This week: Darzi’s diagnosis; changes to Ofsted’s grades; and increases to magistrates’ sentencing powers.
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Conference season is in full swing, but we at the IfG have far more nerdy concerns…
This week: managing expectations for the budget; GCSE results return to pre-pandemic trends; and a shift in crime trends
This week: Reeves’ audit of public finances; GPs vote for industrial action; and solutions for the crisis in prisons
We’ve fallen a bit behind updating this blog in the last few months. Hopefully…
This week: spending review timings; rethinking GP access; and local election watch
You can’t move these days without someone speculating when the general election’s going to be. But you hear less…
This week: more cuts for unprotected services; NHS waiting list ambitions; and dodgy…
This week: Lansley 2.0?; yet more benefits from Sure Start; and some rare good news in prisons
Westminster has been rocked by a honey trap scandal, with a range of MPs, staffers, and journalists…
This week: public sector pay trends; AI myth-busting; and a reality check for Welsh education policy
Things seem quiet in Westminster, maybe too quiet, as we emerge blinking from a four-day weekend…
This week: Spring budget breakdown; prisons and police problems; council cuts
Fiscal fiction? Fictitious future? Politicians’ pretence over public spending? If you still haven’t had enough of the…
This week: fiscal fantasies; GP contract quarrelling; and brutal cuts in Birmingham
I had to check my calendar a few times to make sure this one is true, but it seems that we have another fiscal…
This week: what to expect in 2024; good news on the elective waiting list; and Ofsted…