This report from UK think tank City-REDI aims to inform the design of effective place-based innovation strategies by identifying key challenges and opportunities. This evidence review, by Dr Chloe Billing, synthesises key research and policy questions related to place-based innovation, focusing on strengthening local innovation ecosystems across the UK. It examines national and local innovation...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how the government can extend devolution to the whole of England. After a decade of devolution, a dozen English regions are now led by mayors who, in partnership with local government, control key economic powers and budgets. But devolution has unfolded unevenly and...

This report from UK think tank Power to Change offers detailed guidance for the Government on how to make a Community Right to Buy work for everyone. Across the country communities are being shut out as buildings are boarded up, destroyed or sold to developers and turned into spaces that fail to serve the needs...

This report from UK think tank Localis looks at getting to grips with whole place transformation. Driven by the dynamics of a new political cycle, we are on the edge of a major shift in the way we go about delivering local public services. The circumstances call for a reform agenda encompassing the positive hopes...

This report from UK think tank City-REDI seeks to provide local governments with the evidence to make better policy decisions. There is increasing concern about the financial viability of some local authorities with estimates by the Local Government Association (LGA) suggesting that councils in England are facing a funding gap of £4 billion. Councils have...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund records lessons from the health care response to the Grenfell Tower fire. The fire in Grenfell Tower in June 2017 was a preventable tragedy that claimed 72 lives. The event has had a devastating impact, not just in terms of the number of deaths but also...

This report from UK think tank Pro Bono Economics looks at children's services spending from 2011 - 2023. Council spending on children’s services has now reached a tipping point. For the first time, more was spent on residential care placements than early intervention services. This poses a major challenge for central and local governments, as...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at ensuring fairness in council tax collection. In 2021, debt advisers and enforcement agencies – convened by the Centre for Social Justice – came together in partnership to create the Enforcement Conduct Board (ECB), a new voluntary oversight body. Since then, the Board...

This report from UK think tank Re:State focuses on three broad factors involved in people's attitudes to vaccination — confidence, complacency and convenience. Vaccines play a vital role in preventing disease and allowing people to live healthy lives. After clean water, they are the most effective public health intervention in the world. However, even before...

This report from UK think tank City-REDI aims to capture learning and early impacts of the activities supported by Partnerships for People and Place funding in East Birmingham. This evaluative assessment has been undertaken by City-REDI and the School of Education based at the University of Birmingham. It aims to capture learning and early impacts...

This report from UK think tank Future Governance Forum offers a new framework for inclusive local growth and national renewal. Published in partnership with Metro Dynamics, Impactful Devolution 01 offers a programme of initiatives that would help deliver the government’s ambitious missions and drive local growth in every corner of the UK. Written by Metro...

This report from UK think tank EDSK discusses why post-18 education in England is still broken and how to fix it. Our post-18 education system will never reach its full potential in terms of driving economic growth and productivity if full-time university degrees continue to be placed on a pedestal above other qualifications and courses....

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government examines the public services priorities for the new Labour government. This report from the Institute for Government and Nuffield Foundation reveals that the government’s inheritance on public services is extremely precarious. Most services are performing worse now than they were in 2010 or before the...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at the UK's history of bad planning policy. With a new administration in power, and planning reform firmly on the agenda, Sam Watling writes about what we can learn from the long history of Britain’s planning policy. Since 1947, and the passage of the...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government will look at how to start fixing the problems at the heart of the criminal justice system. Prisons are in a profound state of crisis. The Prison Governors’ Association warned last week that prisons in England and Wales are just days away from running out...