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.
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Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly
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 ...
The government yesterday made the unexpected announcement that the election of four new regional mayors planned for 2026 would be delayed until 2028. Its justification is that local government ...
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 ...
With the 2025 budget just days away, this Ministers Reflect report on the Treasury offers candid insights from former Treasury ministers – including four chancellors in Jeremy Hunt, Philip Hammond, ...
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 ...
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, ...
This report sets out the story of how the roll-out of Universal Credit is being completed, nearly nine years late and 15 years after it was first announced, and shared the lessons for government it ...
This explainer is no longer being updated. Why are there four different health services in the UK? In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the four health systems of ...
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 ...
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