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The pandemic has created many problems and much hardship indiscriminately across our nation, presenting challenges to both people and business previously never imagined. These challenges can and will be overcome and with a little creative thinking may prove a springboard to a better and more successful future. Covid’s effect on employment has been dramatic, fromContinue reading “Starter for Ten: Inspiring Britain’s workers with hope and optimism whilst retooling business for a better future”

The mental health of our nation’s children was highlighted as a priority in the NHS ten year plan. Before the pandemic, the availability of children and young people’s mental health services were sadly inadequate. Many areas have tried and failed to increase provision of mental health services for children and young people. Devastatingly, the pandemicContinue reading “Improving access to treatment for children and young people with critical mental health problems”

No system or structure is fool-proof but some are better than others. The point is that for too long the NHS has been used as a political football and there has been a lack of transparency, or honesty about the real cost of providing such a comprehensive and universal public service. There is an urgentContinue reading “My National Health Service – Rethinking the funding of ‘My NHS’”

Problem The Kickstart scheme will help some young people find employment; however, it has been criticised for not lasting long enough and not really incentivising companies to keep on apprentices. Plus, there is a looming jobs crisis and we cannot rely on retail and hospitality to drive the jobs recovery as it did in theContinue reading “Upstart – a complementary start-up scheme to the Kickstart scheme”

Prior to lock down I had been involved training local volunteers in skills to recognize those at risk of suicide and self-harm in an area of deprivation and high suicide rates. I believe that the potential is there to train people at local level and advertise it in the same way as “Neighbourhood Watch” schemesContinue reading “The training of community volunteers in “safe talk” and intervention skills for those at risk.”

We need a long term shift in behaviour, but this does not necessarily need long term investment. At the moment, unemployment is on the rise. In London Litter and Waste Enforcement Officers can earn in excess of £27k, and have the authority to issue Fixed Penalty Notices for littering. Enforcement Officers can generate revenue byContinue reading “Enforcement could reduce unemployment, generate revenue AND improve our shared green spaces”

The empty shops that now line our high streets, with more certainly to come before this pandemic is over, are a source of despair to retailers who have lost their livelihoods, and of concern and disappointment to shoppers and citizens, threatening individual and societal wellbeing. However, might there be an opportunity not only to provideContinue reading “A government scheme to turn empty retail units into employment hubs for the disabled”

There are a few things that must be done to try to fix the afore mentioned problem: 1) Encourage transactions of housing from landlords to tenants 2) Support a mechanism that allows a % of tenants rent to go toward purchasing the property Landlords would opt into the ‘rent to buy scheme’ after completing aContinue reading “Rent to Buy | A win win solution to escape the rental trap”

To protect employees from the more negative aspects of working from home or the potential opportunities they miss, the Government could set up local work-desks. These would essentially be offices that the Government provides with available work space campuses for people to book out. This would first and foremost assist people who don’t have theContinue reading

We create real-time roadside displays illustrating pollution levels at busy junctions and crossroads. I own a wine shop in south east London, where the pollution levels are regularly 55mg. The legal level is 40. I think if there was an electronic board which showed what that day’s pollution was, and what that meant, people wouldContinue reading “Roadside air pollution displays”