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SUMMARY:Britain's Global Future: the diplomatic impact of UK civil society
DESCRIPTION:ResPublica is launching its latest report on British soft power and the vital role of institutions in British foreign policy. It explores the unique position of British institutions in stabilising nations and how\, when properly configured and supported\, institutions such as the BBC\, British Council\, universities and museums\, can provide mediation in some of the most socially\, culturally and economically fragmented parts of the world. \nThe event will feature a panel discussion\, with the following confirmed speakers: \n\nStephen Gethins MP\, Shadow SNP Spokesperson for Europe\nCrispin Blunt MP\, Acting Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (invited)\nAnthony Smith CMG\, CEO of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy\nCaroline Nursey\, CEO of BBC Media Action\nSir Ciarán Devane\, Chief Executive of the British Council\n\nJoining us will be a diverse range of senior representatives from across national and local government\, the media and industry. Please register for your place as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. To inquire for tickets\, email events@respublica.org.uk.
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/britains-global-future-diplomatic-impact-uk-civil-society/
LOCATION:House of Commons\, House of Commons\, Westminster\, London
CATEGORIES:Virtue
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SUMMARY:True North 2016: Realising the Northern Powerhouse
DESCRIPTION:On Friday 8th July\, ResPublica’s inaugural North conference Finding True North hosted over 250 leaders from across the North at the beautiful Lowry Theatre\, Salford. Covered by Manchester Evening News\, The Guardian\, The Times\, FT and on BBC Daily Politics\, the conference saw the launch of A Manifesto for the North mapping out the next steps for the Northern Powerhouse agenda and placing identity\, culture\, collaboration\, and innovation at its heart. \nWith keynote speakers including Greg Clark MP\, James Wharton MP and Dan Jarvis MP\, the conference and manifesto marks the start of our dedicated ResPublica North unit. \nFinding True North was an enormous success and will be returning in 2017 after welcoming over 50 representatives of Local Authorities from across the North\, more than 100 leaders from industry and academia\, dozens of voices from communities and civil society\, and a wealth of national and local journalists. \n\n\n\nAgenda \nThe Government’s Northern Powerhouse concept has unlocked the door to prosperity outside of the South-East\, and given the keys to regional leaders. A key test of this political move’s success will be how it translates into real change for the people who live there. Progress can not be judged solely on higher living standards or the number of jobs created. We must ensure that greater freedoms for citizens aren’t just economic\, but instead that this once in a generation opportunity enables communities to rebuild and society to improve. \nSuccessful cities and regions are also powerhouses for new ideas\, technological innovation and cultural creativity. Finding True North will foster debate as to how we re-awaken and nurture these capacities in our northern cities. We’ll be exploring whether there is an underpinning sense of identity and connection around which the North can build not only economic prosperity\, but forge a cultural and intellectual renaissance. \nThe North is filled with tremendous potential\, backed by a rich history of cultural diversity and intellectual curiosity. When taken together\, the region is home to a number of clear and powerful identities. Newly devolved powers should enable leaders to make use of these distinct identities\, defining a local region’s priorities and needs\, and fostering the pride that will rejuvenate rather than deter. The North has a proud history of creativity\, entrepreneurship\, independence and industry. Enabling collaboration between its businesses\, sectors\, communities and public services\, and fostering constructive and positive dialogue between newly invigorated and empowered local leaders and those who they are elected to serve. \nNorthern cities have for the most part moved to embrace the opportunities extended to them to in the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill. There is widespread agreement that ‘city deals’ will enable regeneration and improvement\, attracting inward investment necessary for creating a successful future for all its 22 million inhabitants. Without greater effort to collaborate and foster unity\, the region would be unable to escape historic under-performance of its economy and the Government’s ambition for a Northern Powerhouse will be left unfulfilled. \nResPublica’s trail-blazing report Devo Max – Devo Manc spearheaded the debate about city devolution\, arguing that Northern cities and regions developing broader autonomy would be a pre-condition for renewal. Finding True North will platform this discussion as the North embarks on an exciting age of opportunity. \n\nA Manifesto for the North \n \nLaunched on the 8th July at our flagship Finding True North conference in Salford\, A Manifesto for the North is our vision for the region harnessing further devolved powers; culturally vibrant and with the benefits of economic growth accrued to all. \nCommenting on the manifesto\, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP\, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government\, said: “This is an important and thought-provoking Manifesto that deserves to be carefully considered. The Government will work closely with partners across the North to devolve more power to people and places in order to realise our ambitious plans to build a Northern Powerhouse.” \nMinister for the Northern Powerhouse James Wharton MP added: “I welcome the active debate around the future direction and evolution of the Northern Powerhouse. Congratulations to ResPublica for this contribution\, it is an important project and has the potential to deliver real long term benefits to our economy.” \nThere have been too many platitudes written about the North\, and too many partial and piecemeal policies that have done little to reverse the decades of decline. For years\, a combination of indifference and fatalism has left local leaders with a monopoly on power content to administer decline\, and thus they must share some of the blame. \nOf all the post-war innovations and attempts at reversing abject decline\, the Northern Powerhouse has come closest to what is needed. With its mixture of place-based devolution and connectivity\, it has at last created an international brand and vision that has shifted the perception of what might be possible. In this way it has finally created the vehicle that might serve as a conduit for massive private sector investment. \nThese are welcome developments\, but we must go further and faster. For instance\, on transport we must get going on a direct high-speed east to west line. More generally\, the city-region devolution deals should be seen as an opening not a final offer from central government – with the decentralisation of investment decisions greatly expanded in scope and scale. \nPost-Brexit\, we must not lose the north once more. We must maintain the urgent reinvention of our country. We must demand from those who would be our leaders that they mirror their paeans to social justice with a New Deal for the North\, a new deal equal in scale and ambition to what FDR offered a struggling America in the 1930’s. \nNothing less will do\, nothing less will deliver. During the 19th century life in the North was fundamentally changed as prosperity and widespread economic growth was attained. It has achieved this transformation once before and it can do so again. ResPublica offers the ideas herein as its contribution to the promise\, and resurrection\, of the North. \n\nOur #NorthernPowerhouse conference in Salford's beautiful Lowry Theatre #TrueNorth with SoS @GregClarkMP pic.twitter.com/FRq4kKTqqT \n— ResPublica (@res_publica) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\nLabour should lead the debate on how we build the Northern Powerhouse @DanJarvisMP #truenorth \n— ResPublica (@res_publica) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\n#truenorth best sound bite so far @Phillip_Blond "Brexit vote was\, arguably\, the world's biggest vote against globalisation" \n— TonyStacey (@TonyStacey) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\n.@res_publica #truenorth needs one voice @Phillip_Blond given us the vision\, #northern leaders now need to run with it #NorthernPowerhouse \n— Dr Hakim Yadi OBE (@hakim_yadi) July 8\, 2016 \n \nhttps://twitter.com/ClaireBrai/status/751347492495757313 \n\nJames Wharton closes @res_publica event by outlining what the Gvt has done & will do for the #NorthernPowerhouse pic.twitter.com/aY0PXbna90 \n— Afsaneh Farzaneh (@AfsanehF1) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\nA cracking piece\, brimming with ideas. A Manifesto for the North https://t.co/F9kKCfsCKX via @res_publica @QuatroPR @GaryG_Atkins \n— Simon Collingwood (@CollingwoodSK) July 9\, 2016 \n \n\nSchedule: \nRegistration: 09.30 \nWelcome & keynotes: 10.15 \n\nKrishnan Guru-Murthy\, journalist\nRt Hon Greg Clark MP\, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government\nPhillip Blond\, Director of ResPublica\n\nWhat are the problems of the North? 11.30 \n\nKrishnan Guru-Murthy\, journalist\nSir Richard Leese\, Leader of Manchester City Council\nDan Jarvis MP\, Member for Parliament for Barnsley Central\nIvan Lewis MP\, Manchester Mayoral Candidate\n\n — Lunch — \nBreakout Sessions: 13.30 – 15.35 \n\nEnergy – The Northern POWERhouse\nMark Atherton\, Director of Environment\, Greater Manchester Combined Authority\nMichelle Hubert\, Head of Energy and Climate Change\, Confederation of British Industries\nDr John Idris Jones\, Chair\, Snowdonia Enterprise Zone\nCaroline Julian\, Deputy Director\, ResPublica\,\nTom Mundy\, Managing Director\, NuScale\n\n\nHealth – Addressing Northern Health Inequality\nEmily Crawford\, Principal Research Consultant\nProf Sir Ian Gilmore\, Chairman Liverpool Mayoral Health Commission\nProf Paul Johnstone\, Regional Director North of England\, Public Health England\nAlex Whinnom\, Chief Executive\, Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation\n\n\nInnovation – Opportunity and Innovation in the North\nAndrew Bounds\, Northern Correspondent\, Financial Times\nClaire Braithwaite\, Tech Advisor\, Manchester Growth Company\nChi Onwurah MP\, Shadow Tech Minister; MP for Newcastle Central\nRob Mukherjee\, Head of North West Regional Business\, Vodafone\n\n\nTransport – The Northern Engine of Growth\nJoe Anderson\, Mayor of Liverpool\nArif Ansari\, Political Editor North West\, BBC News\nCllr Judith Blake\, Leader\, Leeds City Council\nPhilip Graham\, Chief Executive\, National Infrastructure Commission\nDuncan Sim\, Senior Policy and Projects Officer\, ResPublica\n\n\nEducation – The Education Divide\nCllr John Merry CBE\, Deputy City Mayor\, Salford City Council\nMark Morrin\, Principal Research Consultant\, ResPublica\nLucy Powell MP\, MP for Manchester Central\nProf Mike Thomas\, Vice-chancellor\, Universit of Central Lancashire\nAndy Westwood\, Chair of Advisory Board\, LLAKES (Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies) at UCL Institute of Education\n\n\nHousing – The Homes the North Needs\nCharlotte Harrison\, Executive Director\, Northern Housing Consortium\nMark Henderson\, Chief Executive\, Home Group; Chair\, Homes for the North\nPaul Unger\, Editor\, Place North West\nAdam Wildman\, Principal Research Consultant\, ResPublica\n\nFinding True North: 16.15 – 17.20 \n\nJames Wharton MP\, Minister for the Northern Powerhouse\nPhillip Blond\, Director of ResPublica\n\n  \n\nConference partners: \n \n 
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/finding-true-north/
LOCATION:The Lowry Theatre\, Pier 8\, The Quays\, Media City\, Salford\, Manchester\, M50 3AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Prosperity,Society,Virtue
ORGANIZER;CN="Elliott Mears":MAILTO:elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk
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SUMMARY:In Professions We Trust
DESCRIPTION:ResPublica invites to you the launch of its latest report: In Professions We Trust: Fostering virtuous practitioners in teaching\, law and medicine. This report will argue that the legal\, medical\, and teaching professions provide a vital link between public service and the wider common good. Yet this understanding of civic purpose is in crisis\, and the professions too often have come to be seen as self-serving interest groups. The conception of professionalism founded on the performance of duties has been eroded\, with transactionality\, narrowing specialisation\, and the meeting of imposed targets coming to characterise practice. The resultant loss of trust has been detrimental to both practitioners and users of services. \nWe need to acknowledge the obligation of practitioners to serve the common good in order to return law\, medicine\, and teaching to their proper status as vocations. This entails calling practitioners to reconsider their sense of professional purpose\, and allowing the rebuilding of relationships\, in which the doctor\, teacher\, and lawyer knows and seeks to serve all the needs of their patient\, student\, or client. Through this restoration of trust\, it will be possible to return responsibility to members of the professions. \nThis report reasserts virtue as the hallmark of the professions and their practitioners. The continuous nature of the practice of virtue at every stage of professional life must be grasped\, embedding a consideration of practical wisdom and reflective practice in both training and professional life. In this way\, the professions will once again fulfil their calling as vocations that serve the good of all. \nThe event will feature remarks from Dr Dan Poulter\, Conservative MP\, and a  senior Labour counterpart followed by a panel session including \n\nPatrick Roach\, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT\nFrancis Gilbert\, Teacher and author\nLord Phillips of Sudbury\, former member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Aid\nPhillip Blond\, Director of ResPublica\n\nThe launch will be a private event\, to which we will be inviting high level representatives from the medical\, teaching and legal professions\, Parliament\, and the media. Spaces will be strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come\, first serve basis. Please register for your place as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. \nPlease arrive promptly for a 1:30 pm start. \nWe look forward to seeing you there. \nThis project is kindly supported by: \n 
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-professions-we-trust/
LOCATION:Committee Room 3\, Houses of Parliament
CATEGORIES:Virtue
ORGANIZER;CN="Elliott Mears":MAILTO:elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk
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SUMMARY:Virtue in Education: Character\, Non-Cognitive Skills\, and K-12 Education
DESCRIPTION:ResPublica’s Director\, Phillip Blond\, will be speaking to an education conference in New York\, hosted by the Jubilee Foundation. The event will see a preview of ResPublica’s upcoming report on role of virtue in professions.
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtue-in-education-character-non-cognitive-skills-and-k-12-education/
LOCATION:Unnamed Venue\, New York\, United States
CATEGORIES:Staff Appearances,Virtue
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140729T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 29th July 2014 at the Financial Times\, ResPublica will be launching its latest report: Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance. The report reviews the way in which the banking industry governs and organises itself and explores how the financial sector can be made more responsive\, responsible and inherently ethos driven. \nAddressing the problems of the past\, the project considers what paths can be taken to instil industry standards\, codes and guidance\, and make the sector more responsive to customers. The report makes recommendations to Government to improve standards and restore ethos to the sector. \nThe launch event will feature a keynote address by Sir Richard Lambert\, of the Banking Standards Review\, followed by a panel and Q&A session. \nMembers of the panel include:\n\nAnthony Browne\, Chief Executive\, British Bankers’ Association (tbc)\nAlison Robb\, Group Director\, Nationwide Building Society\nDavid T. Lleweylln\, Professor of Money and Banking\, Loughborough University\nRoger Steare\, The Cororate Philosopher\nMartin Lewis\, Money Saving Expert (tbc)\nPhillip Blond\, Director\, ResPublica (Chair)\n\nThe launch will be a private event\, to which we will be inviting high level representatives from across industry\, Parliament and the media. \nFor more information about this event\, please email Elliott Mears\, Events and Communications Manager\, at elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk.
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/
LOCATION:Financial Times\, Financial Times\, One Southwark Bridge\, London\, SE1 9HL
CATEGORIES:Virtue
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SUMMARY:ResPublica's Holistic Mission report scheduled for debate in the House of Lords
DESCRIPTION:ResPublica is pleased to announce that its recent report\, Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England\, has been scheduled for debate in the House of Lords at 3pm on 21st November 2013. \nThe motion “to move that this House takes note of the July 2013 report of ResPublica ‘Holistic Mission: Social Action and the Church of England’” was proposed by the Bishop of Leicester\, Lord Tim Stevens\, and emerged in a ballot recently. \nThe ResPublica report\, which was launched with the Archbishop of Canterbury\, Lord Justin Welby\, and the Minister for Civil Society\, Nick Hurd MP\, argues that the Church must become an enabling institution focussed on holistic\, interpersonal and local social action. The report demonstrates that the Church has a truly unique place in English society\, and is the key to unlocking a revolution in both voluntary and statutory public service provision. The report argues that we need new institutions for the 21st century\, and that the Church is well-placed to become one. \nHolistic Mission can be downloaded for free here and purchased from our shop via this link. The keynote speeches by ResPublica Director\, Phillip Blond\, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Minister for Civil Society\, plus the subsequent panel discussion with the Bishop of Leicester and Shadow Employment Minister\, Stephen Timms MP\, can be viewed here. \nFor further information regarding ResPublica’s work on faith and the Church\, please contact ResPublica’s Head of Research\, Caroline Julian\, at caroline.julian@respublica.org.uk or on 0207 222 6552.
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/respublicas-holistic-mission-report-scheduled-debate-house-lords/
CATEGORIES:Virtue
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SUMMARY:The Future of the Press: Does hyperlocal deserve the hype?
DESCRIPTION:Local newspapers play an important social role in our communities\, reporting on local issues which would otherwise go unnoticed by the national press and holding local services and politicians up to close scrutiny. In his investigation of the British press Lord Leveson warned that their demise would be a huge setback for democracy. However\, despite their position in the heart of the community\, sales of local newspapers are in free-fall with the latest figures showing a 10% annual decrease. \nIs it now time for a re-think into the way that local media interacts with society? As social media and citizen journalism become ever-more present in everyday social\, political and economic interactions\, how can local media make better use of new technology and innovative practice\, and harness crowd-sourced and civic platforms to inspire a collective exchange? \nIn partnership with the Carnegie UK Trust\, panellists were asked to explore how local media currently interacts with public life\, and to consider innovative ways in which communities can take control of and transform the social\, political and economic spheres through ground-breaking citizen journalism. They were also invited to discuss the challenges for local media in maintaining the ethical standards in reporting and governance that have singled it out from much of the criticism levelled at the national press\, as well as to examine how local media can continue to enrich and uphold our democratic system. \nThe panel:\n\nMartyn Evans\, Chief Executive Carnegie Trust UK (chair)\nHelen Goodman MP\, Shadow Minister for Culture\, Media and Sport\nGeoff Mulgan\, Chief Executive\, NESTA\nJoanna Geary\, Head of Social Media and Online Communities\, The Guardian\nDavid Minton\, Director\, The Leisure Database\n\nThe importance and value of local journalism\nThe panellists were of a shared opinion that local media has a very valuable role to play in society. The Shadow Minister for Culture\, Media and Sports\, Helen Goodman MP\, stressed its important contribution to the local community and identity\, as well as its role in holding people to account. Hyperlocal media can also include those who are otherwise excluded from mainstream debates\, and appeal to issues that people really care about. She made the case that local news outlets should be identified as ‘community assets’ under the Localism Act. \nHelen Goodman was more doubtful about reporting of an extremely localised nature\, positing that this would often be better done face-to-face; this point was disputed by Geoff Mulgan\, who maintained that there is demand for such reporting on a scale even smaller than traditional local media. More generally\, he cited the work of OfCom over the past 15 years which highlights the fact that local (rather than national or international) news can be identified as the main gap in the news market\, which the public wish to see filled. \nThe Guardian’s Joanna Geary focused on the great variety to be found among those involved in local news reporting\, and made the point that use of the blanket term ‘hyperlocal’ for their work creates a problem by not reflecting the diversity of local media outlets. In addition\, she and David Minton\, Director of The Leisure Darabase\, both drew attention to the influence of mobile technology in this arena\, and the difficulties and opportunities which this has raised for large news companies and smaller local enterprises. \nDavid Minton in particular emphasised the impact of the mobile phone in enabling people to reach out to a highly targeted audience and offer them information very specific to their location with immediate effect. He provided an illustrative example of this based on his own involvement in setting up the Splashpath website and app. Many subscribers use Splashpath to give feedback on their experiences of swimming pools\, including by indicating their own personal challenges\, and providing comments and criticisms. This information\, once compiled\, is not only a helpful service and community for pool users\, but is also of significant value to pool operators. \nStarting up and scaling up hyperlocal media\nThe difficulties of establishing a workable capital model for hyperlocals formed a significant part of the discussion. All of the panellists were broadly optimistic that there is a viable economic future for local journalism\, but the varied nature of the sector generated similarly varied opinions and conclusions about which would be the most fertile direction. \nHelen Goodman MP concentrated on the underlying popularity and positive economics of local newspapers\, despite their apparent decline in circulation. In terms of practical solutions for funding\, she indicated that public subsidy for local journalism was not on the agenda; instead she showed an interest in pursuing structural changes in order to facilitate greater co-operation between local journalists and news companies\, and to rework the existing competition rules. On the latter point\, she proposed a new system based on thresholds\, so that papers whose overall circulation (whether online or in print) falls within a particular bracket should be subject to a corresponding level of regulation – such a system could thereby address the existing problems both of treating online and hard-copy publication differently without justification\, and of subjecting local newspapers to excessive and unworkable levels of regulation similar to the national press. \nGeoff Mulgan echoed Helen Goodman MP’s remarks in stressing the need to ‘rewire’ the economy of hyperlocals\, and asserting that this did not mean implementing any public funding. He then went further by criticising recent governments for being blind to the transformation required in regulation of the sector due to the internet. \nBeyond regulation\, he expressed interest in experimentation with various capital models\, and pinpointed a number of potential streams of revenue (including classifieds\, other advertising and subscriptions)\, although he was sceptical about finding a model which might encourage professional journalists to report on extremely local issues. He also reflected on the financial success of The Guardian’s model\, which involves aggregating a number of local news pieces with other material and advertising. Finally\, he commented that there is promise in the future emergence of co-operatives and new business structures for hyperlocals. \nDavid Minton expanded on the topic of the ability to generate revenue from subscription sites\, based largely on his experience of the targeted audience model which he outlined in the Splashpath example. According to this model\, if a site can offer the free subscription and targeted material which people want\, then it will be able both to retain an audience and to look for a way to make money out of the content generated by its users\, which may be valuable to others. \nOn the other hand\, a large number of so-called ‘hyperlocal’ news providers are set up by local reporters who are perhaps unaware that there is any money to be made from this activity\, and who are motivated by a passion for journalism or a particular subject rather than for any monetary reason – a point that was made by Joanna Geary. So although increasing numbers of people do appear to be trying to develop successful businesses out of hyperlocals\, funding may be only a side issue for these voluntary providers. \nThe future of hyperlocal media\nThe general conclusion of the panellists was optimism about the future of hyperlocal media\, although perceptions of their future character and confidence on specific issues varied between individuals. David Minton envisaged a future where hyperlocals find business success by exploiting the significant avenues open to them for growth through providing useful and relevant information to exceedingly targeted audiences. \nGeoff Mulgan was similarly optimistic that\, in light of the popular disposition to experiment with business models and the latest media and technology developments\, someone is going to find a way to make hyperlocals profitable and the industry will become consolidated\, which may well mean that in the future the sector will look very different. New structures\, potentially in the form of co-operatives\, could become the key local hubs of the future\, supplanting actual physical locations and even challenging the legitimacy of local councils. In terms of wider issues in national reporting and accountability\, Geoff posited the question: what type of intervention is needed to draw out the ‘public good’? Could hyperlocal media\, and a diverse range of outlets\, play a role in re-establishing trust and positive participation with the local and general population? \nHelen Goodman MP laid particular emphasis on the ability of technology to give small groups of people a tremendous voice and the power to respond to issues which concern them\, and despite having had initial reservations prior to the panel event\, ultimately expressed confidence about potential for growth in this area.
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-press-hyperlocal-deserve-hype/
LOCATION:Westminster
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