News - Wales Public Services 2025

Student blog. Spending on the police and justice in Wales over the last decade

This blog has been developed by Theo Bazett under the CUROP programme which provides summer placements for undergraduate students at Cardiff University. We asked Theo,…

Income & funding of Welsh Voluntary sector post austerity

Our new report on the income and funding of the Welsh voluntary sector in the post-2010 austerity period by Dr Nikos Kapitsinis. …

CLOSING THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE FUNDING GAP IN WALES – can we stop worrying now?

The announcement by the UK Government that spending on the NHS will increase by an average of 3.4% in real terms a year from 2019-20…

Conference 12th July. Sustaining Wales’ Public Services: Austerity and Beyond

Public services in Wales have been through the severest financial squeeze since the Second World War. How has this squeeze affected their finances? Is…

New report - Business rates in Wales, local retention and regional growth deals

Retention of business rates in Wales? We consider the issue of local retention of business rates in Wales in relation to the new and emerging…

Spring Statement 2018: austerity continues

In this blog we comment on the OBR forecasts and the picture that they paint for the economy in the coming years, as well as…

The Cost of Caring for an Ageing Population - submission to the Finance Committee of the National Assembly for Wales

Our researcher Joseph Ogle has sent this submission to the Finance Committee. The evidence set out in this paper primarily comes from our analysis of…

A little extra for health & social care and local government will help but does not reverse austerity

The final Welsh Budget laid on the 19th of December 2017 allocated an additional £251m for day-to-day resource spending over the next two years compared…

After Brexit?

Read the report published by the Bevan Foundation in partnership with Wales Public Services 2025 on what Brexit might mean for public services in Wales,…

First impressions of the Autumn Budget 2017 impact on Wales

In this blog we share some of our first impressions of the Autumn Budget 2017 and the impact on Wales. Downward revisions to OBR forecasts…

Austerity and Local Government in Wales: an analysis of income and spending priorities, 2009-10 to 2016-17

A look back at the impacit of austerity on local government. …

On the horns of a dilemma – how should Welsh public services be planning for Brexit?

Recent comments from Michael Bloomberg and the row over the letter from MP Chris Heaton-Harris to universities serve to confirm that the debate over Brexit…

A challenging year? Draft budget revealed and allocations analysed.

The allocations are in the details: 2019-20 looks set to be a challenging year The outline Welsh Draft Budget 2018-19 showed that overall, the total…

New tools, new approaches but austerity still a straightjacket

The Draft Welsh Budget published yesterday represented an important milestone in the development of Welsh fiscal policy, taking advantage of Wales’ new tax powers and…

‘Welsh Government Budgetary Trade-offs: Looking Forward to 2021-22’

Wales Public Services 2025 and the Wales Governance Centre have released a joint new report. The report sets out the key changes to the UK…

Does the DUP deal signal an end to austerity for public services?

Does the deal with the DUP signal an end to Austerity? A furious row has broken out about the extent to which the UK Government…

The future funding of health and older adult social care in Wales:

Have any of our political parties got a grip on the challenge ahead? All the main political parties in England are proposing to increase…

What the Conservative and Liberal Democrat manifestos could mean for Wales

Mixed messages on tax, welfare and net increases in resource spending underlie significant differences in the Conservative and Liberal Democrat manifesto pledges of key relevance…

What Labour UK and Plaid Cymru are saying about spending in Wales

Although the political parties are issuing individual policy commitments day by day, Wales Public Services 2025 is concentrating on the published manifestos and their implications…

PROMISES, PROMISES …what we shall be looking out for in the party manifestos

As the campaign heats up and with the party manifestos expected to start appearing next week, election promises will multiply. At Wales Public Services 2025,…