Only history will reveal what the current chancellor, Rachel Reeves’, pre-budget routine looks like. But whatever it is, it ...

Fresh IPPR Scotland polling has found a growing disconnect between the public’s priorities and the political debate ahead of next year’s Scottish parliamentary election. The polling, conducted by ...

We find a worrying disconnect between voters’ opinions and the reality of these challenges, particularly on the state of the ...

First minister John Swinney is set to give a keynote speech at a major conference hosted by the Scottish think tank IPPR Scotland on Wednesday in Edinburgh. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the ...

There is consensus that the education system is not working well enough for children with special educational needs and ...

Young people are facing a rising tide of complex challenges. Growing up through more than a decade of austerity, the grip of ...

A quarter of employees feel pressure to drink at workplace events, rising to 38 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds Workplace drinking culture driving absences as 31 per cent of workers call in sick in ...

Across the western world it feels like a sea change is occurring in our politics. At the heart of this is a simple fact: large numbers of people increasingly feel that mainstream politics is failing ...

The Bank of England increased its interest rates over recent years, aimed at reducing inflation. But this has also had an unintended effect on the Bank of England’s massive government bond buying – ...

A key priority for the government’s upcoming child poverty strategy should be to remove the two-child limit and scrap the household benefit cap. These measures would cost around £3 billion and, while ...

London receives twice as much culture funding as the North Leading think tank and The Great North unite to call out culture divide New research by IPPR North lays bare the compounding crises facing ...

34 million school days lost due to record number of suspensions and unauthorised absences Children permanently excluded in 2023/24 to cost state £1.9bn billion Who is Losing Learning Coalition calls ...