The aim of the bill, as stated on the House of Commons Library website, is to “improve the safeguarding of children and to ...

David is an Associate Director and helps lead two main areas of research at the Institute. First is work on devolved and local government finance, with a particular focus on the distribution of ...

The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), introduced in the UK in 1999, represented an ambitious attempt to boost post-16 education participation among disadvantaged youth. By providing weekly ...

On 26 March, Rachel Reeves will respond to updated economic and fiscal forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). One key question is whether those forecasts put the Chancellor on ...

The Spring Forecast on 26 March is supposed to be a non-event: Rachel Reeves has committed to holding just one fiscal event per year, in the autumn. But given economic developments since October's ...

Lars Nesheim is a Professor of Economics at UCL and Co-Director of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap). After obtaining his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, he worked for ...

Christine Farquharson's presentation at the Nursery World Business Summit 2025, at America Square Conference Centre, London.

At this online event IFS researchers discussed what has changed since the Autumn, and what this means for the Chancellor's Spring Forecast.

Wealth concentration among baby boomers and stagnant earnings are driving the rise of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, affecting ...

The government’s decision to boost military funding out of international aid felt panicked. But this a watershed moment that ...