Personalising benefits and support is key to helping disabled people into work.

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Education secretary Lucy Powell also understood to be committed to existing reform timetable

The new PM will have to prioritise to make progress on social care during this parliament

There are no easy answers to meeting the prison capacity challenge.

London MP and key Starmer ally will remain a DfE minister, but with her exact role unconfirmed

Beyond refreshing his Cabinet, keeping most ministers in their current roles is Burnham’s best chance of getting things done in government.

The businessman said it was an "honour" to serve in the post, but the BBC understands he feels he has achieved all he can in the role.

How to begin fixing SEND by making the system more joined-up.

Keir Starmer squandered the opportunity to reform public services.

Devolution is a means of building a more capable state: one that can connect prevention, productivity, growth and fiscal sustainability.

Most disadvantaged schools see largest fall in pupil numbers, NFER finds

Quantifying the level of challenge in the Government's twin ambitions of raising Key Stage 4 attainment overall and halving the disadvantage gap

The home secretary’s immigration reforms could put her on collision course with the courts

The government’s early years target is doing little to incentivise the system to focus on boys from low-income families.

Paying disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school slightly raises enrolment but does not improve qualifications or future job prospects

The government’s white paper risks undermining one of the few public services currently working well

What can ministers learn from their predecessors' work with the civil service?

The school workforce in England has shrunk in size for the first time since 2019, official data shows

How can government better support people out of work due to ill health?

The government spends £3bn on children’s homes a year and the profits existing players make have ‘piqued people’s interest’

A ban was meant to bring an end to the practice - but councils continue to fund illegal placements.

Newham Council recently appointed Nathan Nagaiah as its ‘head of AI’. Ella Jessel speaks to the former maths teacher about what other councils could learn.