This is Global Asbestos Awareness Week, I am happy to support @savetheirbreath and their campaign to ensure schools in…
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Lifelong Education Commission
Former Universities Minister Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP has launched a new Lifelong Education Commission under his Chairmanship at ResPublica. The Commission will last 18 months and will finish in July 2022. The Commission will...
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Airtight on Asbestos
On the 24th of November 1999, the United Kingdom banned the use of asbestos. Twenty years later and this toxic mineral still plagues public health, being linked to multiple diseases including mesothelioma. But why...
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All politics is local
Underlying the recent rejection of past decades’ political certainties is the belief among many communities that they have been cut off from the wider country. The UK’s economic divisions are widely acknowledged, but inequalities of...
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Recognising and revitalising cultural identity
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Towards a new housing settlement
An affordable, secure, and comfortable home is a foundational block of any good life. But we have an increasing deficit in housing supply, caused by decades of undersupply. Private rents at record highs; home ownership...
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A new devolved future for Britain’s mid-size cities
The challenge: An unequal and diverging Brexit Britain Britain’s cities and regions face real and growing challenges post-Brexit. It is vital that growth is delivered across the country. However, the UK’s inter-regional inequality is the...
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Regional manufacturing and the Industrial Strategy
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Britain’s Diplomatic Strength: Harnessing soft power in a post-Brexit world
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Making social reform work for vulnerable young people
Since taking office, the new Prime Minister’s rhetoric has made clear her determination to help young people from all backgrounds to go as far as their talent will take them and to tackle what she...
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When it comes to occupational exposures to asbestos, recent ONS data suggests female primary school teachers are the t…
This Global Asbestos Awareness Week, I am happy to support @savetheirbreath and their campaign to ensure all schools in…
Worrying stuff.
yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/asbe…
This is a concerning story highlighted by @FCDWhittaker. As there are 3,000 CLASP schools in the UK known to contain l…
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In 2013, the UK government's committee on carcinogenicity confirmed children were more at risk from asbestos, and a US…
We are delighted to welcome @UniofNewcastle as a member of the Lifelong Education Commission we launched with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Teachers are five times more likely to die of mesothelioma than shop or office workers. The current standards do not p…
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Most welcome - well done @danny__kruger and Miriam Cates - you have mine and @res_publica ‘s support
Asbestos is often thought of as a problem of the past. The truth is, asbestos is still present in 80% of schools, and…
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Recording of @res_publica event on #GreenEnergy
You can hear me speaking with Dolf Gielen (@IRENA…
ICYMI Recording now available | Green #Energy for Clean Growth online event | With @alanwhiteheadmp @JTorriti Maure… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Words of the day from the event: Flexibility, Demand-side response, and community benefits need to drive the future… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@alanwhiteheadmp: This all comes down to data and how we use it. It must be publicly provided; not captured by par… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@alanwhiteheadmp We need to have a root and brunch look at how we regulate the system to ensure we hit the mark in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@alanwhiteheadmp: What do we do about meeting the increased demand of the future? We would need to change the way… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@alanwhiteheadmp: How do we make the institutions and the system fit with the future of electrification? #GreenEnergy
John Smith @ShetIslandsCll: The benefits need to be shared among local communities to alleviate initial push-back #GreenEnergy
John Smith @ShetIslandsCll: We are taking steps to the transition. In 2024 we will have the biggest wind form and w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
John Smith @ShetIslandsCll: We have 50% fuel poverty, despite the Oil and Gas industry we have here. Consumption is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
John Smith @ShetIslandsCll: We have a good experience on participation in regards to energy transition. We are full… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Dolf Gielen @IRENA: UK is a major importer of goods with major Carbon content. In that context, the UK might want t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Dolf Gielen @IRENA: We will need a lot of Green Hydrogen. We need a ten-old increase of renewable capacity, but als… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Dolf Gielen @IRENA: Storage and stationary batteries are growing, but it is still early days. If you can tap into c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Dolf Gielen @IRENA: We see a global need to go to 90% renewable power by 2050. #GreenEnergy Flexibility therefore b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Maureen Paul @ofgem: The market needs to have new and innovative products for consumers to benefit. We need to tran… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Maureen Paul @ofgem: New demand-side flexibility solutions are emerging to help with carbon capture and energy storage #GreenEnergy
Maureen Paul @ofgem: Flexibility is fundamental to the system's energy transformation #GreenEnergy