For decades, governments of all stripes have promised to give children a better, healthier start to life. But despite this – and some notable policy successes – the UK continues to fall short on ...

The UK’s competition framework — and its regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority — has struggled to prevent rising market concentration and stagnant productivity. At the same time, the UK ...

Reliance on hotels has led to asylum accommodation and support costs soaring from £17,000 per person in 2019/20 to £41,000 in 2023/24 Muhammad said: “Asyl ...

An alarming number of children are missing out on the social and educational benefits of school. A crisis of lost learning is sweeping across schools in England. Children cannot learn if they are not ...

The UK government is producing England’s first integrated national transport strategy. In this blog, we set out IPPR’s seven tests to judge if the strategy seizes the opportunity to create a fairer, ...

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has outlined a new approach to modelling the growth impacts of public investment. Unlike before, this allows them to better reflect the economic benefits of ...

Asylum accommodation costs have soared in recent years, with billions of pounds being spent on housing people in inadequate conditions, which is both a waste of public funds and a failure to meet ...

The newly elected Labour government has picked up where the previous government left off, by committing to continuing the plans to roll out ‘free’ hours and develop a stronger childcare system more ...

English local government faces major reshaping. England’s new mayors will join a group of highly visible leaders. But large-scale mayoral authorities are unfamiliar in England, and they will need to ...

Poor polling and local election results for Labour are part of western trend in which populists now claim a larger share of the vote (30 per cent) than the centre-left (24 per cent) David Miliband ...

Excluded children are the most vulnerable: twice as likely to be in the care of the state, four times more likely to have grown up in poverty, seven times more likely to have a special educational ...

Leading figures from health, politics and wider society propose most ambitious blueprint for the nation's health since the Beveridge report A comprehensive plan for a modern 21st century health ...