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How to set up a public body
Ten lessons on getting new bodies up and running.
Austerity postponed? The impact of Labour’s first budget on public services
Rachel Reeves’ budget will see spending increase faster than demand for every public service bar police until 2025/26.
The Sewel convention in practice
Five case studies from the 2019–24 parliament
Youth work and prevention
Briefing: the benefits of youth work
The next cabinet secretary
What lies ahead for the UK's new top civil servant.
How can the OBR improve the way it judges the supply-side effects of policy?
Better forecasts will lead to better budgets.
Local growth plans
How government should support a place-based approach to its national growth mission.
How does the OBR estimate the demand impact of government policies?
The role of fiscal multipliers in economic forecasting.
Five steps the government must take to deliver its five missions
Labour says it will operate as a ‘mission-driven government’.
How the government can extend devolution to the whole of England
Half of England's population currently is not covered by any form of devolution.