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IPPR accelerates progress through ideas, analysis, and public dialogue.

Our work provides insight into the challenges facing UK society, and impactful, workable policies.

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  1. Getting the child poverty strategy we need: A co-produced agenda for change

    The UK government has a time-limited opportunity to make a decisive difference to child poverty in its upcoming strategy. 
  2. Not yet settled? Assessing the government’s new policy on indefinite leave to remain

    This month’s white paper represented the most significant shake-up in immigration policy since Brexit.
  3. Negotiating the future of work: Legislating to protect workers from surveillance

    New technologies are radically transforming worker surveillance. Meaningful worker voice is needed over surveillance practices to address the risks they pose to worker's rights and wellbeing.
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    Facing the future: Progressives in a changing world

    Progressive parties need a new set of defining and guiding ideas to challenge the populist radical right.
  5. Singapore on the Clyde?

    Sir Tom Hunter is not happy.Scotland, he laments, is in “managed decline”. The UK and Scottish governments are “punishing the entrepreneurial community with more tax” and, inevitably, “no country has ever taxed its way to growth”. Change…
  6. Fixing the foundations: The case for investing in children's health

    For decades, governments of all stripes have promised to give children a better, healthier start to life. But despite this – and some notable policy successes – the UK continues to fall short on childhood health outcomes.