This paper analyses the current constitutional and operational framework for a new classification of public expenditure. The aim is to identify expenditure and encourage the ‘shift to prevention’. It considers three expenditure areas in the United Kingdom: health, homelessness and children’s social care. By differentiating between everyday spending and preventative spending, the government could measure...

This report posits that the crisis in public services in Britain today – waiting lists, crumbling buildings, exhausted professionals – requires a public services recovery. The report identifies current challenges, the policy shifts required and accompanying policy recommendations to address. It provides a practical roadmap that ministers can implement immediately.

This paper argues that traditional approaches to improving public sector productivity have failed to address the complex and evolving needs of public service users. It proposes a shift towards a strengths-based and person-led model by which public services can improve both outcomes and efficiency.

This report makes the business case for social mobility, looking at what businesses stand to gain from introducing strategies and practices that promote social mobility in their workforce and what widespread adoption could mean for productivity and economic growth. It provides guidance for business leaders and supportive policy measures.

Trust in Britain’s system of government is at a record low. This report sets out to better understand the current state of political trust to diagnose what is going wrong, and to develop a playbook to rebuild political trust. It identifies key drivers of low trust from which it builds a series of strategies and...