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Domestic violence increased during the time of the pandemic, which resulted in increased domestic violence related deaths, hospital admissions as well as increases of causes of concern by agencies about victims (as well as children and family members through witnessing and experiencing the domestic violence words and behaviour). The reasons for this are carried andContinue reading “Education provision and reflective work for secondary school pupils as a preventive to reduce DV.”

The UK is overweight and sedentary. Noises were made about getting people out cycling in lockdown but enthusiasm wanes quickly and solutions are focused on cycle lanes in city centres which doesn‚’t help people or families who live further out. We need a Big Bang solution that is accessible to many more people.    Continue reading “Getting the UK on their bikes”

By charging a levy on all UK INTERNET SALES, we would start to realise increased finances from previously uncharged taxes. This would give an increase to a level playing field in the retail trade and provide fresh opportunities to regenerate the high streets as a result. The government would have increased tax revenue from bothContinue reading “Opportunity now arises to charge a revenue levy on all internet based goods suppliers”

The government for many reasons, incl economic and environmental reasons, need to get more people using public transport. COVID has hit trains, tubes and busses very hard as people have begun to work from home more and more. When offices reopen we need to get people moving again.     92-1

Covid-19 – not managed with equal dexterity globally. It is a complex problem. Key challenges, consequences and opportunities relate to three interrelated areas: • Key Challenges: o Complex problem: § Multiple interacting factors, some unidentified – no simple chain of causality. § Small change to single factor – significant change in outcomes. § Problematic toContinue reading “Covid -19: Opportunities presented by the key challenges of complexity, uncertainty and communication”

The key challenge is to do with the mental health issues compounded by Covid. In areas where suicide rates have rocketed and where PTSD rates are high many other mental health issues have come into play. The key challenge is to recognize that those with the virus and those mental health issues were effected byContinue reading “Prevention of mental ill-health Post-Covid”

Can we do without more work? Of course. Can we do without a little more leisure? Probably not. Since the evolution of man, from a primates to homo sapiens, one of the overarching themes of human existence has been leisure. Our physical and psychological being thrives on leisure as it provides us with physical relaxationContinue reading “A compromise for the future?”

The pandemic has highlighted a problem which has been around for some time, but has been placed into sharp relief by the events of 2020. This problem is a shortfall in the administrative disciplines required for the delivery of challenging government initiatives. This is the result of a civil service that has lost the abilityContinue reading “Failure to Deliver is the Result of Failure in Administration”

There are approximately 3-4m people who have been excluded from the Government support schemes for Covid-19. Included in this group of people are the newly self-employed, who hadn’t submitted a tax return last year; those in the so-called 50/50 group, under SEISS (Self-employment Income Support Scheme) who have less than 50% of their total earningsContinue reading “Excluded from Covid Support”

The hospitality sector has been particularly hard hit by Covid-19. There is a high correlation of local economies particularly dependent on this sector in tourist areas. Many of these are coastal communities. I have a specific proposal for how to improve coastal economies which I have put forward in question 2. In general, however localContinue reading “Rebuilding Economies in Tourist Areas”