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'If Labour does form the next govt, as looks increasingly likely, it will need to act quickly and back up its talk about prevention.'

In a piece for The Fabian Society, William Roberts looks at the huge untapped potential in the wider public health workforce 🤝
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'Millions of people across the UK are positively contributing to health of the public through their jobs – sometimes without knowing it.'

Prevention is better than cure – and the wider public health workforce can help us get there, writes William Roberts
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Franchising buses across England could make a real visible difference to towns and cities in a (relatively!) short time

As we're starting to see in Greater Manchester with Andy Burnham

Great to see Labour take this forward, as we argued last year:

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This is really interesting and valuable work! Reviewing recent devolution proposals, including ours from last year:

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Thu 2 May 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Visions for a National Care Service in England tickettailor.com/events/univers…
Including Mark Williams from BRIL and Ben Cooper from The Fabian Society

These are extraordinary results. Very early intervention increases education outcomes at 16 and reduces childhood inequality.

Significant investment in kids from pregnancy to 2 should be the first priority, ahead of badly underfunded hours of free childcare for working parents

The Tories ran down HMRC so it could not tackle tax abuse hard. The worst penny-pinching short-termism. On the side of tax abusers.

Labour’s plan is business sense. Invest £500m per year to generate up to 10 times as much. On the side of people who pay their fair share.

Yes. Critical for our economy and pubic services is improve work. This will include more people in productive work and help address health inequalities putting pressure on the NHS. Workers know this, and most voters are or have been workers. See The Fabian Society research out in a week

Caring for Carers 📕Report The Fabian Society

'44% of working-age adults, who are caring for 35 hours or more a week, live in poverty. 👛

Public opinion strongly supports improved government support for #carers .'💷

Welfare reforms listed below are needed now⤵️
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Fabian polling data used in this article was part of the Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality. Read the article below, and check out the commission report here: fabians.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

“If the public are not Nimbys, they’re not Yimbys either.”

Great to speak to City A.M. about how housing can be a vote winner for Labour, and The Fabian Society research on the Green Belt.

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Interesting research by Independent Age Phil Mawhinney-Kam Michelle Ravenor

Half think current state pension age is too high

The right support will be critical as it rises again from 2026. Watch out for imminent The Fabian Society report on how govt can help.

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This is the right position on green belt.

We need to plan and develop 'grey belt' properly and improve access to green space.

Neither NIMBY, nor free-for-all YIMBY. Just sensible.

And that's what the public want.

As we Ben Cooper argued here:
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Last chance to apply - closes Tuesday at 11am.

The Work and Pensions committee Work & Pensions Committee endorses The Fabian Society proposal to raise Statutory Sick Pay to match maternity pay

(and along the way cites loads of Fabian analysis from our 2023 report on employment insurance)

Howard Reed Eloise Sacares 🌸

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💯 recommend this mentoring scheme. I’m now part of a network of brilliant women in public and political life. Fabian Women The Fabian Society