New childcare entitlements have proven popular – meaning spending from 2026 onwards could be £1 billion higher than ...

The next few years are going to be very tight for school budgets and forecasting anything more than a real-terms freeze is ...

Which public services are the relative winners and losers from Rachel Reeves’ multi-year 2025 Spending Review?

You might not have gathered it from the Chancellor’s speech, but there were some hard choices made in yesterday’s spending review. After all, despite some of the rather odd recent claims, neither the ...

Rachel Reeves is to allocate between competing priorities with her spending review, and a 2.5 per cent rise for health could ...

The income threshold below which pensioners will be eligible for the winter fuel payment (WFP) is set to rise.

The UK state pension system faces significant challenges given the country’s ageing population, but it is crucial for ...

We show that remaining in work has significant positive causal effects on the average cognition and physical mobility of older women in England.

We consider recent trends in health and social care productivity and the scope for future improvements.

The Crown Court case backlog has doubled since 2019 and continues to grow. We explore whether falling productivity is part of ...

Expanded access to free school meals will benefit 1.7 million children in the long run, but existing transitional protections ...