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CCAP : Council Compulsory Acquisition Programme: would work as follows: 1. The law should be changed to allow Councils to acquire (not purchase) legal ownership of any building or land not used (say) for 5 years. 2. Councils would have a small work force to identify land or buildings that have not been used forContinue reading “CCAP. Council Compulsory Acquisition Programme”

Summary: A two-part policy to improve the safety of professional rugby players and the safety of rugby playing pupils in schools. The first proposal, inspired by Paralympic team sports, is to create weight categories for rugby players with associated points for each category, with only a certain number of points allowed on the pitch atContinue reading “A Rule Conversion to Level the Rugby Playing Field”

Experienced supply teachers are leaving the profession to work in better paid employment, such as stacking shelves in supermarkets. However, there is a solution and it is closer to hand than you might think. Around 25 years ago, most supply teachers in the UK were employed through local authority (LA) supply pools. On the whole,Continue reading “Currently, supply teaching in England and Wales is unsustainable.”

As a teacher myself, one of the concerning side-effects of lockdown has been the closure of schools. Delivery of a full curriculum has been compromised for many children and young people, particularly those who did not have easy access to technology or a quiet space to work in their home. My idea would be toContinue reading “An online ‘catch-up’ service, accessible to all, to address gaps in learning during the pandemic.”

The Covid pandemic has demonstrated the need for a more localised approach to delivering policies. There have been many examples during the last ten months of situations where local delivery has been shown to be highly effective in addressing specific issues. One example is the track and trace system. The national system never really effectivelyContinue reading “Delivering a localised approach to policy delivery”

To restore confidence in the care Home system and encourage potential new residents, we need to re-emphasize the idea of safety among care homes, and it’s very important after the failure which we have witnessed during the pandemic in care homes, the failure is an indicator of bad policies which do not fit with theContinue reading “Towards international standardized norms of care homes facilities”

By the immediate, unilateral, application of an OODC of 35% of the costs of goods (not shipping or packaging charges) for every order that is invoiced from a non-UK location (in the majority of cases, Luxemburg or the Channel Islands). This must be declared by the selling organization and remitted to the UK or devolvedContinue reading “An Overseas Online Delivery Charge (OODC)”

Health and social care must be taken out of the reach of politicians with short-term horizons by establishing a Health and Social Care Policy Committee (HSCPC) with a remit covering not only the NHS, but crucially other health and social care as well (which the NHS has been demonstrated to depend on during this pandemic).Continue reading “Create a Health and Social Care Policy Committee to Encourage Sustainable Long-term Planning”

Example: Go to a pet shop and buy loose bird seed and no vat added. If that bird seed comes in a sealed bag that has been bagged else where then vat is added to that bird seed purchase. This is a ludicrous concept as its still bird seed. Food, for human consumption, in theContinue reading “Vat on Food”

Climate change will challenge this country and exert global pressures, which too will impact. A key challenge and opportunity would be to initiate the leadership, development and part financing of a multi sector international team. This team would be challenged to find novel ways of capturing and redesigning CO2 into an environmentally safe product. OpportunityContinue reading “A different perspective on solving climate change, learning from global vaccine development”