This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society makes the case for strengthening sick pay for the self-employed. Self-employed workers account for 13 per cent of all people in work. There are more self-employed people than work in manufacturing, and four times as many as work in finance and insurance. Yet they have historically...

This report from UK think tank PolicyWISE proactively engages the public in actions to boost health and wellbeing for the short and longer term. Take Five to Age Well (Take Five) policy brief is aimed at policy makers from all four nations. This is a public health campaign and research project that proactively engages the...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance presents a roadmap forward for urgent, supportive action for the government’s growth and security agenda. Climate change impacts are already disrupting lives and undermining economic growth across the UK. Health warnings were issued during the June 2025 heatwave due to expected excess deaths, while millions of English...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice builds on their landmark report, to offer a new plan to all political parties. Few issues are as explosive in British politics as welfare reform. But just as the smell of cordite following the blazing row over winter fuel payments is wafting away, an...

This report from UK think tank PolicyWISE looks at different policy approaches that affect sexual and reproductive health procedures across the four nations of the UK. This quick-read policy brief from PolicyWISE presents the experiences of women who have experienced pain during sexual and reproductive health encounters. It highlights different policy approaches that affect the...

This report from UK think tank PBE explores low wellbeing in the UK today. What comprises a decent life? It’s a hard question to definitively answer, with any individual’s response likely to differ from their neighbour’s (and even from their own answer five years in the future). Money is, of course, an important factor, and...

This report from UK think tank the Fabian Society sets out a public health approach to gambling. Gambling is often seen as just another part of our cultural – and indeed physical – landscape. Our high streets host gambling shops, our sports teams advertise gambling companies, and our digital world offers us unlimited gambling options....

This report from UK think tank Localis argues that local authorities must now lead the response to tackling worklessness. Tackling worklessness, long a stated goal yet persistently unmet by government, has become a structural crisis demanding locally driven reform. With over nine million economically inactive working-age adults, the challenge stems from overlapping issues: long-term illness,...

This report from UK think tank IPPR examines barriers to social care reform. Adult social care services across England are struggling to keep up with increased demand, let alone improve. But failure is not an option. Every one of us, and those we love most, will rely on someone else’s care during our lives. Despite...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government examines the care gap in England. There exists a damaging geographical and demographic ‘care gap’ in England that means access to care for older adults is increasingly based not on need but on other factors – some perhaps less surprising, like local levels of deprivation...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation examines workers' views on health and employment in 2025. The UK workforce faces a complex web of health and employment challenges that could result in more people prematurely leaving the labour market. While Covid-19 may have accelerated this trend, the underlying drivers pre-date it – the...

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation puts the 2025 Spending Review into context. June 11th saw the Chancellor reveal the results of the first ‘zero-based’ review since 2008, the first stand-alone Spending Review since 2019, and the first three-year plan since 2021. It was the Government’s chance to say what its priorities...

This report from UK think tank the Work Foundation looks at supporting people with MS to thrive in and out of work. There are an estimated 150,000 people living with multiple sclerosis (MS). It is a condition that affects the central nervous system and can cause problems with movement, thinking and feeling. People’s experience of...

This report from UK think tank Re:State outlines a model that fundamentally changes the configuration of the modern hospital. As outlined in Hospital of the Future: A framing paper, hospitals are experiencing a fundamental crisis. Rising costs, falling productivity and performance, declining access and deteriorating patient satisfaction are all symptoms of a profound problem. The...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation explores minimum unit pricing for alcohol and the case for a windfall tax. Evidence shows that minimum unit pricing reduces alcohol harm. However, a key objection to the policy of setting a floor price for alcohol is that it unfairly creates a financial windfall for...