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Making Bankers Swear for the Better
29th May 2015
Media Coverage
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City AM: FCA watchdog Martin Wheatley: I am not hunting for bankers’ scalps
29th May 2015
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FT: Bank middle management is regulatory ‘blind spot’, says watchdog
29th May 2015
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BBC Radio 2: Phillip Blond on CivilisedBank’s adoption of bankers’ oath
28th May 2015
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Freed from coalition, UK’s Cameron swings to the right
28th May 2015
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Reuters UK: Martin Wheatley calls for ‘common sense’ at ResPublica event
28th May 2015
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BBC News Channel: Phillip Blond discusses the 2015 Queen’s Speech
27th May 2015
Media Coverage
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Press Release: Vocational Banking
27th May 2015
Press Releases
The public has lost faith in bankers.
Scandal after scandal, about dodgy dealings and bankers on the fiddle, has left the financial industry in turmoil.
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Crafting Skills & Harnessing Creativity
26th May 2015
News
To coincide with the first week of Parliament and the Queen’s speech, ResPublica have teamed up with the Crafts Council to bring you a series of blog posts in the Disraeli Room that discuss the role of crafts in the UK economy.
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The True Meaning of Work: Why Economic Independence holds the key to tackling unemployment
18th May 2015
News
With the General Election over and Ministerial positions finalised, the government must now turn its attention to implementing its manifesto and addressing the nation’s deep social and economic issues.
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.@DamianCollins Employer organisations have a responsibility to take on young people, to train them, and give them… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Has the UK relied too heavily on migrant workers? I don’t think we’ll reach an equilibrium point wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@abicadams: How important will green employment be? Good question. There’s been a lot of work done here by the OEC… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Two interesting points here. First, the wider wellbeing issue. Work does not feel fulfilling for many peo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Q: Is there a danger of commoditising the workforce? Yes, and the gig economy is an extreme exampl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK There’s a massive under-investment of companies in their workers’ human capital. Within the tax syst… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Sure, you could have a Charter of Standards, but will companies enforce it? Having a minimum amoun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins In the gig economy, your success in getting a job is dictated by an algorithm. That doesn’t feel l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins There’s no consistency in how the gig economy is regulated. We need to set common standards. Howev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Is that right? We need to look at this in the context of workers’ rights *and* also the way in whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Taking part this morning in @res_publica @jrf_uk event on tackling unemployment and poverty- focusing my contribution on h…
.@DamianCollins In the gig economy, people are committed to a lot of waiting-around time. And there are fewer in-w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Not all people who work in the gig economy work exclusively within it. This is, however, a growing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Every mind has the opportunity to push itself further, whether that’s in HE or FE or employment-base… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Arguments about student finance do not deal with the perceptions and realities of debt. We need to u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK For example, when you look at the Maintenance Loan, that sum is deducted from Universal Credit. Here… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK One solution: a leveling-up education fund that is micro-targeted. We also need to look at structura… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK 1 in 9 working adults have no qualifications, but this varies from constituency to constituency. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Furlough provides us with a moment to take stock and focus on the training of workers. We have a str… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes The government has committed to an Employment Bill. That’s a welcome development. However, we should have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes What sort of labour market do we want to rebuild? 1/8 workers are in poverty. That’s not good enough. Com… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Insecure work lowers morale, while businesses invest less in the skills of their transient staff. UK busi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Rising employment rates should generate falling poverty. But as the employment rate reached a record 76%… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Work itself is becoming less effective in providing adequate earnings, even as the National Living Wage w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Half of care workers are earning less than the living wage. And if you were on a zero-hours contract, yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@BenChu_: Do you have a view about the low-income insecure workforce?
@abicadams 30-35% of new jobs are being a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…