Lizzie Ingram was joined by Dr. Julian Grenier, who highlighted several critical aspects of early years policy and practice. Recent governmental shifts include expanding free entitlements to childcare ...

Stacked column chart showing electricity and gas bills from April 2020 to October 2024 for a typical household. Bills are broken into components: wholesale fuel costs, network costs, policy costs, ...

87% of respondents wanted to increase the number of heat pumps they install each year, but reported challenges to making this a reality. Their largest challenge with increasing heat pump installations ...

Since publication of our ‘ How eating out contributes to our diets ’ report in 2024, Nesta has continued work to refine our understanding of the nutritional content of OOH purchases in the UK, ...

Gaps in cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes between disadvantaged children and their peers emerge early and persist. While research has mainly focused on economic disadvantage, other factors like ...

The post-pandemic rises in absence rates are staggering. The sudden surge in overall and persistent absence has left schools and policymakers scrambling for causes and solutions. Finding ways to bring ...

This report primarily uses data on heat pumps from EurObserv’er for the years between 2011 and 2021. The majority of the heat pumps in this dataset are air-to-air heat pumps, many of which are used ...

The UK has about 23 million gas boilers, all heating the oldest housing stock in Europe. Despite attempts to encourage heat pump adoptions, it’s expected that 10 million new boilers will be fitted ...

The heat pump survey paints a positive picture for the future of heat pump adoption, showing that the majority of users are satisfied with their system. It also highlighted some improvements that ...

Kate was one of the co-directors for People Powered Results, leading the delivery of transformation programmes within highly complex systems.

How lowering the cost ratio of electricity to gas permanently would help make heating greener The government's support for householders in the form of the Energy Price Guarantee not only kept energy ...

Disadvantaged children in England are absent from early-years education more often than their peers, according to new research from the innovation charity Nesta. In the first systematic effort to ...