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Testing Resilience

Report · 27pp

The evolving conflict in the Middle East has human and economic costs for the countries directly involved, and will test …

Fiscal Policy

Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2025: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey

Report · 46pp

This year’s responses to the annual British Social Attitudes survey on the NHS and social care are as complex to …

Health

The Good Food Bill: Fixing Food For Good

Report · 14pp
Food Food Insecurity

Healthy food sales reporting: progress, pitfalls, and the risk of industry gaming

Web Article · 1pp

Food businesses play a major role in what we eat, which in turn shapes both our health and the environment. …

Food
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Climate adaptation and mitigation in the agri-food system

Report · 359pp

Only a systemic transition, featuring both structural and technical change, can climate-proof the European agri-food system, while also addressing concerns …

Food Food Insecurity

Trillion Dollar Bills: The Costs of Transatlantic Dependence for Europe

Research Paper · 31pp

From imposing fossil energy dominance to NATO spending targets, the US is extracting more from Europe and putting the climate …

Climate

Economic and fiscal outlook 2026

Report · 131pp

This Economic and fiscal outlook (EFO) sets out our central forecast and the uncertainties that surround it for the five …

Fiscal Policy

A Plan for Places: Transforming Housing and Lowering the Cost of Living Through Home Improvement Corporations

Research Paper

Millions of households live in cold and damp homes that are increasingly expensive to heat and cause health problems. At …

Housing

From fiscal rules to fiscal traffic lights: rethinking the UK fiscal framework

PDF · 72pp

The central contention of this report is that the UK fiscal framework has some desirable features but is not delivering …

Fiscal Policy

Improving access to free school meals: Evaluating the implementation of free school meal auto-enrolment processes

PDF · 27pp

To receive benefits-related free school meals in England, households must currently have an annual household income of less than £7,400 …

Food Food Insecurity

What Works in Cornwall?

PDF · 8pp

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is developing a new food strategy to ensure good food for …

Food Food Insecurity

Strengthening Resilience to Climate Change Recommendations for an effective EU adaptation policy framework

PDF · 169pp

Europe faces increasingly severe climate impacts, including rising loss of life, economic damages and ecosystem harm. While deep and sustained …

Climate

Environmental change, hunger and hardship in the UK

Report · 16pp

In 2025 , Trussell commissioned an Environmental Evidence Review to explore the links between environmental issues and the drivers of …

Food Food Insecurity

Unsung Britain-A portrait of the country's poorer half

Research Paper · 202pp

This book, however, examines how this petering out of progress has played out among working-age families in the lower half …

Poverty

From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Engineering Fuels the Epidemic of Preventable Disease

PDF · 40pp

Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) are engineered to heighten reward and accelerate delivery of reinforcing ingredients, driving compulsive consumption and disrupting appetite …

Food

Corruption Perceptions Index 2025

PDF · 28pp

The global order is under strain from rivalry between major powers, and dangerous disregard for international norms. Armed conflicts and …

Corruption

Potential Pathways and Solutions to Acute Food System Crisis in the UK

Research Paper · 27pp

There is increasing concern in many advanced economies about the risks of disruption and crises in agri-food systems. Government departments …

Food Food Insecurity

UK Poverty 2026

PDF · 221pp

The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK

Child Poverty Poverty

Cities Outlook 2026

PDF · 42pp

Cities Outlook, our annual health check of the economic performance of urban Britain, offers a deep dive into the latest …

Why does England have unemployed GPs when patients can’t get GP appointments?

Web Article

With public satisfaction with general practice at an all-time low and patients frustrated by how difficult it is to secure …

Health
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The crisis we are not naming: The psychology of capitalism

Research Paper · 10pp

Psychology has rendered capitalism invisible, treating in- dividualism as cultural inheritance rather than a response to contemporary economic conditions. Building …

The State of the Nation's Food Industry 2025

PDF · 51pp

Which UK food businesses are supporting the transition to more healthy and sustainable diets and what needs to happen next?

Food

The State of the World’s Children 2025

PDF · 80pp

This edition of The State of the World’s Children reveals an urgent reality: Progress in reducing child poverty is under …

Child Poverty

UK analysis: State of the Worlds Children

PDF · 5pp

There are record numbers of children living in poverty in the UK. Experiencing poverty in childhood can cause lasting damage …

Child Poverty

High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP-Interim Progress Report

PDF · 7pp
Beyond GDP
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