Includes the full text of many reports in social welfare.

Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that uses systematic reviews to look at the effects of social policy interventions in areas including crime , education and international development. They are published in the open access journal Campbell Systematic Reviews

Project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Social Care Research (SSCR).It aims to provide a unified source of access to data from over 50 sources in the UK enabling easier comparison & processing of data

Evidence for Policy & Practice Information. Excellent source of systematic reviews & research syntheses for a multitude of social science and health topics.

Very active research program based at ISER (University of Essex), offering tax-benefit microsimulation models for the EU & the UK that enables researchers to calculate the effects of taxes/benefits on household incomes and work incentives for each country and for the EU

Offers an historical approach to public policy.

Many free publications. Country profiles.

Research centre at Goteborg University offers free access to its cross-national time series dataset on social policy. Data for 40 countries from 1946, with an emphasis on social policy in relation to quality of government.

High profile organisation aiming to influence UK public policy to benefit those on low & middle income.

Extremely useful datasets on social protection and benefits. 34 countries covered (mainly Europe and N. America). Registration required. Can be searched as part of the wider Demscore database, which seeks to bring together harmonised data on a variety of social, environmental & political areas

Useful listing maintained by LSE Library for keeping up to date with government & other publications.

Successor to Institute for Community Studies (1954-), focusing on community development, social change, youth, inequalities.