The IfG brought together influential speakers and experts to explore the key questions for government in 2026.

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This week: Resident doctor strikes, the new child poverty strategy, extra funding for domestic abuse support and analysis showing jury…

Reforms aim to ease backlog of nearly 80,000 cases waiting to be heard in England and Wales

Public health allocations are due to be held flat in real terms for three years, despite the government's intended "shift from treatment to prevention".

This week: jury trial restrictions, place-based budgeting pilots, and warnings from Ofsted on the children’s social care market.

The abolition of NHS England creates both risks and opportunities.

Most countries don’t use jury trials, but few rely on a single judge to pass both verdict and sentence

The pandemic showed the need for government to improve its use of modelling.

NHS performance is improving, but a complex and haphazardly planned reform package might slow progress.

It will be extremely difficult for the government to meet its education priorities within the budget it has set for the coming parliament.

The problems in criminal justice run far deeper than one high-profile error.

The government must act to avoid the justice system returning to the crisis point seen when Labour entered office, or worse.

Labour’s public service plans are less than the sum of their parts.