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What have we learned about the experience of disabled people?

Categories: Data, Health, ONS, Population, Public Policy, Wellbeing
Two adults are helping a child work on a laptop

Tomorrow (3 December) is the UN International Day for Persons with Disabilities.  With the most recent estimates from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) putting the proportion of disabled people in the UK at 22% in 2021 (up from 19% a decade ago), this is a sizeable and very diverse group. Here, Helen Colvin and Josephine Foubert from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) look at some of the work we have been doing recently to give insight into the lives of disabled children and adults.

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Filling in the gaps: Introducing our new quarterly public policy analysis review

Categories: Office for National Statistics, Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis Quarterly Review

Some recent ground-breaking work from ONS on topics including deaths of homeless people and the impact of migration has been the result of the new ONS centres for Public Policy Analysis. Here, Liz McKeown provides an update on the work of these centres and their achievements so far.

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