Some of those objectives are well within reach. Attendance is moving in the right direction, and the Department for Education has a route to further improvement, particularly through better data and ...

The Labour government inherited a system for supporting those who are homeless that is both financially unsustainable and failing those it is meant to help. Real-terms spending on homelessness has ...

Alex Thomas in quoted in the Financial Times on Antonia Romeo as cabinet secretary.

The government should back up its impressive savings and efficiencies figures by showing where they have come from The chancellor should commit to publishing the same level of detail on savings and ...

The Institute is a not for profit organisation, a registered charity (No: 1123926) and a company limited by guarantee (No: 6480524). The Institute employs about 50 staff based at its office in ...

In the final episode of our series, we explore lessons former mid-term transitions hold for Andy Burnham’s premiership – or future mid-term PMs.

Hannah became CEO of the Institute for Government in October 2022. She leads the Institute in its work to make government more effective. Prior to joining the Institute, Hannah was appointed secretary ...

The NHS is broken. That is no longer just the opinion of think tanks, the press and the public, but is now official government policy. 111 ‘Wes Streeting says NHS is broken as he announces pay talks ...

The new government has committed to being ‘mission-driven’, focusing its efforts on five key areas: growth, the NHS, clean energy, safer streets and opportunity. We now know these missions will be ...

The government has committed to tackling regional inequalities as part of its ambition to ‘level up’ different parts of the UK. This has led to renewed interest in the allocation of public spending ...

Tim Durrant and Sachin Savur say Keir Starmer's newly published ministerial code is a welcome step in the process of rebuilding trust Four months after entering Downing Street – and on a day when ...

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 ...