In late July 2024, the seaside town of Southport in Merseyside burst into the national consciousness when it suffered two ...

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IPPR have announced the launch of a new inclusion taskforce, dedicated to developing a roadmap for reforming England's failing special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system. The taskforce ...

Regional inequality is a major concern for the public, and looming elections present an opportunity for course correction in the next parliament and the decade to come. This State of the North report ...

Technological change is a good thing. It has brought exponential gains to living standards and is the foundation of modern society. Yet unmanaged technological change has always come with risks and ...

The upcoming AI Action Summit in Paris is an opportunity to show how we can harness artificial intelligence (AI) as a force for societal, economic, and environmental good. AI is fundamentally ...

The Centre for Economic Justice (CEJ) at IPPR is our landmark initiative to provide progressive and practical ideas for fundamental reform of the economy, to one which is hard-wired for both ...

A crisis of lost learning is sweeping across schools in England. Children cannot learn if they are not in school and not engaged. This means attainment cannot be raised further, employment outcomes ...

Good health is the keystone of a prosperous and just country. The Commission on Health and Prosperity is a landmark initiative, exploring the case that a fairer country is a healthier country, and ...

Asylum accommodation costs have soared in recent years, with billions of pounds being spent on housing people in inadequate conditions, which is both a waste of public funds and a failure to meet ...

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