NAO Report: Increasing Construction Skills

by SCTP | Jul 19, 2026 | News

This National Audit Office report assesses the government’s progress since launching its construction skills package.

Government Agrees Expansion to Brighton & Hove Boundary as Part of Wider Programme of Local Government Reorganisation

by SCTP | Jul 19, 2026 | News

Residents and local businesses across Brighton & Hove, East Saltdean, Telscombe and Peacehaven will be brought together under a new local authority area, following confirmation from the government today. Brighton & Hove City Council will now work closely with...

East Sussex Leaders Call for Government to Reconsider Unpopular Plan for Council Reorganisation

by SCTP | Jul 19, 2026 | News

East Sussex leaders have called on ministers to urgently reconsider plans to move about 26,000 residents into an expanded Brighton & Hove. Click here for more.

If the New Prime Minister is Serious About the Next Generation, it Starts With the Disadvantage Gap

by SCTP | Jul 19, 2026 | News

The Education Policy Institute has been tracking the disadvantage gap – the difference in educational outcomes between socio-economically disadvantaged children and young people and their peers – for a decade. In this report they analyse children’s results in key...

The Great Escape: Why Britain is Stuck in a Fiscal Funk and How we can Break Free

by SCTP | Jul 19, 2026 | News

This Resolution Foundation report is the first in a series on the size and shape of the state, and how the public finances can be better managed in an era of low growth and high uncertainty. It diagnoses how Britain fell into its seemingly endless fiscal funk and sets...