Most public services will remain worse in four years’ time than they were just before Covid-19 – and most of them were already worse than they were in 2010 – CIPFA and the Institute for Government’s...
To get brilliant people from the private sector or local government into Whitehall, the Civil Service needs to fix its reputation, increase pay and ensure there are sufficient senior roles to...
Any cuts to public services will be “almost certain” to damage performance, which is already struggling in the wake of a decade of austerity and the Covid-19 pandemic, the government has been warned...
The ongoing pandemic disruption combined with Brexit could overwhelm local authorities and devolved administrations, according to the Institute for Government.
The upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review must allocate funding to address record public service backlogs, CIPFA and the Institute for Government have warned.
The UK government should look to create its own state aid system after the Brexit transitional agreement ends, according to the Institute for Government.
Predicted government spending worth nearly £200bn by the mid 2020s will be just enough to meet demand but will not be sufficient to improve and expand key public services, a major report has found.
The erosion of traditional tax revenues, losing the government billions each year, highlights the need for transparency about the need to reform Britain’s tax system, according to a report by the...
Lone parents and renters are the most likely groups to fall into arrears since local authorities were given control of council tax relief, a think-tank has found.
An increasing number of major government projects risk going over budget because of the government’s preoccupation with Brexit, a think-tank has warned.
Excessive staff turnover in the civil service is costing the taxpayer up to £74m a year in recruitment, training and lost productivity, according to a think-tank.
As the opportunity for efficiency savings dwindles, experts call on government to be explicit about the cost of public services. Dominic Brady reports.
The outlook for adult social care is still potentially bleak, predicts the IFS’s Polly Simpson, with the sector’s sustainability linked to elements outside government control - the performance of the...
The government is “trapped in a reactive spending cycle on public services”, an analysis released by the Institute for Government and CIPFA today has warned.
The UK faces the prospect of failing public services and breached spending controls unless urgent action is taken, the Institute for Government and CIPFA have warned.
Prime minister Theresa May has been urged to set specific targets to improve social mobility and create a special unit to drive the implementation of her pledges.
A more robust approach to public service integration, including increased sharing of both best practice and failures, is needed for such initiatives to be successful across the country, a review has...
There needs to be a “step change” in the way the civil service does business in the wake of Brexit and other challenges, the comptroller and auditor general has said.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has set out plans to increase the transparency of government outsourcing contracts by introducing a presumption in favour of disclosing information, including...
