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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””

It has become clearer than ever through Covid, that children and young people’s mental and physical health are inextricably linked. As things stand one of the biggest burgeoning crises in our society is the catastrophic level of obesity and overweight pupils of school age, due to unhealthy and sedentary lifestyles, and lack of meaningful provisionContinue reading “To provide mental/physical wellbeing sessions for all school age pupils as part of curriculum”

We capitalise on this opportunity by reframing and reimagining how we think about citizenship, in general, and supporting young people, in particular. Although there are no simple solutions to complex problems it is possible to suggest that thinking about ‘the civic journey’ offers huge potential in terms of thinking about supporting individuals and building communities.Continue reading “Redefining the Civic Journey”

Summary This proposal is about enabling innovative ideas from both business and individuals to be input to Government, harnessing the tremendous amount of Knowledge, Skills and Experience in the population. It fills an existing gap in our democratic system by proposing the introduction of a powerful Digital Ideas System fully exploiting today’s technology, in particularContinue reading “A Powerhouse of Innovative Ideas”

Add 3 more year groups to the state education system: Nursery 1 (1-2yrs), Nursery 2 (2-3yrs), and Nursery 3 (3-4yrs). School hours (9-3:30) would be free, and school meals would be provided for those eligible. Parents would just pay for hours needed outside of the 9-3:30 day, with the hourly rate being proportional to theirContinue reading “Expand free child care to 1yr+”

Summary: To repair the eroded bonds of social cohesion by empowering our communities, the UK will use an innovative financial bond – the world’s first Social Cohesion Bond. This will attract investors switching into sustainable environmental and social investments. We’ll place the cheaply-financed money raised into a National Social Cohesion Fund. Having impact in 2021Continue reading “Build social bonds with a Social Bond”