Adult social care has been cut substantially since the onset of austerity. This is increasingly having severe consequences on the frontline including rising unmet need and pressures on quality and...
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Older people
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Workers in the NHS have experienced a seven-year pay squeeze, with a two year pay freeze from 2011/12, followed by pay capped at 1 per cent for the following five years. This has significantly eroded...
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Last week, the transport secretary arrived for another tour of Northern cities to "slay some myths" that he believed had emerged following his challenging summer visit. In his last outing he...
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Public services
IPPR North
In just a few weeks’ time, the Prime Minister looks set to use her speech to Conservative party conference to recommit to delivering on her pledge to make peoples’ energy cost less.
What’s more,...
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Devolution & local leadership
Economy
Public services
Party conferences
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Since 1948, the entire population of the United Kingdom has benefitted from universal and (mostly) comprehensive healthcare, free at the point of delivery. Conventionally, we refer to the provider of...
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Devolution & local leadership
Public services
IPPR
Over the past few decades a recurrent theme in public policy discourse has been the desire to decentralise economic, public service and democratic power within the UK, and more recently within...
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The NHS is facing one of the most challenging periods in its history, with a funding gap of more than £22 billion over the coming years. And the pressure on the social care system is more acute than...
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Supporters of England's growing range of institutions for 14–19-year-olds – mainly university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools – are increasingly being challenged by those who argue that,...
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Young people
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In this essay, ‘Success in the 21st Century: The education of head, heart and hand’, Peter Hyman describes how our one-dimensional education system needs to adapt to the multidimensional world...
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Public services
While ensuring sufficient high-quality, flexible childcare is an issue across the country, London faces unique challenges in terms of affordability, inequity and undersupply. This report presents the...
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Public services
Families
London
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