Category Archives: Media Release

A 'no-lose lottery' and a savings smartcard to make saving a 'crime of opportunity' are amongst the recommendations contained in a new report by published today by the Social Market Foundation think tank.

Voracious competition over headline prices in financial services comes at the expense of product quality, undermining consumer trust and compounding inertia, a new report published today (Wednesday 13 July) by the think tank the Social Market Foundation.

The Government has been told that much needed Dilnot proposals on funding long term care and support can only be paid for by raising taxes or cutting spending in the next Comprehensive Spending Review in 2013.

Social Market Foundation responds to today's publications of the White Paper on Higher Education, finding that despite the rhetoric that these measures will fully liberalise Higher Education, in reality they will not.

The Government’s plans to encourage 10,000 first-time buyers onto the housing ladder announced in the budget have been branded ill-advised and dangerous by leading think thank the Social Market Foundation today.

The Government's growth strategy should substantially raise the National Minimum Wage as the economy recovers and expand the role of Local Enterprise Partnerships to drive up quality in manufacturing, according to a new report launched today by the think tank the Social Market Foundation.

Hundreds of thousands of families trying to save for the future will be left with little or no financial support under the Government's proposed overhaul of welfare benefits, leading think tank the Social Market Foundation (SMF) said today.

Former advisor to Gordon Brown, John Woodcock MP, today criticises the Coalition Government for taking too soft a line with unemployed benefit claimants. Woodcock argues that 'work for your benefit' programmes should be mandatory and permanent for long-term jobseekers.

To pass the tests of fairness, sustainability and adequacy of retirement provision, the SMF argues that Lord Hutton's review of public sector pensions should promote a system that shifts the most pension risk onto the highest earning public sector employees.