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Can Wales fill the social care funding gap?

Can Wales fill the social care funding gap? The funding of adult social care has moved centre stage. There is wide agreement that more money…

A scrape of jam today, mixed with gruel tomorrow?

We have become so accustomed to austerity that even a few, in some cases fairly modest, spending announcements get big headlines. The main focus of…

A delicate balance? Health & Social Care spending in Wales

The team at Wales Public Services 2025 have produced an important briefing paper on health & social care spending in Wales. The report focuses on…

Wales Public Services 2025 contributes to the Institute for Fiscal Studies Green Budget

Our Research Associate Dr Daria Luchinskaya has been contributing as a joint author for the chapter on UK health and social care in the Green…

A sniff of jam? Blog by Dr Daria Luchinskaya

The flurry of pre-Christmas fiscal activity in Wales will not much affect the fundamentals for public services for next year although there is some good…

The November 2016 OBR Economic and Fiscal Outlook pointed to lower growth and lower real wages over the next few years, while the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement prioritised capital investment over day-to-day public services costs: what are the implications for Wales?

A presentation was given by our Research Associate Dr Daria Luchinskaya. There was also time for some debate. Many thanks to those who attended -…

Chancellor prioritises investment not public services

The economy and post-Brexit uncertainties was clearly uppermost in the Chancellor’s mind yesterday rather than public services. The Autumn Statement, informed by the OBR’s first…

A Budget for Uncertainty ? Michael Trickey’s thoughts about the new budget

Most of the political interest around the Welsh Government’s draft budget has inevitably centred on the deal with Plaid Cymru. But in fiscal terms, there…

A time of revolution: British local government finance in the 2010s

This is the first report in a new multi-year IFS research programme examining these major changes to local government finance. The programme will consider the…

Efficiency and the NHS Wales Funding Gap – report by the Public Policy Institute for Wales

In Spring 2016, working with Wales Public Services 2025, the PPIW ran a series of facilitated workshops exploring how further ‘technical’ efficiency could help close…

The path to sustainability. Funding projections for the NHS in Wales to 2019/20 and 2030 - the Health Foundation

Wales Public Services 2025 has worked with the Health Foundation and the Public Policy Institute for Wales on this report. Read it in full here.

Read Michael Trickey’s blog on the new report from the Health Foundation about the NHS in Wales

Route map for a sustainable NHS for Wales Yesterday’s highly significant report by The Health Foundation, The path to sustainability: financial projections for NHS Wales,…

Michel Trickey’s blog on the new IFS report on budgetary trade-offs for the Welsh Government

Director of Wales Public Services 2025 Michael Trickey has written a blog on the new report. Please read it here.

Welsh Government faces difficult budgetary trade-offs and uncertain times

Given the plans and forecasts set out in the UK government’s March 2016 budget, the Welsh Government’s budget could be cut by 3.2% in real…

WPS 2025/IFS presentation on Welsh budgetary trade-offs 2019-20

Presentation given by David Phillips & Polly Simpson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Read the presentation here.

Welsh Government budgetary trade-offs - report by IFS. Press release

Read the press release on the report commissioned by Wales Public Services 2025 - Welsh budgetary trade-offs to 2019-20. Produced by David Phillips and Polly…

What does a new Government in Wales mean for public services and the growing divergence from England?

Turbulent Times Ahead? The third in a series of four roundtables on the challenges ahead for Welsh public services and their finances. Briefing notes from…

Are Wales public services ready for Brexit?

Whether or not to leave the EU will be the biggest decision facing the UK for generations to come. Campaigners on both sides are vigorously…

Implications of Brexit on public services in Wales

Turbulent Times Ahead? The second in a series of four roundtables on the challenges ahead for Welsh public services and their finances. Briefing notes from…

Implications of party manifestos on public services

Turbulent Times Ahead? A series of four roundtables on the challenges ahead for Welsh public services and their finances, April – July 2016. Our first…