Greater London Authority (GLA)
The GLA is a strategic regional authority, with powers over transport, policing, economic development, and fire and emergency planning. Three functional bodies — Transport for London, the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority — are responsible for delivery of services in these areas.
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More than just education: A Participatory Action Research project on adult education in London
Greater London Authority (GLA)This is a Toynbee Hall report on adult education commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) to inform the preparation of the Mayor’s Skills Roadmap for London. For this project Toynbee Hall worked with a group of peer researchers who had lived experience of being part of one or more of the priority groups identified by the GLA as having the most to gain from adult education. Over the course of five months peer researchers co-des... - Updated 3 years ago
Afghan Emergency Response Survey
Greater London Authority (GLA)This dataset presents results of a four-weekly questionnaire sent to a cohort of organisations working directly with Afghan communities in London. The first two surveys, beginning October 2021, were run as pilots to help inform our approach and aimed to engage voluntary, community and faith sector organisations. Wave three, to be launched in January 2022, will be open to a wider group of stakeholders and focus specifically on organisati... - Updated 3 years ago
Green Skills Adult Education Provision in London
Greater London Authority (GLA)The GLA commissioned independent research into the green skills which are expected to grow in demand as London moves to net zero. It uses GLA Economics’ Identifying Green Occupations to identify green skills currently being funded through the Adult Education Budget (AEB), along with relevant Level 4 and 5 qualifications and apprenticeship data. The report includes interviews with employers and providers which capture some of key chall... - Updated 3 years ago
The experience of children and families living in insecure private rented sector accommodation
Greater London Authority (GLA)This report presents the findings of an exploratory qualitative research project carried out with children and families living in insecure private rented sector accommodation. The aims of the research were to understand the impact of living in the private rented sector on a range of areas of children's lives, including education, health and their sense of security. The findings of this project were used by the GLA Housing Team in develo... - Updated 3 years ago
Understanding serious violence among young people in London
Greater London Authority (GLA)This page contains analyses of serious youth violence conducted by the GLA’s Strategic Crime Analysis team and MOPAC Evidence and Insight Team to inform work to prevent and reduce serious violence affecting young people in London. The page contains 4 separate analyses. The first two analyses in 2018 were produced in support of an over-arching report ‘Progressing a Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention and Reduction’. The third c... - Created 3 years ago
Health and Social Care Levy - Incidence on London Households
Greater London Authority (GLA)This note sets out GLA Economics’ illustrative estimate of the incidence on London households of the planned introduction of the Health and Social Care Levy from 2023/24 (preceded by an interim increase in national insurance contributions (NICs) in 2022/23). - Created 3 years ago
Covid-19 and financial hardship in London
Greater London Authority (GLA)At the end of 2020 the GLA commissioned the University of Essex to analyse the impact on Londoners of the Covid-19 crisis, of the emergency policies put in place since March 2020 and of some counterfactual policy options, including the continuation of the £20 weekly uplift in Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit. The researchers used UKMOD, the UK tax-benefit microsimulation model, to conduct their analysis. - Updated 3 years ago
Researching Community Collecting During COVID-19
Greater London Authority (GLA)The Community Engagement team at the Greater London Authority (GLA) commissioned this report to identify and examine past and present projects which involve collecting Londoners experiences of COVID-19 through a variety of creative and non-traditional materials. The purpose of the report is to: provide an overview of projects and activities which record Londoners COVID-19 stories and experiences. outline who is responsible for th... - Updated 4 years ago
Social Integration Headline Measures
Greater London Authority (GLA)The Mayor is committed to measuring social integration in London. Providing evidence-based analysis of the state of social integration will allow him to shine a light on the whole city. Accompanying the Social Integration Strategy published in March 2018, the Mayor published a set of measures tracking social integration in London. These measures were selected from existing high-quality datasets, such as large-scale central government su... - Updated 4 years ago
Learning lessons from previous pandemic-related and other shocks
Greater London Authority (GLA)The purpose of this report is to collate literature on the health, social, community, economic and environmental impacts of epidemics, pandemics and other shocks that have had large-scale impacts on different countries and cities internationally. The literature review will help to answer the question, “What could an effective, evidence-based, long-term plan to drive London’s recovery from the impacts of the global pandemic, COVID-19, lo...