Reports

Mental health conditions have slowly been increasing among young people in the UK. Between 2012-13 and 2022-23, incidences of mental health conditions for under 25s rose by 10 percentage points (Stark et al., 2024). A meta-analysis of 11 high-income countries indicated that one in eight children have mental disorders…

CSPG submitted evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty and Inequality’s inquiry into young people who are Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET). Our submission (p.28) argued that the rise in the number of NEETs has a biological dimension often missing from policy design…

Disabled people are protected from discrimination by the Equality Act from day one of employment, yet many disabled people report that this protection feels theoretical, accessible only through exhausting, precarious, adversarial processes…

In November 2025, the Government published its Replacing animals in science strategy, aiming to ‘create a revolutionary research and innovation system that replaces animals with alternative methods wherever possible’, bringing ‘clear benefits for animal welfare and a host of economic and scientific impacts’. Commissioned by Lush, this business case identifies some of those benefits by examining the UK’s Non-Animal New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) sector…