The National Prosperity Plan has five core areas to boost the country’s economic recovery and future.
The third in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.
“Investing in our youngest children will have a transformational impact,” says the former cabinet minister, as a review she leads publishes its plan.
Such a move could empower service users whilst helping provide the savings the Treasury need to make meaningful reform sustainable.
Offering help to those who need it is a far more constructive and effective approach than hitting all gamblers with bans and restrictions.
It’s disgraceful that somewhere between 15 and 20 per cent of our young people may be “functionally illiterate” when they leave school.
It’s welcome that we’re investing much more in services. But we need to tackle the causes too.
It’s one thing to endure them to prevent people dying, and for a relatively short period of time; quite another because we might return to this situation.
Lockdown has heightened OCD sufferers’ symptoms and hampered their treatment. There is a fierce urgency for innovation.
From extra tutors and greater at-home learning to more support for mental health issues and troubled families, ministers must act now.
The Legatum Institute has this week published a methodology for one. We don’t claim that it has all the answers, but it does offer a guide to hard policy choices.
Many concerns have been raised about the practices of the Gender Identity Development Service. But too often these have been shouted down.
The towns of the North East, left behind for generations by Labour, will need to see their Conservative MPs forging a durable path to a future.
This is not an easy issue to solve. Rough sleeping is as much a health issue as it is a housing issue – it is often a crisis of addiction and mental health as well.
The issue deeply affects hundreds of thousands of people a year, across every constituency, every local authority, every city and town.