Asylum accommodation costs have soared in recent years, with billions of pounds being spent on housing people in inadequate conditions, which is both a waste of public funds and a failure to meet ...

A crisis of lost learning is sweeping across schools in England. Children cannot learn if they are not in school and not engaged. This means attainment cannot be raised further, employment outcomes ...

Turnout disparity between graduates and non-graduates was 11 percentage points, twice as high as 2019, and gap between homeowners and renters rose to 21 points, report finds Call for £100,000 cap on ...

The UK’s competition framework — and its regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority — has struggled to prevent rising market concentration and stagnant productivity. At the same time, the UK ...

Back office, entry level and part-time jobs most exposed to automation, and women significantly more affected 11 per cent of tasks are exposed to existing generative AI, rising to 59 per cent if ...

Reliance on hotels has led to asylum accommodation and support costs soaring from £17,000 per person in 2019/20 to £41,000 in 2023/24 ; Muhammad said: “Asylum accommodation traps people in unhealthy, ...

IPPR recommends government considers measures to force developers to build, or face sanctions; A new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research into England’s planning system finds that the ...

National poll of over 1,000 finds employers believe strengthening workers’ rights would be positive for productivity and profits New polling for IPPR, the TUC and Persuasion UK by Opinium has found ...

UK food, energy and economic security threatened by climate shocks and their chaotic consequences ; Security threats are escalating: evidence suggests 45 per cent chance of a tipping point in the ...

Excluded children are the most vulnerable: twice as likely to be in the care of the state, four times more likely to have grown up in poverty, seven times more likely to have a special educational ...

Measures to boost public investment in today’s budget reverse planned cuts and mean the Starmer government is forecast to deliver the highest average level of public investment of any prime minister ...

The government must be "changemakers and not just bookkeepers" at Budget says leading progressive think tank ; If Labour keeps its promises on borrowing, tax and spending but fails to improve public ...