Reports

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at Housing First for domestic abuse survivors. The number of people forced into homelessness by an abusive or violent partner has surged by almost a fifth since the pandemic. According to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between July and September...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust explores the impact of parental and caring responsibilities on surgical careers. Support for working parents is vital for ensuring staff currently employed by the NHS achieve work–life balance, particularly amidst a workforce crisis driven by poor retention as well as recruitment. The Royal College of Surgeons...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at the Conservative case for regulating freedom in a failed market. In the Conservative political tradition, state regulation is often viewed in binary terms – its presence an intrusion, and its absence a mark of freedom. This has certainly been the case in the...

This report from UK think tank the Legatum Institute analyses the performance of 167 nations across 67 policy-focused elements. The Legatum Prosperity Index™ analyses the performance of 167 nations across 67 policy-focused elements, measured by 300 country-level indicators. The Index enables us to construct a thoroughly comprehensive picture of prosperity, across its institutional, economic, and...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice looks at a new bill to tackle slavery in Britain. The new paper from our joint modern slavery unit ‘Slavery at Home: a new bill to tackle slavery in Britain’ recommends four ways to strengthen the modern slavery system. In 2015 the Modern Slavery...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs looks at whether digital platforms be required to fund news publishers. A new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs warns government against intervening in the relationship between digital platforms and legacy media. Breaking the News?, by IEA Head of Public Policy Matthew Lesh,...

This report from UK think tank The King's Fund looks at commissioning quality end-of-life care. Increasingly people are dying at home rather than in hospital and this trend is set to continue. This raises questions about whether there are the right staff with the right skills to support people in their home at the end...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Cities looks at the UK’s 4 million missing homes. Britain has a severe housing crisis, especially in the most prosperous places in the Greater South East. Across England, the average house costs more than ten times the average salary, vacancy rates are below 1 per cent,...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for European Reform looks at how the war in Ukraine has unfolded and gains and losses.  When Vladimir Putin sent Russian forces across the Ukrainian border on February 24th 2022, he clearly expected a quick victory with limited if any negative consequences for Russia. He probably believed...

This report from UK think tank Localis looks at what percentage of private homes must be provided to produce the number of affordable public rental homes needed. Just short of 250,000 new council homes were built in 1953. Housing minister Harold MacMillan permitted local authorities to build as many homes as there were applicants on...

This report from UK think tank Bright Blue looks at key changes in government policy to increase housing supply and reduce carbon emissions from new homes. The UK is facing both a housing and climate crisis. We are not building enough homes. And the houses we do build are not green enough to support this...

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...