A decade of cuts and freezes to social services, a dysfunctional housing market with seemingly insurmountable barriers to ownership and the current cost-of-living crisis will have a long-lasting consequences to people across all income groups and parts of the country. Our panel debates the ever-growing cost of running a family and household, against a backdrop of limited affordable housing, a social care crisis and generational inequality.

Chaired by Bethan Staton ( Financial Times ), with Oona Goldsworthy (Brunelcare), Stephen Machin (London School of Economics), Claire Ralph (Business West) and Vicky Spratt (author and journalist, i paper). Photo Credit: Bhagesh Sachania Photography