The most comprehensive stocktake of the Labour government’s progress on public services since the 2024 general election. The government must better measure success across its school priorities and set ...

The IfG’s verdict on the government’s goals on attainment and absence, teacher workforce, SEND reform, schools funding, and ...

John Healey's first budget as chancellor will be the biggest indication yet of the priorities of Andy Burnham's government.

The Labour party conference saw the PM set an ambitious direction for government. The new PM will have to prioritise to make progress on social care during this parliament. There is no reason to delay ...

Over the last 14 years, Conservative-led governments oversaw the hollowing out of public services. The effects of this, in particular the deep budget cuts to some services in the first half of the ...

Andy Burnham made an impassioned case for adult social care reform in his conference speech, drawing on his family’s own experience and telling care workers help was coming. But despite the rhetoric, ...

The Labour conference is a chance for Andy Burnham to show he has the skill to build a consensus for – and then deliver – lasting change. It would be easy for Andy Burnham to use his first conference ...

After attending a marathon five party conferences, Hannah White identifies the key themes in the views of UK government emerging from these idiosyncratic annual gatherings of our political classes ...

Keir Starmer avoided a Privileges Committee inquiry, but as politics changes it seems likely that parliament's transparency mechanisms will be used more frequently. MPs have rejected the idea of the ...

Patrick McAlary and Sachin Savur dig into the data to reveal what we know so far about this government’s use of special advisers Labour appointed a whole host of new special advisers (spads) after ...

Stuart is an associate director working in the Institute’s public services team. Before working at the Institute, he was a management accountant. Stuart’s work focuses on the NHS, adult social care, ...