Hilary Cottam
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Designing the 5th Social Revolution. Author of Radical Help . Hon Prof @IIPP_UCL . Maker. Free Radical. @TEDtalks : Trustee @jrf_uk
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Radical Help is OUT in paperback today! Available at all good bookshops and here Please buy, share, gift and spread the word - together we will make this welfare revolution.
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Families living in poverty are 10x more likely to have their children removed.
Care placements for those children cost average £4,000 week. Outcomes are dire.
Imagine if the families had an income of £16,000/ month...
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When designing the welfare state Beveridge travelled the country listening to ideas of revolutionary social change. Imagine a national conversation now of what we have learnt and want to take forward from this crisis. Easy to do we just need leadership...
Britons want quality of life indicators to take priority over economy
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60% of children’s home places are private equity owned. Local Authorities pay average of £3,830/ week w 23% profit margins to providers
@FT
This system is broken and morally bankrupt.
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I'm thrilled to have been appointed as a trustee
@jrf_uk
Never has work on UK poverty been more important.
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of five new trustees who will help us to shape the next stage of our work as a social change organisation. We welcome
@HilaryCottam
,
@Farahelahi
, Gillian Russell,
@EconHODatyork
and
@kene_umeasiegbu
.
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We face climate catastrophe, we have communities where children have nothing to eat in school holidays &
@BorisJohnson
big "new" idea for our country is tax cuts for top 10%.
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We are a nation addicted to re-arranging: the NHS, government departments... but without a 21st century vision and strategy - a shared story and direction of travel - it's simply a recipe for further alienation and exhaustion.
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Let's build a welfare system for this century - one rooted in care and connection. It's a movement that has already started. It's a real possibility...
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Thank you for so very many kind messages of congratulation. I am honoured to be recognised for service to the welfare state. I hope that recognition moves forward the re-imagining of this critical project - work that so many of us are engaged with.
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'Existing systems seek to advance the economy at the expense of too many human lives. 5.0 systems seek to advance the richness of life- all life everywhere'
Welfare 5.0: Download the paper & join us to discuss 18.00 BST
@IIPP_UCL
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I will be joining guests
@BBCNewsnight
tonight for a discussion on the pandemic/inequality and _ I hope_ the very different future we could create. Tune in 10.45 pm
#newsnight
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Ah yes - the old let's have more control of the levers argument. When will we learn that good health and care is created through horizontal bonds in communities, not through new versions of command and control?
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Many are calling for the new Beveridge. But the revolution we need now does not require the great white male but the know how to build on the new forms of collaboration all around us.
@amolrajan
@peterhennessy
#WATO
#RadicalHelp
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When the establishment economists tell us to ditch risk and probability models in favour of stories and narrative something is up. I have summarised my thoughts on this big and important book here Take a look!
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London parks, Liverpool pavements... and who do we think has to clean up after us ? Those same workers we clapped for. People: surely we can do better!
Really? Beaches, cities, celebrations.
What the fuck is going on?
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Revolutionising the welfare state -
@BBCRadio4
tonight 8 pm- I'm in conversation with
@helenlewis
The Spark
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Today I have seen a power shift in action: a council genuinely supporting communities with their plans and the immense creative energy of communities often starting from a very difficult place. Something rare and beautiful happening in
@EastAyrshire
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‘It is long past time to move on to the far more interesting question … how we can make room for care and wellbeing alongside competition and ambition’ Excellent from
@SlaughterAM
@FT
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In my recent UK workshops on the future of work, a demand for a 4 day week was universal (and unprompted) in all groups: carers, welders, managers etc.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern says four-day workweek could help rebuild country's economy after COVID-19
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Andy Haldane argues that an unwell population is limiting growth. But my work shows the inverse is true: it’s modern extractive work that is wreaking havoc on our health.
@theRSAorg
@HealthFdn
#REALChallenge
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What could a New Relationship between Local State and Community look like_ and how would it enable deep social change?
Grateful to
@TNLComFund
and the many who joined me in this enquiry which you can read here
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This is a recommended read and important work. But critically a new social contract in this century must finally integrate unpaid household work and care - without this 'everyone' will still not be part of the future.
Everyone should enjoy good work as a right. Our new report sets out 8 ideas to form a new social contract for a better future of work for all. [Thread] [1/10]
#RSAbridges
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This is a fascinating thread. Would be interesting to replicate Ostrom’s research w social work teams- would smaller, better paid, local teams need less funding over all and work better? I suspect so.
A lot of people know Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom from her work on the commons.
But many might not know that some of her first research in the 1970s on policing.
It can inform the reform vs. defunding debate, with some clear empirical findings.
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Imagine a gathering where public leaders are asked only to talk about ways they have deepened the work of their predecessors. We are rolling back decades of culture so why singular attention on new initiatives? One for you
@wearenewlocal
? "Deeper Things"
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My new piece for
@lgcplus
on why we need to think way beyond the framework of 'public service reform'
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Radical Help by Hilary Cottam review – how to revolutionise the welfare state
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The pandemic has laid bare the urgent need to invest in a new social settlement.. Join me in conversation w/
@SlaughterAM
@MazzucatoM
@CarlotaPrzPerez
@ImmyKaur
as we discuss the shape this new settlement must take...
Please join
@IIPP_UCL
for the launch of a radical report written by social entrepreneur IIPP Hon Prof
@HilaryCottam
, chaired by IIPP Director
@MazzucatoM
in discussion with
@SlaughterAM
&
@CarlotaPrzPerez
🗓️ 8 Sept @ 6pm BST
🎟️
#IIPPWelfareRevolution
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very important piece from
@ProfDonnaHall
local institutions have insight, experience, knowledge and social infrastructure which can be mobilised now and going forward - this cannot be done from the centre.
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Can we collectively re-imagine work?
I have been exploring this question in collaboration with workers across the UK and over the next weeks I will be sharing emerging thoughts on why we must and how we could.
@IIPP_UCL
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Wales is eliminating profit from their children's care system - because they have listened to children and 'it's the right thing to do'.
This is a big and horizon shifting transformation for care...
Must read:
@JulieMorganLAB
sets out how Wales is going to end for-profit children's homes and foster care. Via
@lgcplus
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‘I’m still a community worker I’ve just got a bigger community’
@EACChiefExec
Inspirational Leadership
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I'm spending this week in East Ayrshire. Can't wait to work w/colleagues at
@ProjectLiftScot
and learn from those re-inventing work in Kilmarnock and beyond. Thank you
@Vibrant_Socks
@brigidrussell51
@scotbelg
@OpenSociety
@designhumanly
& many more
#5SR
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The health of the population is not just a matter of how well the health service is funded and functions, important as that is. Health is closely linked to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work & age and inequities in power, money and resources
@MichaelMarmot
This damage to health has been largely unnecessary. There is no biological reason for stalling life expectancy and widening health inequalities — vital reading for all of us working for change from
@MichaelMarmot
, on a decade marked by deteriorating health
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In the last true global emergency (WW2) thinkers and doers committed not simply to put things back together - but to mobilise and create a new and better world - we must start working now towards the same
#GreenNewDeal
#5thSocialRevolution
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Care is about human connection: it helps us to flourish; if properly paid it could power a green economy; it strengthens our societies. In
@TheAtlantic
@SlaughterAM
and I outline the starting principles of a care economy
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Deeply sad but inevitable result of 1990s logic whereby those in power started to make the division: welfare/bad : public services/good. Only a new design which re-connects us to one another in a bigger story of common fate will change this.
My
@guardian
story: Tens of thousands did not claim universal credit during Covid because of fears over "scrounger" benefit shame, despite struggling financially,
@DistantWelfare
study finds
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Hilary Cottam’s ‘Radical Help’ has communities around the world rethinking (and revamping) their social programs
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@Hanifkureishi
@SantaLuciaIRCCS
Delighted to hear it and what a beautiful picture of a care team you have written about with frank humanity.
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Tomorrow l'll be giving
@HealthFdn
2021 REAL lecture. Join me, stellar panellists + the more than 1.5k people already signed up.
I'll be putting forward a new vision because funding & re-thinking pathways in existing care systems is not enough
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Come one come all! I'm doing a community teach in
@peckhamlevels
28/02.
It's free and everyone is welcome. We'll be re-thinking welfare models and the brilliant
@RowanEConway
+ friends from
@IIPP_UCL
will join me to facilitate a hands on methods workshop.
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What does a 21st century Worker Organisation look like? Last week in East Ayrshire I asked those who work in communities caring for people and place. Here a few of the many ideas that focused on place, community, pride, local skills, kindness, horizontal networks and more...
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Why Design? Because without new ways to think and make we will never get structural social change. Join me tomorrow in conversation w/
@alicerawsthorn
#DesignEmergency
#5thSocialRevolution
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Last week
@NHSConfed
I gave a talk about the profound need to pivot in our thinking about health + health systems. We can no longer pretend or hide behind new words - but we could fully turn towards the new tides.
Full text here
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Thank you EVERYONE for an overwhelming reaction to last night's
@BBCRadio4
programme available here
My twitter feed shows how much amazing work there is in our nation and gives hope. Thank you too
@helenlewis
for great questions!
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I'm honoured and delighted to have been appointed. Looking forward to working with
@CarlotaPrzPerez
@MazzucatoM
@rainerkattel
and that first brilliant cohort of students.
We're pleased to announce our new Visiting Professor, social entrepreneur and innovator
@HilaryCottam
. Hilary brings 20 years of experience in social innovation to our research agenda and our first cohort of MPA students this year. Learn more.
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What creates health? A culture of hope, inclusivity, joy and kindness. Brilliant TEDx talk from
@wellbeingandy
who is creating radical system change.
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Private sector companies providing children's care last year made average £200 million profit
@BBC4today
#revolutionnotpatchandmend
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Does anyone else feel like a Laura Ingalls Wilder character: those massive horizons of possibility but in the meantime provisioning for the homestead every day sure takes a lot of time...
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How wonderful to be joined by so many this evening with such great questions = thank you everyone! And specially my fellow panellists
@SlaughterAM
@CarlotaPrzPerez
@ImmyKaur
@MazzucatoM
@IIPP_UCL
Feel very lucky!
Speechless... (stunned 😍)
I just attended the launch of the Welfare 5.0 report by
@HilaryCottam
(online event).
The report now open and to be developed by us all in the open...
1000 attendees
Hosted by
@IIPP_UCL
#IIPPwelfarerevolution
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We are the only country in Europe to do 16 y.o. state exams w massive mental health costs and no contribution to our comparative educational standing. A big chance to re-think post pandemic has not been seized.
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It's very interesting who
@michaelgove
draws on - every single ref is to a white male scholar. Speaks volumes.
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Jottings: my hasty notes from my work last week
@EastAyrshire
: systems leadership, radical family support, community power, good work and a rice recipe!
w/thanks
@Vibrant_Socks
@EACChiefExec
@ProfDonnaHall
@scotbelg
@MaureenSwannie1
@brigidrussell51
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A few of my favourite things…and this year mine have grown with such abundance, long stems and strong fragrance - I’m very happy!
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By my estimation
@MichaelRosenYes
sat for well over 2 hours yesterday signing for fans of all ages. Generosity all around
@hayfestival
#HayFestival2023
I've often done shows for 1000 plus but they're usually with schools bringing their students. Today I think is the first time I've done a family show and 1600 have come. Thank you vm folks. Very much appreciated.
@hayfestival
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Writing is hard. It would have been a lot less hard if I had imagined daughters on swings reading away
#happy
#RadicalHelp
@ViragoBooks
Great lockdown moments - daughter on swing reading Radical Help
@HilaryCottam
@NatashaCCurran
#proud
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In 2017
@jrf_uk
had to invent a new category to capture immense and growing UK poverty :Destitution. This year destitution risen 50%. This is why we urgently need a generative economy and a new social settlement.
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Hurrah!
Brilliant to see this
@KateRaworth
@CarlotaPrzPerez
@MazzucatoM
@StephanieKelton
@DufloEsther
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There is no way forward without a participative re-design and recognition of care as honoured and well-paid work. Funding pathways into broken and exploitative systems simply shifts human and financial costs elsewhere and moves us no nearer to 21C flourishing.
And the third - and by far the most striking - absence in the social care debate this week are the voices of women - low paid and unpaid - who do the majority of the exhausting, taxing, emotionally draining work of care.
@Camcavendish
@Emmabarnett
@MBunting_
@HilaryCottam
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Day
#2
is
@KateRaworth
Doughnut Economics
'The most powerful tool in economics is not money, nor even algebra. It is a pencil. Because with a pencil you can redraw the world'.
Design makes this brilliant economics re-think accessible to all.
#DABF20
@TBGandS
@alicerawsthorn
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A staggering 1 in every 200 families is homeless in the UK
@FT
. We will never address mental health, school learning and much else until we tackle this foundational issue creating unbearable instability for so many families
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In Grimsby the community are collectively buying up empty homes they refurbish through local good work and let at social rent. There are 12 days left to invest in the brilliant
@EastMarshUnited
Buy a share if you can
And spread the word.
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For those who missed it - and those who want to join us all over again!
Watch IIPP Director
@MazzucatoM
in conversation with
@HilaryCottam
,
@CarlotaPrzPerez
,
@SlaughterAM
and
@ImmyKaur
to talk about why we need a social revolution and how to make it happen, from our most recent event, Welfare 5.0.
#IIPPWelfareRevolution
📺
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Couldn't we just do like this? No visas. But a citizen register of spare rooms and homes happy to receive a guest. In the unlikely event our guests turns out to be terrorists, we will happily share with the Home Sec.
Poland has revolutionized migration policy. We have received 500,000 refugees and do not have a single refugee camp. Most of them are taken in by Polish families. Almost all my friends in Warsaw have someone from Ukraine at home tonight.
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Travelling widely this week, I have found myself in Beveridge's footsteps - everywhere the demand, energy and support for radical (rooted) social change is loud !
@SydneyPolicyLab
@mds49
@SamPlum4
@fabriziobarca
@CHCymru
@CormacRussell
@LauraMcAllister
@UKCivilService
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A week after Radical Help was published Frank Field wrote to me with congratulations and his thoughts about what could be done next. It's just one small mark of his open, human and unwavering commitment to social change. He is much missed.
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On way to Gateshead to this w/
@MarkAdamSmith
@ProfDonnaHall
and 250 fellow changemakers - there's no more room in the inn and the speed at which this event sold out speaks volumes about how many want to make radical change in our public service systems
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If we want to shift power we need to shift what counts as 'evidence'. excellent from
@jesstud
An evidence paradox holds back the potential of
#communitypower
: it’s required to prove its worth according to measures that weren’t set up to recognise its value.
My blog for the launch of our report Community Power: The Evidence argues this must change
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GCSEs. Gone.
And firmly in the pile of things to be re-imagined in the next phase of our lives.
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now that is a reading list I would like to be on! thank you
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1.8 million children in the UK are growing up in very deep poverty. 1.8 million... it's why we urgently need to re-design our economy and our supporting social systems.
Our state of the nation report into poverty in the UK reveals that 1.8 million children are growing up in very deep poverty, meaning family incomes are so low that they are completely inadequate to cover the basics.
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an afternoon to just talk an plot w/ the wonderful and inspiring
@ProfDonnaHall
- can you imagine what a treat!
Great afternoon in Islington chatting & plotting the 5th Revolution with my lovely friend
@HilaryCottam
. One day instead of a bible in the drawer of every hotel room in the world it will be a copy of Radical Help...working out how to embed relational activism everywhere!
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Destitution is when you can't stay warm and dry, you don't know where you will find your next meal.
3.8 million people in the UK experienced destitution last year - including 1 million children - a 61% rise since 2019.
Truly shocking - analysis from
@jrf_uk
⬇️
Destitution is when people cannot afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.
Our new report reveals a shameful rise in the number of people experiencing destitution in the UK.
Here are the key findings 🧵
#DontIgnoreDestitution
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V sad to hear of death of Shirley Williams.
I was lucky to meet her once and she fully focused on me despite the important grandees around us - every bit the kind, deeply democratic radical who inspired me as a child.
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Today I am in Manchester home of the last industrial revolution- sowing the seeds of the next social revolution.
@WiganCouncil
@AndyBurnhamGM
@JonRouseGM
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Escaping from your children.
What’s considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?
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In the face of immense hardship volunteers show courage and ingenuity - this is the story of our country. But food banks should not be necessary - to see this as a challenge of welfare is a category error. This is a challenge of economics: start with fair wages.
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.
@Tesco
pays out £900 million dividend having taken almost £600 m support from the government. Are there any rules at all to this crazy game of winner takes all ?
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Exactly this_ a strong welfare system used by everyone is part of the glue that binds us. Perfectly put by
@SadiqKhan
"When somebody shows you who they are, believe them."
Sadiq Khan slams Susan Hall after she says his free school meals may be feeding 'millionaires' children.
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How to take over your Council. A lot of people have asked me in recent days about the Frome experience of deep participative democracy - here's a good intro via
@alternativeUK
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‘It’s not about fixing people it’s about growing people’ Brilliant to spend today w
@MetroMayorSteve
and his team.
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We need a new practice of public problem solving taught in schools and universities everywhere if we are to rise to the challenges of today - brilliant to see this US movement - let's replicate in the UK.
Please read and join us!
@taradmcguinness
and I are proud to be a part of this group. Calling all deans, public policy students, government officials, and private sector public problem solvers. This movement is long overdue.
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Re-thinking social systems- hands on busy here
@peckhamlevels
@IIPP_UCL
this afternoon. So many incredible people in this room!
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Well, for starters, I hope that 'what you put in' will include the time that women in particular put into their communities, into caring...I rather hope we have seen this differently of late...
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We need new stories. This August
@EdBookFest
I will be hosting a series of talks on revolutions: economic, social and imaginary. Here just a few of the brilliant authors and activists who will be joining me. Come along
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When I was 18 I made one of my best friends - we bumped into each other 2x in Chile and decided we had better say hello. Today - travelling separately and in different directions - our 18 year old daughters bumped into each other in Split. What are the chances?
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Boys! It's C21 and your infrastructure projects need to focus on getting every village, town and community access to super fast broad band.
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In 2019 I was proud to campaign for
@faizashaheen
Trust in politics will only be restored by inclusive parties and politicians like Faiza: critical thinkers deeply rooted in the communities they represent.
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Is it right to extend the school year for exams?
Why not flex the exam/syllabus to the reality rather than bend the already stressed out pupils to the system?
Genuinely asking because I cannot imagine human centred social policy would take this course...
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I am very much looking forward to conversing with
@helenlewis
tomorrow. You can listen in
@BBCRadio4
8pm
#RadicalHelp
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Fancy a cuppa in Grimsby 16.30 20/09? I'll be working locally and learning from those doing inspiring things inc
@eastmarshunited
@theculturehouse
@jstockwood
to name a few! If you like Radical Help and fancy a chat over a cup of tea I'd love to hear how it's going!
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If you missed our conversation
@RSAEvents
today you can catch up here It was such a pleasure to talk about critical optimism, power and making every day change w
@mds49
&
@anthonypainter
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This. Read the thread.
This is remarkable: 170 Dutch academics put together a 5-point manifesto for economic change after the C19 crisis, building on
#degrowth
principles. It has gone viral in Dutch media. In this thread I'll summarize the points in English.
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I am SO excited and proud to be part of this experiential journey into the future of Barrow - if you are from the borough we would love you to join us
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