The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

This is despite a recent, sudden ONS methodological change significantly revising up estimates of UK research investment, more through luck than judgement. Stagnation in the UK economy demands a more ...

The upcoming AI Action Summit in Paris is an opportunity to show how we can harness artificial intelligence (AI) as a force for societal, economic, and environmental good. AI is fundamentally ...

Asylum accommodation costs have soared in recent years, with billions of pounds being spent on housing people in inadequate conditions, which is both a waste of public funds and a failure to meet ...

A crisis of lost learning is sweeping across schools in England. Children cannot learn if they are not in school and not engaged. This means attainment cannot be raised further, employment outcomes ...

The Office for Budgetary Responsibility has outlined a new approach to modelling the growth impacts of public investment. Unlike before, this allows them to better reflect the economic benefits of ...

While there is a tendency in health policy to focus on what government can do for health through public service delivery, which is vitally important, there is huge health-creating potential for ...

The newly elected Labour government has picked up where the previous government left off, by committing to continuing the plans to roll out ‘free’ hours and develop a stronger childcare system more ...

For decades, governments of all stripes have promised to give children a better, healthier start to life. But despite this – and some notable policy successes – the UK continues to fall short on ...

A new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research into England’s planning system finds that the government will have to tackle unproductive land speculation and ramp up strategic planning ...

But growth is low, and UK is at the bottom of the G7 for investment, and the plans inherited from the previous government have public investment on a sharp downward path. The framework inherited does ...

Excluded children are the most vulnerable: twice as likely to be in the care of the state, four times more likely to have grown up in poverty, seven times more likely to have a special educational ...