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Conservative anti-poverty month
ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising a Conservative anti-poverty month, with five online panels spread over four weeks in June, welcoming Conservative MPs and prominent academics. The seminars will aim...
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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 October 2022. 6th July 2021 ...
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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
Culture, the arts and creative industries are vital to economic prosperity and social reform. Too often, culture is overlooked by policy-makers as they seek, wrongly, to achieve short-term fixes to long-term challenges. We believe that...
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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
ResPublica is developing a vision for a place-based industrial strategy that addresses the UK’s regional productivity problem, and responds to competitiveness challenges post-Brexit. Working in partnership with Nestlé UK, the British arm of the world’s...
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Britain’s Diplomatic Strength: Harnessing soft power in a post-Brexit world
ResPublica, in partnership with the British Council, is undertaking a project on soft power and the vital role of institutions in British foreign policy. Institutions are uniquely effective at stabilising nations. When properly configured and...
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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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ICYMI | The recording of our online seminar 'How best to tackle #unemployment' is now available. With @BenChu_… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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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…