Tag Archives: Employment and Labour Market

The Social Market Foundation responds to Spending Review 2013, which was predominantly about departmental spending in the 2015-16 fiscal year. The SMF argues that what it actually tells us most about is how tough politics is about to become.

On Thursday 27 June the Government will release the latest performance figures on its flagship back-to-work scheme, the Work Programme. This short briefing explores the likely performance levels we will see ifrom the second year of the scheme.

The Government should adopt a radical new model of unemployment support combining retirement and rainy-day savings, underpinned by the power of social relationships, the Social Market Foundation think tank claims today (Monday 17 June).

The Government’s approach to reforming unemployment support is harming the UK’s future prosperity and will not equip the country for the global race, a leading economist warns today.

The Government's new childcare voucher scheme is welcome news for many middle- and high-income parents with children under the age of five struggling with the high costs of childcare: polling by YouGov for the SMF that just as many these parents said they found it difficult to pay for childcare as parents on the lowest incomes.

The Government’s aim to rebalance the economy away from financial services is inconceivable due to a 40,000 per year shortage of home-grown graduates in the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors, a think tank reveals today (Monday 18 March).

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.