to different policy developments/areas.
Read our latest work for the Youth Justice board. We have conducted Youth Surveys for the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB) since 1999. The overall aim of the research has been to examine the experiences of crime, of both offenders and victims, among 11- 16-year-old young people in mainstream education.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Public Interest in Poverty Issues programme (PiPi) aims to secure and strengthen public support for alleviating poverty in the UK. This research project informed the programme through two stages of qualitative research. The first involved an evaluation of existing public attitudes to UK poverty, and the second employed a more creative approach to identify messages which might resonate with the public on the issue and thereby generate a more favourable climate of opinion for anti-poverty policies.
This report brings together thirty years of research among this key audience and covers MPs' attitudes towards business and the political and economic landscape in which business operates. Specifically:
The issues MPs are contacted about most frequently by individuals
MPs' economic outlook and how their views compare with other audiences
How MPs' concerns for business and industry have changed since the late 1970s
MPs' views on whether business is meeting its social and environmental responsibilities
The factors MPs take into account when judging companies
The lessons we have learnt from analysing the reputation of individual companies
Individual MPs singled out as most impressive by their peers
This report examines the data collected in the 2003/4 Best Value Performance Indicator surveys (BVPIs) for the impact of place on perceptions of transport services, drawing on 2001 Census and other secondary sources to provide context.
There is increasing interest in comparing the different approaches to balancing economic and social welfare priorities across countries in Europe and beyond. This has led to new models that have attempted to explain and classify the current government's approach in Britain. For example, Will Hutton has talked about the "social democratising" of the Anglo-Saxon model, and last year Nick Pearce (Director of ippr) and colleagues outlined the "Anglo-Social Model". This describes the approach as an attempt to combine the economic performance and flexibility of liberal welfare states with the social protection and equality of Scandinavian countries.
