A growing number of donor governments have slashed their Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets in recent years. Despite polling showing consistently high public support for development, these cuts have been met with little to no public resistance. In this context, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) commissioned Public First to
Public First has conducted polling for The Richmond Project on the UK’s attitudes towards the numbers that people use in their everyday lives. The polling has found that: Ninety percent of adults in the UK agree that being able to use numbers is an important skill and a majority (seventy-five
Public First has today published new qualitative research exploring the political instincts of the young people who will become the first 16- and 17-year-olds eligible to vote at a UK general election – a group whose political identities are already beginning to take shape. Download the report The research is based on
Today Public First launches ‘What Parents Value in Education’, the first report in a three-part series from the Parent Voice Project – a new initiative exploring parents’ experiences of the education system in England. Founded by Fiona Forbes, the project aims to address a long-standing gap in national education debates: while teachers, unions and policymakers are regularly consulted, parents – who see the system up close every
Homes carry meaning far beyond their walls. They are where people raise families, take pride in improving, and express who they are. Yet the very places that matter most to people also pose one of our biggest collective challenges: Britain’s homes are among the leakiest in Europe, draughty, gas-dependent, and
In the words of Reform UK’s Head of Policy Zia Yusuf at the 2025 Reform Party Conference, Reform is ‘not a party built on views about education’. Instead, they coalesce around, primarily, a desire to reduce net migration. As a result, the nascent party is yet to flesh out a