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Public Services
Strong public services are vital in a social market economy, but what they deliver matters much more than who delivers it. Our work is about understanding how to reform and modernise those services to deliver the greatest benefit to society.
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A matter of perspective? Outlook inequality and its impact on young people
This report explores young people’s “outlook” in the UK, the role of outlook in shaping life outcomes, and how policy can respond in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Published: | 07 July 2021 |
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| Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Aveek Bhattacharya |
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Fostering the future: Helping local authorities to fulfil their legal duties
This report is the first of two papers looking at how to improve the system of foster care in England. It explores current and future challenges surrounding the provision of appropriate foster care placements that meet the needs of some of society's most vulnerable children.
| Published: | 25 June 2021 |
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| Author: | Matthew Oakley |
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Insuring a return
This research examines the role played by products such as income protection and private medical insurance in reducing absence from work and presenteeism, facilitating a swift return to work, and generating fiscal benefits.
| Published: | 27 May 2021 |
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| Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Richard Hyde, Kishan Rana |
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Time to think again: disability benefits and support after COVID-19
The benefits system for disabled people, and the support that accompanies it, are broken. This report shows that across a range of metrics, the system is failing disabled people and their families and communities.
| Published: | 24 February 2021 |
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| Author: | Matthew Oakley |
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Give me money (That’s what I want): The case for cash benchmarking
Key points ‘Cash benchmarking’ practices have become common in poorer countries in recent years and used by development agencies to compare programme outcomes against the alternative of giving people cash...
| Published: | 01 February 2021 |
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| Author: | Aveek Bhattacharya |
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Obesity and coronavirus – where next for policy?
The Coronavirus pandemic has further highlighted the health consequences of living with overweight and obesity. In response, the UK Government has unveiled a new obesity strategy to get the country to “lose weight to beat coronavirus (COVID-19) and protect the NHS”.
| Published: | 13 December 2020 |
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| Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Jake Shepherd |
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Measuring and mitigating child hunger in the UK
This report provides survey data and modelled analysis of food insecurity in the UK. It follows high profile campaigns from the footballer Marcus Rashford which have expressed concern over child hunger during the coronavirus pandemic.
| Published: | 09 December 2020 |
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| Author(s): | Aveek Bhattacharya, Jake Shepherd |
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A market for residential care services
This report, which draws on discussions from a roundtable held on the eve of the coronavirus outbreak, analyses the performance of the residential care market in England.
| Published: | 22 September 2020 |
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| Author(s): | Kathryn Petrie, James Kirkup |
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Intergenerational fairness in the coronavirus economy
This briefing paper, written by Research Director, Scott Corfe, discusses the need for the economic costs of responding to coronavirus pandemic to be shared fairly across the generations.
| Published: | 14 April 2020 |
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| Author: | Scott Corfe |