Projects paid for through levelling up funding pots have faced huge delays and the government does not plan to evaluate their long-term success, despite the fact it was supposed to be a flagship...
Asylum in the UK is a government problem and human catastrophe. Local services are under pressure, and vulnerable people are the biggest losers. PF investigates.
Austerity could have contributed to almost 150,000 extra deaths in England in the decade prior to Covid-19 by amplifying the effect inequality had on life expectancy, a leading health equity expert...
Could ideas from Victorian times help solve pressing problems like climate change or factory sweatshops? We’ve found the early adopters who think they can.
A rising state pension age and lack of action to support the growing number of people experiencing long-term sickness could push more into poverty, the Health Foundation has warned.
The government’s supposed flagship policy of levelling up will fail if councils do not receive additional funding and powers, experts have said after one of the policy’s original architects said...
Plans to sharply lower the level of child poverty in Scotland will fail without significant investment from the Scottish government, experts have warned.
Local authorities in the most deprived areas of England have faced government cuts far outstripping those faced by the richest areas – a situation one council leader said needs to be reversed “for ‘...
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