Category Archives: Media Release

The stakes are extremely high for the Government as the Universal Credit nears the implementation stage. Get it right, and the Government can boast that it has cracked welfare reform. Get it wrong, and the chaos that will ensue could consign many to socia

Government growth strategy ‘a manifest failure’, says Social Market Foundation Director Ian Mulheirn

Early diagnosis is fundamental to tackling the ‘national crisis’ of dementia in the UK. We need to move towards a system that targets appropriate outcomes and gives more freedom to commissioners and GPs

Flawed commissioning of healthcare is getting in the way of effectively tackling dementia, because it gives practitioners no incentive to diagnose the condition, a study claims today.

Beyond all the debate about targets and rules, the message from the Autumn Statement is that public services face years of deep retrenchment.

New analysis of the Autumn Statement by the Social Market Foundation reveals that public services look set to bear the brunt of £31bn of cuts after the next election.

The stakes for George Osborne as he prepares to deliver his third Autumn Statement this week couldn’t be higher, says the Social Market Foundation.

The Social Market Foundation suggests three radical changes to the Work Programme in response to the poor figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions.

On 27 November the Department for Work and Pensions will release figures on how well Work Programme providers have been performing since the scheme launched in June 2011. Ahead of this the Social Market Foundation has produced a short briefing on the Work Programme.