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 sets out a new vision for public services in the United Kingdom, inspired by the new public services paradigm which has emerged locally in the UK in the post-financial crisis era.

This is the first paper of the Future Public Services Taskforce. It acts as a foundation for the rest of the work of the Taskforce, describing their analysis of the challenges facing public services, the causes of those challenges, and the role that the Taskforce will play in responding to those challenges.

This paper summarises the current state of play with regard to homelessness prevention in England. Drawing on the available evidence and promising practice from across the United Kingdom, it also explores potential areas where there may be opportunities for an even more effective approach, and where future policy and practice could focus.

In this essay, the authors argue that we need a state which is more expansive in how it sees the challenge of reforming public services.