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SHERU Response

New child poverty data and updates on methodological changes

April 8, 2025

Families with young children are one of the population groups that SHERU are monitoring closely due to the evidenced links…

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Employment
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SHERU Response

SHERU response to the UKG Green Paper on changes to health and disability benefits

March 19, 2025

The Green Paper on ill health and disability welfare reform published on the 18th March follows weeks of media speculation…

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Income and Wealth
Research spotlight

Wealth disparities and health inequalities

March 12, 2025

A link to a downloadable PDF of this report can be found here.

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Income and Wealth

New awards of disability benefits for adults – comparing Scotland with England and Wales

November 29, 2024

Adult disability benefits are non-means tested payments available to people with ill health or a disability to compensate for some…

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Reports

Scotland’s Census: Understanding changes in health and socioeconomic inequality since 2011

November 15, 2024

This publication compares results from the 2022 and 2011 censuses, looking at how key health and socioeconomic indicators changed across…

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Income and Wealth
Reports

2024 Inequality Landscape

September 11, 2024

This report is the first major piece of analysis by the Scottish Health Equity Research Unit since its creation earlier…

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Income and Wealth
Research spotlight

The Health Impacts of Cash Transfers

August 29, 2024

Two new studies of the health impacts of cash transfers reach conflicting conclusions: are there lessons for Scottish efforts to…

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