Reports

This report from UK think tank CEPEO looks at the disruption caused to pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities by Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profoundly disruptive impact on education. Pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), whose inclusion was already a challenge before the pandemic, are at risk from being...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Development Studies looks at delivering affordable, nutritious food to low-income communities. Yet food systems are under threat from multiple stressors. During the Covid-19 pandemic, government support was directed at maintaining business activity, so understanding how this affected small food businesses offers insights for future policy design....

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at reforming the Department for Transport. This report proposes a number of reforms to improve the efficiency and value for money of the Department for Transport. This paper is part of the Adam Smith Institute’s “Reforming the Civil Service” series. The Department for Transport...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at vote-trading as a widespread practice in Nigeria. Vote-trading has become a widespread practice in Nigeria, where democracy has struggled to be fully consolidated due to the country’s complex political landscape and its entrenched corrupt political class. Where acute socio-economic hardship persists, vote-selling traps citizens in...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at democratic evolution, national identity and political partisanship in South Korea. Academic and policy analysts are sharply divided over the strength and durability of democracy in South Korea. The political system nominally assures a reliable and representative process. But divisive identity politics, mass protest and the...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how to ensure the FCO is capable of responding to the war in Ukraine and future crises. How should the Foreign Office change now? assesses the impact of a morale-damaging merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International...

This report from the Work Foundation looks at removing barriers to training for people on universal credit. Many people who receive Universal Credit (UC) face conditionality requirements which can impact on their ability to take part in training activity. Through qualitative interviews, this research explored how the training aspirations of people on UC are influenced...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at experiences of in-work poverty in London. This report from Social Market Foundation think-tank examines experience of in-work poverty in London Working lives calls attention to the experience of in-work poverty in London, what drives it, and the impact it has on people (and...

This report from UK think tank the IIED presents an overview of the nature of loss and damage risks affecting low-income countries. This paper presents a detailed overview of the nature of loss and damage risks affecting low-income countries, marginalised groups and people living in poverty in the global South, and how they might be...

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society looks at the threat posed by radiological terrorism to the public, the economy and the environment. The report addresses the threat posed by radiological terrorism to the public, the economy, the environment, and the ecological systems across the globe. It also assesses the illicit transnational...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at the economic effects of corporate tax reform in the UK. This report argues that reversing the corporation tax hike and replacing the super-deduction would have significant positive impacts on growth, investment and wages. In 2023, the UK’s corporate income tax rate is scheduled...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at how universities could do more to track and prevent homelessness amongst students. This report argues universities should do more to track and prevent homelessness among their students and could play a wider role in supporting efforts to end all forms of homelessness. It says universities have...

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation looks at the impact of childcare costs on those on lower incomes. We’ve published the further analysis of the childcare crisis and its impact on low-income households, for a cross-party commission on childcare led by Siobhain McDonagh MP and John Penrose MP. Childcare costs in...

This report from UK think tank the Adam Smith Institute looks at reforming the Ministry of Defence. The Adam Smith Institute’s latest discussion paper, written by Tim Ambler, proposes a number of reforms to improve the efficiency and value for money of the Ministry of Defence This paper is part of the Adam Smith Institute’s...

This report from UK think tank Green Alliance looks at skilled work in a low carbon energy system. Accelerating the transition to a low carbon power system can help to reduce the cost of living, improve energy security and support the government’s levelling up agenda. This report maps out how low carbon energy, including onshore...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at how government can learn from Covid to be better prepared for the next crisis. With the UK facing a growing number of extreme risks, the current government has failed to learn from the Covid pandemic and so the new administration must urgently take...

This report from UK think tank Demos looks at localising power to level up towns. In an ongoing period of political change, it is imperative that addressing regional inequalities stays firmly on the political agenda. The challenge of supporting people to thrive within the towns they come from is not going away. There is an...

This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation looks at differences in wealth across groups to understand wealth inequality in the UK. The defining economic challenge for UK families at the moment is the cost of living crisis, rising inflation threatens living standards in the UK as real incomes fall. Owning wealth helps protect...

This report from UK think tank the Institute of Development Studies looks at food access in Peru. The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people living in Latin American cities. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their...

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Social Justice provides a Social Justice manifesto for a thriving Britain. The next Prime Minister faces an unenviable in-tray of urgent domestic challenges. Stuttering economic growth. Public services gripped by backlogs. Soaring energy prices tearing household budgets apart. These are the immediate policy challenges any new...

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government looks at the need for a long-term focus on skills and cities. Levelling up will not deliver the changes promised by Boris Johnson unless the next prime minister’s government is more ambitious in tackling regional inequality. What levelling up policies will drive economic change?: The...

This report from UK think tank the Nuffield Trust uses hospital data to understand the key health care issues for women in prison. This new research, which was funded by the Health Foundation, underlines the challenges and risks women in prison face because of barriers to accessing health and care services.  All prisoners have a...

This report from UK think tank the Constitution Unit looks at the independence and accountability of five constitutional regulators. Constitutional watchdogs have emerged in the UK as important overseers of political propriety and the democratic process. But they have developed haphazardly, and vary in the ways they are independent and accountable. There is an obvious...

This report from UK think tank HEPI looks at the growing responsibility that boards of higher education institutions have on issues of academic quality. A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Why it is time for university governors to do more on academic quality (HEPI Policy Note 36), notes the growing responsibility that...

This report from UK think tank Chatham House looks at how myths about Russia's military intent affect Western policy, and what can be done. This Chatham House research aims to address some of the longer-term conceptual challenges in understanding Russian hard power, which are not directly linked to current operations in Ukraine. It challenges some...