Education and Social Policy
Our Services
Our Education and Social Policy team helps shape reforms that improve life chances and strengthen public services. We combine deep expertise in education systems, skills, welfare and social policy with political insight and rigorous research to support decision-makers navigating complex and often contested policy debates.
Public First delivers targeted research, strategy and policy advice across schools, further and higher education, skills, childcare, welfare and wider social policy. We help clients understand how public attitudes, frontline experience and political priorities intersect, and what that means for reform, funding and delivery.
Our team works across polling and qualitative research, stakeholder engagement, policy analysis and economic assessment to inform white papers, funding settlements, programme design and public affairs strategy. We focus on practical, implementable solutions, ensuring proposals are grounded in evidence, responsive to the realities of delivery, and framed in ways that resonate with ministers, officials, practitioners and the public.
