Making individuals agents of their own change

The report, the third in the series on welfare for Reform by Frank Field MP, the former Minister for Welfare Reform, presents new findings from a focus group of young unemployed people on welfare services.
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Welfare isn't working – child poverty

The second report in Frank Field MPs’ series shows that progress on child poverty has stalled despite extra spending equivalent to a 4p cut in the basic rate of income tax.
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Welfare isn't working – New Deal for Young People

The first in Frank Field MPs’ series of welfare reports for Reform. The report shows that the New Deal for Young People has so far cost £1.9 billion yet the numbers of unemployed young people are higher now than at the programme’s launch in April 1998.
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Reforming welfare

The report by Nick Boys Smith, Consultant Director of Reform, is a definitive review of current and past welfare policy. It draws on international experience to make constructive proposals for welfare reform.
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Spending without reform

Reform established the Commission on the Reform of Public Services in February 2002. The government's mantra of "investment tied to reform" is acknowledgement that, without reform of the public sector, higher spending will be wasted.
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