Insecure lives and the policy disconnect: How multiple insecurities affect Levelling Up and what joined-up policy can do to help

引言数以百万计的英国居民正在为金钱、住房、健康和护理责任等多重问题而担忧。个人的不安全感可能会积聚并结合在一起。他们可能会阻止家庭利用他们的机会，包括初级教育、成人技能培训和工作机会，这些都是升级的目标。它们可能会损害人们的福祉，限制生产率。感受到的不安全感可能会对其他类型的不利因素产生不同的心理和行为影响。缺乏安全感可能意味着一些人可能无法从升级中受益，升级可能无法充分发挥其潜力。政策背景：过去许多当地的增长和重建项目非常成功，但许多项目并未达到所有目标，一些所谓的“留守”地区和所谓的“难以触及”的群体取得进展更加困难。多重不安全感可能提供了部分解释。随着时间的推移，一些关键的个人不安全感越来越普遍。研究问题我们的两个主要研究问题是：1.人们在一个地方的多重不安全感的经历如何影响他们参与升级并从升级中受益的能力？2.政策和政策制定者如何减少不安全感，并更好地联合起来，以改善幸福感、机会和升级？此外，我们想知道有多少人经历了多重不安全感，以什么组合，他们在哪里，以及对那些经历过这些不安全感的人意味着什么？多重不安全感的亲身体验是什么，这些风险牵涉到哪些政策和利益相关者，他们可以共同做些什么来降低生命风险并帮助升级？研究方法我们将重点关注某些不安全因素(粮食不安全、债务、收入波动、被驱逐或失去住房、健康和护理责任问题)以及与升级相关的结果(小学成绩、技能、就业和福祉)。在十个月的时间里，我们将使用混合的方法探索多种不安全，包括：-与政策制定者讨论多种不安全，以及他们知道和想要了解什么，-对个人和多种不安全的证据审查，它们的流行和影响，以及解决多种不安全的有希望的方法，-使用了解协会并辅之以其他来源，对英国各地的相同主题进行量化分析，-新的定性数据收集，包括研究人员与24-30人讨论他们在英国三个不同地区经历多次不安全的经历，影响，以及谁可能能够缓解这些不安全，与一位艺术家一起记录反应，引发新的洞察力，以及其他视觉和故事方法-根据案例研究故事创建的人物角色，与政策制定者和被确定为潜在“风险影响者”的人讨论他们可以为人们的生活做些什么。我们已经考虑并试图减轻风险和伦理担忧。我们有一些证据表明政策制定者和实践者对我们的想法感兴趣，尽管它的起源不允许进行全面的咨询。这一呼吁的输出和传播需要思想领导力，我们希望通过开发和证明一个新的跨学科概念来提供这一点，即“多重不安全”。我们已经在项目中加入了向一些政策制定者传播的内容。我们还将为政策制定者制作最终演示文稿；最终报告和政策简报；地图和其他视觉和故事信息；学术研讨会、会议论文；工作论文和期刊文章；以及存放在英国数据档案馆的材料。我们希望看到，作为我们工作的结果，在概念的使用上有所增长，在我们的工作中引用我们的工作，在提升政策方面有所改变，在实践中也有所改变。

IntroductionMillions of UK residents are worrying about multiple issues such as money, housing, health and caring responsibilities. Individual insecurities may build up and combine. They may prevent households using their opportunities, including the primary education, adult skills training and work opportunities which Levelling Up aims to provide. They may harm well-being, and limit productivity. Perceived insecurities may have different psychological and behavioural effects to other kinds of disadvantages. Insecurities may mean some people may not be able to benefit from Levelling Up, and Levelling Up may not be able to achieve its full potential.Policy background: Many past local growth and regeneration projects have been very successful, but many have not met all their goals, and progress has been more difficult for some so-called 'left behind' areas and so-called 'hard to reach' groups of people. Multiple insecurities may provide a partial explanation. Some key individual insecurities have grown in prevalence over time. The research questionsOur two main research questions are: 1. How do people's experiences of multiple insecurities in a place impact their ability to participate in and benefit from Levelling Up?2. How can policies and policymakers reduce insecurities and join-up better to improve well-being, opportunity and Levelling Up? In addition, we want to know how many people experience multiple insecurities, in what combinations, where are they, and what are the implications for those who experience them? And what is the lived and felt experience of multiple insecurities, what policies and stakeholders are implicated in these risks, and what can they do together to de-risk lives and aid Levelling Up? Research methodsWe will focus on certain insecurities (food insecurity, debt, income fluctuations, eviction or loss of housing, problems with health and caring responsibilities), and outcomes relevant to Levelling Up (performance at primary school, skills, employment and wellbeing). Over ten months, we will explore multiple insecurities using mixed methods, including:-Discussion with policymakers about multiple insecurities, and what they know and want to learn about them,-Evidence reviews of individual and multiple insecurities, their prevalence and impacts, and of promising approaches in addressing multiple insecurities,-Quantitative analysis on the same topics across the UK using Understanding Society supplemented by other sources,-New qualitative data collection, which will involve researchers talking with 24-30 people experiencing multiple insecurities in three diverse areas in England about their lived experience of insecurities, the effects, and who might be able to mitigate them, with an artist drawing alongside to record responses and to elicit new insights, and other visual and story methods,-Discussion with policymakers and people identified as potential 'risk influencers' on what they could do to 'derisk' people's lives, based on personas created from case study stories.We have considered and tried to mitigate risks, and ethical concerns. We have some evidence of policymaker and practitioner interest in our ideas, although its origins did not allow comprehensive consultation.Outputs and disseminationThe call demands thought leadership, and we hope to provide this through developing and evidencing a new interdisciplinary concept, 'multiple insecurity'. We have built dissemination to some policymakers into the project. We will also produce final presentations to policymakers; a final report and policy briefs; mapping, and other visual and story information; academic seminars, conference papers; working papers and journal articles; and material for deposit with UK Data Archive. We hope to see growth in the use of the concept, citation of our work, some changes in Levelling Up policy and some changes in practice, as a result of our work.