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The Problem – ensuring, restoring and maintaining public trust in Government policy making Although initially greeted with broad public approval, over the course of the pandemic public trust in the political and policy mantra of ‘follow the science’ has wavered. Which science ? Whose science ? Have become increasingly relevant questions, that threaten to destabiliseContinue reading “Following the Science? ‘ Keeping faith in science-driven policy making”

To reduce the movement of goods we need to promote better use of our existing products. We need to create a personal carbon credits which are used for everything we purchase. These credits Will be equally distributed across the population and could be traded. All products would be clearly labelled including air travel. You canContinue reading “Personal carbon allowance”

Solution. Ten pence recycle charge added to purchase price. Like the charge for plastic bags in supermarkets introduced recently this would not be a tax. Council waste disposal sites would accept the return of plastic bottles and drinks cans 25 at a time. £2.50 would be credited to the relevant bank account, which might beContinue reading “Environmental Problem. Drinks cans and plastic and glass bottles, littering, pavement and open spaces”

This is a simple idea to implement, has low cost but will have a significant impact on both: • The global crisis of climate change by bringing it gently and daily to the consumer, • while also stimulating demand for UK manufacturing and farming which will help with the re-levelling across the UK, post-Brexit. MyContinue reading “Thoughts to bring climate change to the consumer so stimulating demand for UK products”

Summary: Jeremy Heywood left a legacy of an innovative, locally-led programme (Greater Manchester’s Working Well pilot) that demonstrated it could improve resilience even in challenging circumstances, where other programmes had failed. Building Back Resilience proposes to take the learning from this work and apply it to the challenge of the impact on unemployment and mentalContinue reading “Building Back Resilience: an integrated approach in the aftermath of an Anti-Social Virus.”

The Government is faced with the three challenges as briefly outlined in 1.b. and is hosting the Climate Summit in Glasgow, which this solution could highlight as available to all wealthy western nations, as well as the UK. Very simply, it would legislate that all new housing should have photovoltaic cells, to generate electricity, installedContinue reading “Employment-Poverty-Energy-Solution”

The challenges we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic has given us the chance to re-imagine our society and think about how we want to live in the future and also to think about what values are important for us to live by. My solution to the challenge of providing a society in which all theContinue reading “Universal Basic Income a Solution for a Secure Society”

No single policy intervention will ‘fix’ the structural inequalities that lie behind this ethnic and racial disparity. However, one place to start could be in agreeing on a more effective framing of this whole theme. As the summer of protests demonstrated in 2020, the language we currently possess when it comes to talking about raceContinue reading “From BAME to ‘Ethnic Minority in Britain’ – a changing approach to ethnic disparities”

I’m not a medic and my exposure to stress has been limited to working in a classroom for 40 years. My only experience of grief is limited to bereavements. I took advantage of counselling and discovered that counselling is all about listening. You unburden- someone listens. Counsellors don’t have solutions or give advice, they listenContinue reading “Listeners”

So, if this is an opportunity, what would be the first thing to do? The first would be to check I am right: that there is no hidden reserve of high quality, syllabus linked computer games out there. The second would be to ask “why”? Why are there no educational computer games? Providers must haveContinue reading “Research and Putting Together a Toe in the Water “Pitch””