There is no reason to delay plans for potentially three years.

There is no reason to delay plans for potentially three years.

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

Tom Pope, the IfG’s Manchester correspondent, is optimistic about the future of UK politics’ self-styled second city

The 2026 UK budget is fast approaching.

Wes Streeting's Health Bill is on its way back to the Commons.

Reorganisation has been a regular feature of NHS history, but has often failed to deliver its goals. The abolition of NHS England marks the biggest restructure of the health service’s command structur...

Examining the performance gaps in schools.

Special guests Lord O'Donnell, Mark Sedwill, Helen MacNamara, Simon Case and others share the behind the scenes of the preparation for an incoming PM.

The government has asked departments to show how they can support its new procurement reforms.

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

Changes on tax, new powers and institutions show Burnham means business.

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

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

Examining the care gap in England.

The new PM needs to align the boundaries of services in local areas.

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

The new PM needs to align the boundaries of services in local areas.

Government has made great strides in opening itself up to inputs from the UK’s world-leading university sector – but it can do still more.

Keir Starmer squandered the opportunity to reform public services.

Tough choices on tax and spend await the next prime minister.

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

Keir Starmer squandered the opportunity to reform public services.

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.

Last year, the government introduced league tables rating the performance of NHS trusts in England. Thea Stein, who raised concerns at the time, argues that the tables are a poor guide to the quality ...

Raiding capital budgets in this way to pay for greater defence capability is the wrong approach.

Does Andy Burnham’s experience as a regional mayor prepare him for No.10?

Popular spending promises aren’t always good politics for would-be prime ministers.

A well-prepared transition of prime ministers would be in the interests of the country.