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Fixing public services: The criminal justice system
Police, criminal courts, prisons and probation are all struggling to cope, with major performance problems and demand set to keep growing.
Fixing public services: Schools
Widening disadvantage gaps, high SEND spending, teacher shortages and the condition of the estate all present challenges to the schools system.
Fixing public services: Local government
Severe funding shortfalls for local authorities mean spending on acute services, such as social care, is squeezing out other services.
Fixing public services: The NHS
Labour's NHS commitments are likely to require more spending. But recent spending increases have not generated commensurate performance improvements.
Fixing public services: Summary
Sticking to the status quo means most services are likely to be performing worse at the next election in 2028/29 than at the last election in 2019.
Fixing public services
The government's public services inheritance make its spending plans untenable.
What does a ‘mission-driven’ approach to government mean and how can it be delivered?
How government could effectively organise itself to deliver missions.
New chancellor, new rules
Economic policy making in the UK is crying out for change.
The crisis in prisons
How to start fixing the problems at the heart of the criminal justice system.
Clean power by 2030
How Keir Starmer can knock down the 10 biggest barriers to Labour's 2030 clean power plan.