Education in the 2025 Spending Review: impossible choices?

In this year’s IFS annual report on education spending in England, we analyse the choices and pressures on education spending facing the government in the 2025 Spending Review. This is in addition to our core analysis examining how education spending has evolved across different phases of education.
At the event, IFS researchers will begin by setting out the main conclusions of this year’s annual report. A panel of expert speakers with direct experience of previous spending reviews will provide their views on the pressures on education spending and how the government is likely to manage the very difficult fiscal choices in the 2025 Spending Review. The panel will include:
Baroness Anne Longfield - Executive Chair and Founder of the Centre for Young Lives and former Children’s Commissioner for England
Jonathan Slater - former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education
Professor Tim Leunig - Director at Public First, former Special Advisor at HM Treasury and the Department for Education