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Participants
Dr Hannah Randolph (Economist, FAI)
Prof Mairi Spowage (Director, FAI)
Jack Evans (Senior Policy Advisor, JRF)
Time stamps
(0:22) Who wants to work across Scotland
(3:24) Child poverty and supporting parents into work
(8:09) Why focus on "people who want to work"?
(13:29) How we talk about labour market status
(19:26) Surveys and other sources of labour market information
(26:55) What's next?
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00:00:08 – 00:00:35
Introduction to podcast, guests, and research topic (community supervision & re-offending).00:00:35 – 00:01:24
Overview of pressures on the criminal justice system: court backlogs and causes.00:01:24 – 00:02:20
Prison overcrowding explained and current capacity issues.00:02:20 – 00:03:14
Early release schemes and their limited long-term impact on prison population.00:03:14 – 00:04:00
Future outlook and policy pressure (Institute for Government concerns).00:03:36 – 00:04:27
New sentencing bill: shift toward community supervision and reduced prison time.00:04:27 – 00:05:22
Lack of evidence on effectiveness of community supervision and motivation for study.00:05:22 – 00:06:28
Data challenges and introduction to MoJ “Data First” initiative and linked datasets.00:06:28 – 00:07:02
Scale and capability of the linked offender dataset.00:07:02 – 00:08:25
Why older data is used and need for causal evidence (bias in simple comparisons).00:08:25 – 00:10:20
Explanation of natural experiments vs randomized experiments.00:10:20 – 00:11:13
Introduction to the 2015 Offender Rehabilitation Act (ORA).00:11:13 – 00:13:02
Natural experiment setup: cutoff date creates comparable supervised vs unsupervised groups.00:13:02 – 00:14:21
Method: comparing re-offending outcomes across groups using linked data.00:14:21 – 00:15:46
What community supervision involves (probation, restrictions, rehabilitation focus).00:16:02 – 00:17:09
Main findings: supervision reduces re-offending (short-term impact).00:17:09 – 00:17:30
Long-term effects: persistent reduction in re-offending even after supervision ends.00:17:30 – 00:18:44
Who benefits most: stronger effects for first-time prisoners.00:18:44 – 00:19:27
Why effects fade over time and importance of supervision duration.00:19:27 – 00:21:00
Effects for repeat/prolific offenders and role of recall to prison (incapacitation effect).00:21:00 – 00:22:18
Behavioural mechanisms and role of recall threat.00:22:18 – 00:23:34
Context: high baseline re-offending rates; supervision helps but isn’t a silver bullet.00:23:34 – 00:25:37
Policy implications: supervision vs prison and impact on overcrowding.00:25:37 – 00:26:05
Long-term benefits via preventing repeat offending among first-timers.00:26:05 – 00:27:37
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In the final episode of our election analysis series, Mairi Spowage and João Sousa of the Fraser of Allander Institute and Ed Poole and Guto Ifan of the Wales Governance Centre come together to discuss what the results of the elections in Wales and Scotland mean for governing arrangements, and what the next steps are in the Senedd and Scottish Parliament sessions.
**This work is supported by the Nuffield Foundation. The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance social well-being. It funds and undertakes rigorous research, encourages innovation and supports the use of sound evidence to inform social and economic policy, and improve people’s lives. The Nuffield Foundation is the founder and co-funder of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. Find out more at: nuffieldfoundation.org.
The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.** -
**Please note that this recording is in Welsh - check out our other podcast episodes and our websites for analysis in English.**
This is a recording of the event held by the Wales Governance Centre in Bangor on 21 April, discussing the main talking points in the Senedd election.
**This work is supported by the Nuffield Foundation. The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance social well-being. It funds and undertakes rigorous research, encourages innovation and supports the use of sound evidence to inform social and economic policy, and improve people’s lives. The Nuffield Foundation is the founder and co-funder of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. Find out more at: nuffieldfoundation.org.
The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Foundation.** -
(00:00) Welcome and episode overview
(01:02) Meet Ed Roddis and Lesley Smillie
(03:44) What is the State of the State report?
(10:11) The big takeaway for Scotland in an election year
(11:32) Public priorities: cost of living, healthcare and immigration
(18:44) How Scotland compares with the rest of the UK
(21:06) Public satisfaction with services and pressure on the NHS
(29:14) The mood among public sector leaders
(36:19) Is there a real opportunity for public service reform?
(38:04) AI, digital transformation and the future of public services -
Timestamps
(0:06) Introductions
(1:27) The SNP price cap plan for 'essential' foods
(5:28) The campaign in Wales this week and the Welsh Lib Dems manifesto
(7:07) Tax policy and unwillingness to confront fiscal trade-offs
(11:20) The remaining Scottish manifestos from the week
(15:13) What's been left unsaid
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Timestamps:
(0:05) Introduction and the overall funding challenge
(3:30) The wider role of universities in local economies
(6:33) International students
(9:49) Difference in funding between Wales and the rest of the UK
(19:44) Proposals from the different parties so far
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Timestamps
(00:05) Introduction and the current state of childcare policy in Wales
(4:14) Why the government intervenes in this area
(7:53) Differences between Welsh provision with the rest of the UK
(14:41) Trade-offs between universal and more targeted approaches
(19:04) The effect of policy objectives on childcare policy design
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Participants
Prof Stephen Sinclair, GCU & SPIRU
Hannah Randolph, FAI
Spencer Thompson, FAITime stamps
(1:10) Latest child poverty statistics
(4:45) Changes to the Family Resources Survey
(12:00) Final child poverty delivery plan
(16:10) Child poverty targets
(23:20) More on data revisions
(25:30) Scale of actions in the delivery plan and distance to the 2030 targets
(30:15) A time for optimism -
Timestamps:
(0:06) Evolution of funding during the last Parliamentary term
(7:13) Income tax policy and divergence from the rest of the UK
(13:39) Public sector pay and pressure on the Scottish Budget
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