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Public Services
Strong public services are vital in a social market economy, but what they deliver matters much more than who delivers it. Our work is about understanding how to reform and modernise those services to deliver the greatest benefit to society.
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SMF Briefing: Spending Choices after 2015 – Investing for Growth
The third paper in our Spending Choices series examines what types of government spending are good for economic growth; what the different parties have committed to post-2015; and, which areas the next government will need to focus growth-friendly spending on.
| Published: | 13 February 2015 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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SMF Briefing: Spending Choices after 2015 – A Deficit of Growth II
In this update of our original spending choices briefing we find that meeting deficit reduction targets is now much more dependent on greater productivity growth than has so far been assumed
| Published: | 27 January 2015 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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SMF Briefing: Choosing to succeed – Do parents pick the right schools?
Drawing on new data from the Millennium Cohort Study, this briefing provides evidence that academic quality is far from the main driver in parental choice of schools, particularly among low income households.
| Published: | 16 January 2015 |
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| Author: | Gabrielle Leroux |
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SMF Briefing: Spending choices after 2015 – A Deficit of Growth
In the lead up to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, our briefing reveals the scale of the deficit waiting for the next Government with newly updated numbers.
| Published: | 23 November 2014 |
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| Author: | Nida Broughton |
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Breaking Bad Habits: Reforming rehabilitation services
This report analyses the Coalition government's Transforming Rehabilitation proposals and provides new analysis on the possible impacts of the reforms.
| Published: | 28 April 2014 |
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| Author: | Nigel Keohane |
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SMF Briefing: Osborne’s New Choice – Autumn Statement 2013
The Social Market Foundation has published a briefing document entitled Osborne's New Choice ahead of the Autumn Statement exploring the Chancellor's plan to target a surplus on the structural current budget by 2017/18.
| Published: | 03 December 2013 |
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| Author(s): | Leonora Merry, Nida Broughton |
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Beveridge Rebooted: Social security for a networked age
This series of essays explores the crisis of legitimacy in working age welfare. It examines the policy options for what to do about financial support for the unemployed.
| Published: | 15 August 2013 |
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| Author(s): | Ian Mulheirn, Jeff Masters, John Hutton |
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Responses to ‘Paying for Results?’
Responses to the Social Market Foundation's 'Paying for Results?' briefing paper
| Published: | 09 August 2013 |
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SMF Briefing: Paying for results? Rethinking probation reform
This briefing note examines the detailed proposals for the all-important payment by results aspect of the scheme. The analysis shows that the proposed payment regime creates perverse incentives such that providers risk making losses if they seek to cut reoffending. The paper offers solutions to the problems identified that would improve incentives on providers and offer much better value for money to the taxpayer.
| Published: | 09 August 2013 |
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| Author: | Ian Mulheirn |