NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

Read Nick Ridpath Sarah Cattan Pedro Carneiro’s report, funded by Nuffield Foundation: ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

Children living near Sure Start centres did better at GCSEs, study suggests bbc.in/49sz82n

'A new mode of protection: the case for redesigning our policing and public safety institutions' by Rick Muir part of a forthcoming special collection

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

#Policing #Reform #Prevention #Capabilities #Legitimacy

Utterly appalling

'A new mode of protection: the case for redesigning our policing and public safety institutions' by Rick Muir part of a forthcoming special collection

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

#Policing #Reform #Prevention #Capabilities #Legitimacy

Well worth reading if you’re interested in Policing and crime.
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Thoughtful and insightful as ever from Rick Muir in his Political Quarterly article

Can't get over that there's been a *68%* increase *in one year* in the number of people who don't have enough food to *3.7 million* people and it's not anywhere near the biggest news story.

'A new mode of protection: the case for redesigning our policing and public safety institutions' by Rick Muir part of a forthcoming special collection

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

#Policing #Reform #Prevention #Capabilities #Legitimacy

Some strong recommendations on charging and breaking the CPS/police logjam in this review by Vera Baird DBE KC

My new Political Quarterly piece is free to view for a month: New Mode of Protection: The Case for Redesigning our Policing and Public Safety Institutions - Muir - The Political Quarterly - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

New from our Director Rick Muir 'A New Mode of Protection: The Case for Redesigning our Policing and Public Safety Institutions'

Pleased to have a new article published in Political Quarterly on police reform - A New Mode of Protection: The Case for Redesigning our Policing and Public Safety Institutions - The Political Quarterly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

WWWe might be back.

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I can think of some other people who managed to balance intense racism with trade with Jamaica, Malaya etc

Timely discussion between Nick Ferrari and Rick Muir of the The Police Foundation on LBC coinciding with Ian Wiggett's new article on Policing Insight 'Whisper it quietly, but crime is down – so why is no-one talking about it?'
Ian looks at trends on both the Crime Survey of…

Outstanding thread on the crime drop by Matt Ashby 👇

Vibes are not Facts. Consider: the last episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys may feel like the worst thing ever. But it’s not. Go back in time, you’ll find the previous episode was also awful. Same here 👇. Just cos crime is high, doesn’t mean it wasn’t higher in the past.

Keeping planned growth in day to day spending at 1% p.a. real over next parliament.
Key point is that, with bigger increases nailed in for health, defence, and childcare, other public services will need to be cut - by c£20bn p.a. by 2028 on our calculations.