Reports

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at lessons from six case studies and other research on government data sharing during the pandemic. During the pandemic, the government created the Clinically Extremely Vulnerable People Service – which required sharing individual address and health information – in a matter of weeks. It...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at China and a triad of trade, diplomacy, and military relations. The UK has a unique post-Brexit opportunity to re-engage with its Commonwealth partners, forge new and exciting trading relationships – and where it has already done so, to build and capitalise on these with new security...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Progressive Policy looks at the impact of failing public services on health and productivity. New analysis by the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) highlights the impact in lost life years and years of good health of socioeconomic inequalities in employment, income, education, crime and housing. It...

This report from UK think tank IPPR looks at the risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal. The historical failure to sufficiently tackle the climate and ecological crisis could create consequences that challenge the ability of societies to tackle the root causes of this crisis. This is a doom loop:...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies looks at policy implementation and decision-making for vaccination in Vietnam. Policies that give priority to economic productivity disadvantage those who are not considered vital or essential from that perspective. The delegation of some of the vaccination access decisions to local authorities, for example village...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Welsh Affairs looks at the role of trade unions in helping rebalance the economy. Months of industrial action have put trade unions in the spotlight, but despite some bright spots the trade union movement in Wales has still experienced a long-term decline. Young workers are not joining...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at the United Kingdom and the Pacific. British interests in the Indo-Pacific have become increasingly threatened, through dangers to supply chains and displacement of British Nationals in the region. In turn, the UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt, as outlines in the Integrated Review, has led to...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at addressing the longstanding attainment gap in England's primary schools. England’s primary school system has a long-standing problem: each academic year thousands of pupils leave primary school without reaching expected standards in foundational skills. These children go on to secondary school ill-equipped to...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at alcohol and the Scottish economy. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank analyses the relationship between alcohol and the Scottish economy, as the Scottish Government is currently consulting on a range of regulations on alcohol marketing to reduce harmful drinking. Our analysis finds...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at role that political parties play through their influential constitutional reforms. Political parties are the “ghosts in the machine” of the UK constitution – and more attention should be paid to their role in reforming how it operates. This guest paper by Professor Tim...

This report from UK think tank CEPEO looks at consistency of school inspections, including how judgements vary across inspectors with different characteristics. School inspections are a common feature of education systems across the world. These involve trained professionals visiting schools and reaching a high-stakes judgement about the quality of education they provide. By their nature, school...

is report from UK think tank Onward provides a guide for local leaders to level up their communities. Levelling Up is a national mission. But much of the energy, insight and levers to make change are local. Onward’s Levelling Up In Practice programme brings together research from places across the country to understand common challenges...

This report from UK think tank Civitas looks at the prospect of regulation within English men’s football. This Civitas publication looks at the prospect of regulation within English men’s football, something that has a large impact on football fans and the local community. Aaryaman Banerji is a sports researcher at Civitas looking at how we...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at ethnic differences in use of financial products and services. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank looks at the reasons behind the ethnic gap in financial products uptake, as well as proposing recommendations on how to reduce the risk of disadvantage faced by...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies is a guide on systems thinking and practice in the context and needs of the UK's FCDO. The guide offers a common language and shared framing of systems thinking for FCDO and its partners. It explores what this implies for working practices, business processes...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at how the Global Minimum Corporate Tax Undermines the UK. The Adam Smith Institute’s latest paper, written by Dr. Tyler Goodspeed, calls for a rethink of the UK’s decision to rush implementation of a global minimum corporate tax rate. The UK’s decision to rush...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the role of England’s mayors in the climate transition. This report calls on the UK government to put England’s mayors at the heart of its net zero strategy and give England’s locally elected leaders the powers and funding to become trailblazers in transitioning...

This report from UK think tank The Sutton Trust looks at the impact of hours spent in early years provision on children's outcomes at age five. Several decades of research has found that early education and care can have a positive effect on children’s cognitive, behavioural and social outcomes, particularly if it is of high...

This report from UK think tank Centre for Cities looks at the UK’s army of hidden unemployed people. Cities Outlook 2023 finds that official unemployment figures mask an army of hidden workers in cities and large towns in the North of England in particular. This underscores once again the pressing need for a set of...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at what is driving reglobalization. The current pattern of economic integration and fracturing across different economies and sectors is best described as ‘reglobalization’. Globalization is far from finished, but is changing in nature through countries’ emphasis on stronger regional links and the formation of economic blocs...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at making sense of Hungary's and Serbia's Russia stance. In this report, Professor Dr Marlene Laruelle and Dr Helena Ivanov investigate the level and underlying causes of pro-Russian sentiment in Serbia and Hungary. Both countries have been noted for their approach to Russia’s invasion...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government is their annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service over the past year.  This is the 10th edition of Whitehall Monitor – our annual, data-based assessment of the UK civil service, how it has changed and performed over the past year, and its priorities...

This report from UK think tanks The Sutton Trust and CEPEO looks at the incidence of COVID-19 and long COVID among young people. This briefing, from the first wave of the COVID Social Mobility and Opportunities (COSMO) study, explores the incidence of COVID-19 and long COVID among young people, as well as how many young...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies is a practical guide to create a visual map of the key resources and assets in a community. This method enables participants to create a visual map of the key resources and assets in their community, organisation, workplace etc, that are important for their...

This report from UK think tank the Sutton Trust looks at how the ongoing cost of living crisis is impacting students. Students are known for making do on a tight budget. But those close margins make them particularly vulnerable to the rising cost of living. This new polling, conducted by Savanta for the Sutton Trust,...