Blogs

22 November 2019

Three key lessons for putting wellbeing metrics into policy action

CPP was pleased to attend the OECD conference to learn more about how countries around the world are changing the way they make economic policy. Read our three key lessons.

News

27 November 2019

BBC Radio Leeds - The Richard Stead Breakfast Show features Ben Franklin discussing The Good Employer Index

Ben Franklin, Head of Research Methods, features on BBC Radio Leeds, talking about our Good Employer Index.

News

29 November 2019

The Real Agenda - Charlotte Alldritt discusses the outcomes of our Inclusive Growth Conference

CPP Director, Charlotte Alldritt, discusses our Inclusive Growth Conference with Tom Burgess from The Real Agenda on the Weekly Wake Up! podcast.

Blogs

3 December 2019

Reasons to be hopeful – clean and inclusive growth is possible

Don’t be downbeat, argues CPP Director, Charlotte Alldritt, in her blog following our annual conference last week – there is much to be hopeful about in 2020.

Blogs

6 December 2019

Election special: A new type of business for a new decade?

2019 election special on how the manifestos reflect changing expectations of the role of business in society

Blogs

6 December 2019

Election special: Times are changing for adult skills

Election Special: A fresh injection of funds and policy ideas are sorely needed for our skills system. How do the efforts of our main political parties stack up?

Blogs

8 January 2020

How changes to government spending could promote inclusive growth

Rosie Stock-Jones describes how changes to the principles of spending allocation can help achieve inclusive growth

News

21 January 2020

The Guardian highlights CPP's work on local differences in healthy life expectancy

The Guardian highlights CPP's work on local differences in healthy life expectancy as academics reveal widening health gap between higher and lower socioeconomic groups.

News

21 January 2020

CPP features in an article in The Independent on the importance of good business

CPP features in article by former MP Chuka Umunna which highlights the need for a new type of business for the 2020s.

News

27 January 2020

CPP's Zoë Billingham awarded Crook Public Service Fellowship

The Crook Public Service Fellowship provides future leaders with the opportunity to take part in collaborative projects with academics to address pressing policy issues.

Blogs

4 February 2020

Time for a reset of industrial strategy?

We need to shift away from top-down supply side industrial strategy and towards bottom-up, place based strategies which put demand and supply side policies at their heart.

Blogs

10 February 2020

Why the apprenticeship levy needs less flexibility

The apprenticeship levy is a policy that was introduced with the best of intentions. However, less than three years since its introduction, the policy is on its knees.

Events

11 March 2020

Cancelled: From influence to action: Can behaviour change achieve a clean, inclusive economy?

We regret to inform you that tonight’s event with Robert H. Frank at the Centre for Progressive Policy has been cancelled.

Reports

Simply the best?

This report examines the role of the health service as an employer and provider of good jobs — utilising CPP’s Good Employer Index to rank all 223 NHS trusts.

Press releases

Press Release: Big differences in NHS employment practices puts patients and local economies at risk

This report examines the role of the health service as an employer and provider of good jobs — utilising CPP’s Good Employer Index to rank all 223 NHS trusts.

News

24 February 2020

Exclusive: NHS ‘falls short’ on social mobility, think tank warns

The Health Service Journal covered CPP's latest report examining the role of the NHS as an employer and provider of good jobs.

Blogs

24 February 2020

How can the NHS become the best employer?

As demand for care surges and recruitment becomes more difficult, the NHS needs to work harder to be a better employer, writes Ben Franklin in the Health Service Journal.

Working papers

Productivity knocks

This working paper argues that investment in social infrastructure has long-run economic returns, but that the current spending system has led it to be neglected.

Press releases

Press Release: Levelling up agenda will fail if the government ignores spending on social infrastructure

This working paper argues that investment in social infrastructure has long-run economic returns, but that the current spending system has led it to be neglected.

News

11 March 2020

Can UK infrastructure spending address regional deficits?

Ahead of the Chancellor's Budget, the Financial Times refers to CPP's latest paper on social infrastructure.