Series: Policy making for left-behind groups

The Institute for Government is committed to improving how government designs and implements policy. Our ‘Policy making for left-behind groups’ series explores how Keir Starmer’s government can deliver better outcomes for groups who have experienced persistent disadvantage, across many policy areas and many decades.

These are people whose specific needs may not always be recognised or fully understood, who may have been deprioritised by policy makers (for whatever reason) or who have been deemed too difficult or costly to engage with by successive governments. In other words, those most under-served, or ‘left behind’, by government. 

The series draws on new analysis to recommend how government can improve the design and implementation of policy to improve the lives of people most at risk of being missed.