Centre for Research in Social Policy
| Abbreviation | CRSP |
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| Formation | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Loughborough University |
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Official language
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English |
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Director
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Donald Hirsch |
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Staff
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8 |
| Website | crsp.ac.uk |
The Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) is a self-funding research centre based within the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands, England.
CRSP conducts research in the field of social policy and aims to improve the quality and flow of information on which policy decisions are made.
The current Director of CRSP is Donald Hirsch.
The Centre specialises in applied social policy research and policy analysis on issues around minimum income, poverty, and living standards. CRSP’s core research programme is the Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom (MIS).
Minimum Income Standard. Minimum Income Standard (MIS) refers to how much disposable income households need in order to achieve an adequate standard of living.
CRSP regularly conducts a calculation of this standard for UK households. The MIS research and its analysis and dissemination is funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. MIS takes into account differences in household needs and in social opinion of what a decent standard of living is. The calculation of the MIS is based on detailed research with groups of members of the public. Experts on nutrition and heating are consulted to ensure budgets provide adequately for healthy living. Calculations are updated annually, based on inflation, and reviewed every two years, based on new research, to reflect changing social norms.
Projects adopting the MIS method are currently being undertaken in the Republic of Ireland, France, Japan, Portugal and Austria. CRSP is now exploring the use of MIS in Mexico, South Africa and Thailand.
CRSP provides a Minimum Income Calculator.
Calculation of the Living Wage. MIS is the basis for calculating the Living Wage rate used by the Living Wage Foundation as the basis for accrediting Living Wage employers. Up to 2015, CRSP calculated the out-of-London rate, based on the wage that households needed in order to have a minimum acceptable standard of living. In 2016, the Living Wage Commission endorsed a new, independent method for setting rates in London and in the rest of the UK, using MIS to measure living costs in both cases.
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