The Covid-19 pandemic is a major health crisis. Covid-related policies, guidance and behaviours have resulted in changes to our lives that go well beyond the health sphere. The impact to our...
Wellbeing, Work and Business
How can businesses improve wellbeing, through employment practices as well as the wider impact on society? In this meeting we heard from speakers who shared their insights and experience on the...
Implementing wellbeing: What we learn from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and New Zealand
In this meeting we will hear from speakers who have been leading the implementation of a wellbeing agenda across the UK.
A Spending Review to Increase Wellbeing: an open letter to the Chancellor, 2019
The report launch of A Spending Review to Increase Wellbeing: an open letter to the Chancellor, written by Lord Richard Layard.
Wellbeing and the Spending Review 2019
Date: Tuesday 5th MarchChair: Chris Ruane The 2019 Spending Review presents an opportunity for the UK to be explicit about it’s goals and allocate spending accordingly. The APPG on Wellbeing...
Measuring Children’s Wellbeing
Tuesday 18th December 2018Chair: Chris Ruane This meeting is an opportunity to review why measuring children’s wellbeing is important and what impact a systematic approach could have on policy making...
How should we measure national success?
1st March 2016 Chair: Mark Easton, BBC News Home Editor This event brought together parliamentarians and key players from across civil society and the business world to discuss the...
Hustings on wellbeing
24th March 2015 This event brought together candidates from political parties to set out their party’s approach to wellbeing, and to answer questions from APPG members as well as the public audience...
APPG report launch: Wellbeing in four policy areas
14th October 2014 This event launched the report resulting from the inquiry on mechanisms to increase wellbeing without increasing public expenditure. Christine Berry, report author, introduced the...
APPG Inquiry, Evidence session 5: Gus O’Donnell
9th June 2014 Our fifth and final evidence session took a step back from policy detail to explore overarching questions about the role of well-being in policy, and the challenges that must be...