Public Services Performance Tracker
Our flagship project assesses the comparative problems faced by critical services such as the NHS, schools, local government and criminal justice.
Public Services Performance Tracker is an ongoing analysis of the performance of public services. It brings together more than 250 indicators to analyse spending, demand, staffing and performance. The analysis examines the comparative, and in many cases interconnected, problems faced by public services.
The main output of the project is an annual report assessing performance across nine services that is published each autumn. In addition to this, shorter reports use the Performance Tracker data to rapidly respond to live policy debates, dig deeper into the drivers of trends identified in the annual reports, or assess the performance of an additional public services.
Since 2024, it has been produced in partnership with the Nuffield Foundation and an advisory group has been established to help steer the project.
Public Services Performance Tracker 2025
The government has large ambitions for public services. But with patchy progress since the election, it needs to get a grip to make a success of its reforms and deliver promised improvements. Read our annual stocktake on the state of nine key services.
Read the report
Performance Tracker Local
Read other outputs from the project
Read previous editions of the Performance Tracker annual report
Performance Tracker team
Nick Davies
Programme Director
Stuart Hoddinott
Associate Director
Cassia Rowland
Senior Researcher
Amber Dellar
Researcher
Philip Nye
Senior Data Scientist
Maria Laura La Corte
Research Assistant