Public Health Wales has joined forces with the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales to look at what challenges and opportunities the future may hold for creating a more equal Wales.

Through exploring three key trends, climate change, changes to how we work and demographic change, the new report, Inequality in A Future Wales, identifies actions to prevent socio-economic inequalities from being carried into the future.

Action on the report’s findings should include decision-makers integrating equality considerations into policy development across the board, as is set out in the Well-being of Future Generations Act, say its authors.

The report finds that making the best possible decisions when tackling future trends will require policy-makers to think about the long-term and involve the people and communities who will be affected.