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Summary: To help stop abuse and sexual assault, develop small smart speakers hidden in homes and in apps on phones, which automatically turn on when a specific sentence is used and then start recording and uploading the audio and the location to a secure cloud monitored by police, providing a safe way for individuals inContinue reading “Protecting Against Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault”

The Civil Service needs a mechanism for drafting in outside talent at all levels in crisis situations, like the process used at Bletchley Park in WW2. For example the Ministry of Justice had to deal with greatly disrupted Courts and Prison situations, using a reduced staff. At the same time there were many furloughed solicitorsContinue reading “A Bletchley Park for Subject Matter Experts from outside the Civil Service”

When it comes to reconstruction, it is time to put a stopper on the idea that the best thing we can do is Build Build Build. The construction industry, although given a fairly free hand during this year, is actually one of the least of our worries. It can be slowed down and restarted withoutContinue reading “Where to next? Slow building is the future”

Retired teachers from all disciplines could be asked to help in their local school. Use the Teachers Pension Agency to match teacher with school. Secondary teachers in English, Mathematics and Science should give very small group tuition (two or three per group) in their own subject. All other teachers should help with English skills inContinue reading “Using retired teachers to bridge the gaps.”

Current Recruitment of Retired Doctors and Nurses suggest unnecessary bureaucracy . Extraordinary circumstances require an extraordinary response. Never has there been a need to fast track a willing previously qualified workforce so swiftly that they are in a state of readiness to respond to this National Emergency, yet there is a suggestion that a businessContinue reading “Reducing Red Tape to Save Lives”

Summary: Enact a law to enable private companies, regulated by government, to pursue serious tax evaders; anyone caught would have to pay the tax evaded back to government and also the same amount to the company that caught them. It would reduce government costs and increase tax revenues, a real win-win, and also shows theContinue reading “Ending Tax Evasion”

The Covid-19 pandemic has afforded the opportunity to find new solutions to fruit and vegetable harvesting problems posed by immigrant labour supply shortages and the restrictions on labour movement around the U.K. Sustainable solutions to these problems need to address the issues of reliance on migrant labour from abroad, difficulties of the movement of harvestContinue reading “Sustainable solutions to the challenges created by coronavirus for the harvesting of UK seasonal crops.”

The use of drones are classified into two categories and each of the fields can be exploited to capitalize fully on its potential i.e. 1)Drone use in combating COVID 19 pandemic; 2)Drone use Supportive activities. The use and their details are provided in the following sections: 1.Drone use cases in combating COVID 19: a.Spraying disinfectantsContinue reading “the global uses of drone to fill glaring gaps in resources.”

We need a comprehensive, integrated framework to address the nation’s health, with a series of short, medium, and long-term initiatives to deliver the necessary transformation. Some examples of such initiatives are set out below. 1. Envision, evolve, experiment Given projections of demographics and the incidences of major lifestyle diseases, together with the impact of issuesContinue reading “Transform the nation’s health to make the UK the world leader by 2040”

The pandemic has presented an opportunity to redefine working life. Flexible work patterns have shown that the traditionally structured work day is increasingly antiquated. Instead, the pandemic presents an opportunity to reconsider the definition of a working day moving from hours worked to outcomes achieved. We have long known that the productivity cycles of individualsContinue reading “Moving to a outcome based working day”