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The public are eating into their savings and what they do have they are getting no interest on. Whilst small businesses need capital.     753-1

During lockdown, people drink and consume more calories. Britain is already an unhealthy nation and the NHS is tasked with repairing the damage caused by obesity, diabetes etc at immense cost. Britain is also one of the dirtiest countries in Europe with 30m tonnes of litter dropped on UK streets a year costing councils 1bnContinue reading “Buried in Rubbish”

Education for children of all ages, from different backgrounds and classes. Children will all have different levels of support from family. Some parents are home full time and available, some with other children to take care of, some working from home, working elsewhere, childcare arrangements sometimes have to be taken into consideration. Children are allContinue reading “The challenges of education during periods of lockdown.”

The Covid-19 crisis has exposed weaknesses in U.K. food security and supply chains, particularly in relation to seasonal and perishable foods. The Covid-19 crisis has resulted in reduced international travel to and from the U.K., including the migrant labour force, mainly from Europe, needed to harvest fruit and vegetable crops. The situation has been compoundedContinue reading “Opportunities created by the Covid-19 pandemic to rethink the harvesting of UK seasonal crops.”

In 2019 the world at last woke up to a much more existential threat for humanity than COVID – that of climate change. Groups like Extinction Rebellion had “woke” large parts of the population and many governments had at least greenwashed their policies. 2020 was to be the year when continued popular and legal pressureContinue reading “COVID has lost time in the battle against climate change, recovery may make it worse!”

Regular reform of the public health and social care system with only short-term goals in mind, and without careful consideration for the underlying causes of increased demand for services or their inefficient provision, is a key issue highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which the government should now address. Nowhere is this more apparent than withinContinue reading “Highlighting the Damage Caused Using Public Health and Social Care as a Short-term Political Tool”

Covid 19 has thrown the legal system in to disarray as court cases, unable to be heard, have now reached 53,000 for crown courts and over 400,000 for magistrates courts. It will be a particular challenge to work through this backlog and restore justice. An opportunity exist to get through this backlog by using theContinue reading “Using covid hospital sites to get through the courts backlog”

The past months have been uncertain and scariest as the world faced the greatest pandemic and exposed the gaps in a lot of countries’ policies and implementation strategies towards achieving inclusive sustainable development. I saw the inequalities in the education system broadening up as schools premises were forced to shut and opt for online learningContinue reading “The forgotten Masses”

During this second lockdown, the move to home learning for school children will once more significantly impact their education. The impact of the lack of internet access and computers for our most disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK, means the education attainment disadvantage gap is widening rapidly. This gap is not easilyContinue reading “Home Learning Boost”

The UK has had a clear residential housing crisis for some time now. According to the BBC, the housing crisis affects some 8.4 million Britons, and the Government has been planning to build 300,000 new homes each year. However they have fallen short, and built less that 250,000 last year. With the Coronavirus meaning thatContinue reading “Solving the housing crisis”