Tag Archives: Public Services

On 15 April, Social Market Foundation Director Ian Mulheirn took part in a Political Quarterly debate on the social market framework in public policy.

A little-noticed announcement on public spending at last month’s Budget looks set to pit pensioners and working-age people against each other in the future over their share of the controversial welfare bill, new analysis from the Social Market Foundation reveals.

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.

On 5 February 2013 Michael Gove delivered a speech entitled “The Progressive Betrayal” to the Social Market Foundation. A recording of the event, text from the speech and tweets from...

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.