Lockdown prioritised health risks to the old over effects on the young. It was just the latest example of a balance in public policy which has long concerned me.
The public are more intelligent when it comes to public spending than may politicians give them credit for, and they know the difference between organisations that waste money and those that don’t.
Birth rates. Pension ages. Increasing ill-health. Migration. A host of issues are increasingly seen through the prism of a shortage of the workers we need.
The closure of long-term psychiatric hospitals and then the day hospitals for people with intractable mental illness was one of the worst things that ever happened to many of the people who needed them.
After two hundred years, we are finally repealing the Vagrancy Act. So why are ministers reviving its awful approach with clauses targeting “nuisance rough sleeping”?
Unhappy employees take nearly two additional working weeks of sickness absence per year on average compared to their happy counterparts, and nearly one in ten have had sickness absences totalling more than a month in duration.
That is the mission of ARC, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, which is holding its inaugural meeting in London. The public want a better, more productive and dignified economy, and a politics and a public culture which honours their values.
We have found a way to reduce the demand on police time from mental health episodes. It is now time to look at other demands on the police and see how they can be reduced – or how the costs can be recouped in full.
The ninth part of our series on reducing demand for government, in which we set out a programme for change – focused on families, civil society and government.
If Britain’s productivity problem could be fixed by politicians tilting at unpopular targets – in this case, an assumed army of scroungers – it would have been fixed long ago.
She demonstrates that many of the problems the health service now has have existed from the very beginning.
The new strategy must mandate that all public servants who interact with the public receive suicide prevention training.
The Welsh Labour Government spent less than 16p per person in Wales in each of the last three years to tackle loneliness and social isolation. Is this a picture of what Labour in Downing Street would do?
Police forces can learn from Mark Rowley’s declaration that his officers should focus on tackling crime in the capital, rather than dealing with non-life-threatening mental health call-outs.
Mcleod had been randomly attacking members of the public for nearly fifteen years. He is 31 years old and is eligible for release on license in 17 years. What plan do we have as a society for Mcleod if he is released aged 48?