Regulation has an important role to play in public services – particularly those, such as the UK's National Health Service (NHS), that manage high levels of risk, where good leadership, processes and governance are of paramount importance to safety. This report focuses on trust leaders’ views and experience of regulation during 2023/24.

Alongside an imminent general election, this year will see the greatest expansion in funded childcare on record for families in England. This research sheds some light on what the public want - framing childcare as a means to give every child the best start to their education, rather than an economic issue.

Introduced in 1999, Sure Start was the first large government initiative to provide holistic support to families with children under the age of 5 in England. This report presents evidence of the short- and medium-term impacts of the programme on educational outcomes, providing important evidence to show that intervening in early childhood to promote child...

This report looks at how power and influence are distributed unequally across British society. It argues that the next wave of democratic reform should be guided by the principle of political equality.

To meet England’s ever more pressing skills needs and realise the country’s potential, the author of this report argues that the country needs to support the development of a range of appropriately-funded specialist educational institutions.