Monthly Archives: March 2019

By Lewis Lloyd

On 23 June 2016, the British public voted, narrowly, to leave the EU. The momentous decision set the UK on…

By Joshua Pritchard; Rose Lasko-Skinner

This report provides an overview of public service commissioning in England. By examining the complex systems used by central government…

By Nicole Gicheva; Nigel Keohane; Scott Corfe

Done right, apprenticeships can deliver a significant boost to the UK economy by providing the technical skills that it needs…

By Ben Glover

Will it ever be possible for the Department for Work and Pensions to engage effectively with ‘harder-to-help’ groups? That was…

By Katie Whitehouse

This paper evaluates the market-based approaches adopted in the MEI projects in Kenya and Burkina Faso. It articulates how such…

By Akash Paun; Tess Kidney Bishop; Lucy Valsamidis; Alasdair de Costa

Twenty years after devolution, Ministers in Scotland and Wales say they are ignored by the Government in Westminster, and this…

By Adam Corlett

In 2017, Members of the Scottish Parliament unanimously voted the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 into law, creating targets for…

By Neil Amin Smith; Tom Harris; David Phillips

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the question of whether additional taxes should be devolved to English…

By Nick Maxwell

Public–private financial information-sharing partnerships have become increasingly useful in understanding and mitigating economic crime. This Occasional Paper examines how these…