The UK’s digital divide

The UK’s digital divide

In 2013 the UK Government launched its ‘digital by default’ strategy and now, central and local government mostly operate a self-service online model. In the context of austerity, this makes sense completely, especially as 9 out of 10 households have...
Breastfeeding friendly?

Breastfeeding friendly?

We’ve just completed a piece of insight around infant feeding and I wanted to share this video from spoken word poet Holly McNish, that expresses how crazy it is that the biggest barrier to breastfeeding in this particular locality was feeling uncomfortable...
C is for carer.

C is for carer.

Having worked on an insight project on the subject of unpaid carers, I was keen to watch the Panorama double bill last week ‘Crisis in Care’. Bleak viewing indeed and a sad reminder of the human costs of austerity. We spent considerable time looking at...

GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation

Four years in the making, the General Data Protection Regulation was adopted by the EU in May 2016 and it comes into force on 25th May 2018. For a while, it wasn’t clear what the impact of Brexit would be, but now we know – according to the Information Commissioner’s...