Category Archives: Media Release

In the lead up to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, SMF's new briefing reveals the scale of the deficit waiting for the next Government with entirely new numbers.

Shadow Minister for Universities, Science and Skills, Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, sets out options for reform of Britain's universities to boost the country's knowledge economy and open high paying technical and professional jobs to the 'forgotten 50 per cent'.

The government must remove the barriers holding back potential entrepreneurs from starting the high-value, growth boosting companies which are key to unlocking UK productivity, says a new study by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank.

Children who attend private school will earn £193,700 more on average in their early careers than their state educated peers, according to a new independent report by the Social Market...

The government must do more to “widen ladders of opportunity, smash glass ceilings and back the British underdog” says Conservative MP Dominic Raab in his new pamphlet The Meritocrat’s Manifesto, to be published by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank on Wednesday 11th June.

Advancing the skills of low-paid workers is essential if the UK is to make work pay and remain globally competitive says the Social Market Foundation (SMF) in its new report, Making Progress: Boosting the skills and wage prospects of the low paid, released on Monday 28 April 2014.

A new report, 'Riders on the Storm: Britain’s middle income households since 2007', launched by the Social Market Foundation on Monday 7th April, suggests that the squeeze on living standards is being exaggerated.

The Social Market Foundation's response to the 2014 Budget statement.

Following the Public Accounts Committee report into private contractors and public spending, Social Market Foundation Research Director and author of a forthcoming SMF report on the use of private contractors in reoffender rehabilitation services, Nigel Keohane sets out his thoughts on the need for transparency and honesty in contracting out public services.