Social care

What does local government do, why are councils under financial pressure, and how might reform change the future of local services?

The adult social care sector in England faces long-standing and well-documented workforce challenges.

IFS Senior Research Economist Kate Ogden writes in Municipal Journal about what the 2025 Spending Review will mean for public services and councils.

An evaluation of Sure Start’s impacts on education, health, absences, special educational needs, crime and social care, plus a cost–benefit analysis.

A government with a big majority should have had the political will to do more than just set up another review.

In this online event we presented findings on the effect of Sure Start on a range of outcomes throughout childhood and adolescence.

We set out the major challenges facing the adult social care system in England and explore potential future developments for the sector.

The new Chancellor faces a difficult fiscal inheritance. Her choices on tax and spending at this first Budget could define the rest of the parliament.

The next government is likely to face some of the most difficult economic and fiscal choices the UK has faced outside of pandemics and major crises.

Recently, the government announced record net migration figures. Paul Johnson speaks to Madeleine Sumption, a political scientist, to get the facts.

In this episode, we take a look at the state of the NHS across a range of areas.