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An archive of recent Institute for Government press releases and media mentions.
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Reforms are needed to ensure better decision making in mayoral combined authorities
Our new report "Making England's 'devolution revolution' a reality" outlines ways to reform decision making in mayoral combined authorities.
More work and education in prisons could turn around declining performance
More work and education and increasing access to open prisons could turn around over a decade of poor prison performance in England and Wales.
How to deliver England's once-in-a-generation local government reorganisation
How can areas successfully reorganise local government and implement devolution at the same time?
Matt Hancock, Clare Short and John Denham Interviewed for IfG's Ministers Reflect
In this new IfG Ministers Reflect, Matt Hancock, Clare Short and John Denham give candid interviews about Covid, Johnson, Blair and Brown.
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Reforms are needed to ensure better decision making in mayoral combined authorities
Our new report "Making England's 'devolution revolution' a reality" outlines ways to reform decision making in mayoral combined authorities.
More work and education in prisons could turn around declining performance
More work and education and increasing access to open prisons could turn around over a decade of poor prison performance in England and Wales.
How to deliver England's once-in-a-generation local government reorganisation
How can areas successfully reorganise local government and implement devolution at the same time?
Matt Hancock, Clare Short and John Denham Interviewed for IfG's Ministers Reflect
In this new IfG Ministers Reflect, Matt Hancock, Clare Short and John Denham give candid interviews about Covid, Johnson, Blair and Brown.
Civil service inefficiency - Alex Thomas, Times Radio
Alex Thomas, IfG programme director, discusses the civil service responding to the Dominic Cummings interview in The Times.
IfG's Annual Whitehall Stocktake: The civil service needs to change to deliver Labour's missions
Published today, Whitehall Monitor 2025 examines the civil service that Keir Starmer’s government inherited after the July 2024 election.
Civil service morale worsened despite improving pay levels, survey finds
Whitehall Monitor report also said churn increased as three new departments created under Rishi Sunak
How the government can take control of the UK's asylum system
The government must exert its authority over the whole asylum system and avoid short-sighted measures aimed at conjuring an illusion of control.
Why new public bodies fail – and 10 lessons for the government to get it right
10 practical lessons from past experience to help ministers, senior civil servants and public body leaders to design and lead new bodies successfully.
Austerity postponed
A new IfG report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is a cross-service analysis of the budget’s impact on public services.