Category Archives: Media Release

A revolution in retail banking is needed to drive competition and innovation says the Social Market Foundation in its report, Branching Out: the evolution of retail banking, supported by Barclays.

A new phase of radical education reform is needed to end Britain’s educational divide by opening up independent schools to the most disadvantaged, and by charging affluent parents who want to send their children to popular state schools, says the UK’s most prominent headteacher, Anthony Seldon, in a new report published by the Social Market Foundation today.

With Danny Alexander MP set to make a major speech on employee ownership tomorrow, the author of the SMF’s recent report on employee ownership, Mutually Assured Growth, sets out four policies that he hopes the Chief Secretary might take on.

This SMF response analyses some of the key announcements in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, noting a remarkable focus on the long-term.

This Social Market Foundation pre-Autumn Statement briefing looks at the Chancellor's plan to target a surplus on the current structural budget and explores alternatives to cuts from 2017/18.

An ‘employee ownership bank’ is needed to support a more diverse economy, which could restore faith in alternative business structures following the failings at the Co-op Bank, the Social Market Foundation claims today in a new report supported by the John Lewis Partnership.

We tend to think of the ‘bank of mum and dad’ as being about better-off families helping their children through university or with the cost of a wedding. This is certainly widespread. But a report launched today by the Social Market Foundation reveals it is a prevalent and often forgotten source of support among low income families too.

The ‘bank of mum and dad’ is a crucial source of welfare for people on low incomes and those not able to access it are at greater risk of isolation and poverty, the Social Market Foundation reveals today.

The UK Higher Education system has become ‘so lopsided away from teaching’ that it requires a ‘real cultural change’, Universities Minister David Willetts says today in a new pamphlet for the think tank the Social Market Foundation.