This report shows how the UK Government's existing spending review process fails to align government spending with strategic priorities and long-term value for money. It recommends resetting the approach to spending reviews and introduces more effective ways of managing public spending.

In order to deliver on its priorities, the UK's civil service needs to manage its workforce more effectively, tackle damaging levels of staff turnover, reform pay structures and recruitment processes, access and utilise the full range of expertise outside of government, and open itself up to more challenge and scrutiny. This paper sets out 20...

Most of the money that flows to the UK's National Health Service now goes through Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) designed to simplify, integrate and localise the management of key healthcare services. This short paper, based on interviews with those involved in ICSs, looks at how they can be made to work better.

Over the last 14 years, the UK's Conservative-led governments oversaw the hollowing out of public services. The effects of this have been felt across the nation. This report sets out the most pressing problems facing the new government, in four key areas – health and social care, local government, criminal justice and schools – and...

The specific details of how Whitehall will transition to being 'mission-driven' are still to be defined. To aid in this transition, this paper sets out a recommended approach for how government could effectively organise itself to deliver missions. It should act as a guide for public servants at the start of a new administration that...