📅Join us on 15 May for our next GM Policy Hub seminar on community-centred approaches to active travel policy
🤝Prof Sheena Cruickshank will discuss creative community approaches to local sources of pollution and barriers to active travel
🔗Register: policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcomin…

📑Prof Emma Barrett and Prof Rachel Gibson are cited in a new parliamentary inquiry on 'Defending democracy'

🗳️This inquiry from the National Security Strategy Committee examines how threats to the UK’s democracy may be addressed

🔗Read their response: ow.ly/62HW50RlXAH

🌎 The environmental threats of climate change are forcing us to rethink out energy production and usage.

💡 Dr Robin Preece, Dr Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña and Professor Paul Jarman explore the route to net zero.

👉 Read the article here: ow.ly/pjsa50QSg2S

🩺There is growing interest in the potential of digital transformation to aid the UK’s health and social care system

👩‍⚕️Dr Alan Davies outlines a new framework to identify the skills and training needed by health and care workers

🔗Read the article: ow.ly/Jks050Rmfam

🔎 In #Workingfutures , Rosalind Shorrocks and Anna Sanders outline the GM4Women2028 findings on employment.

👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽 They found the impact of unpaid care on employment affects women across the life course.

…licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/working-future…

📈The number of young children experiencing poor emotional wellbeing is increasing.
👉Dr Charlotte Bagnall explores the difficulties vulnerable children face in primary-secondary school transitions.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…

👏 Professor Rob Ford has been cited in a new POST (UK Parliament) briefing - Election turnout: Why do some people not vote?

📄 It highlights possible policy initiatives to encourage democratic participation, and how to reduce turnout inequality

👉 Read here: ow.ly/XRy550RhPVo

🌍 Climate change is increasing the uncertainty of certain resources, and global development is making others scarcer and more interdependent.

🔊 Listen to a snippet of our audio article below

👉 Read or listen to the full article here:
ow.ly/F4NL50QQcJP

👏 Dr Gareth Clay has been cited in a new POST (UK Parliament) briefing - Wildfire risks to UK landscapes

📄 It summarises wildfire threats and management, and outlines options for increasing the resilience of UK landscapes and habitats to wildfires

👉 Read here: ow.ly/kvGr50Rii3I

⛵ There are 42 deaths of despair - DoD; deaths due to drugs, alcohol & suicide - in every 100,000 deaths in coastal areas, vs 32 per 100K inland

✍ Luke Munford and Christine Camacho outline inequalities in DoD across England, & what policymakers can do

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/urban/2024/03/…

🤝 Social prescribing connects patients to VCSE organisations, via link workers

🩺 But are these workers in the areas that need them most?

🔍 A more targeted approach is needed to match resources to need

👇 Read more in Paul Wilson's (paul wilson) article; blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/health/2024/03…

🧠Only 7% of boys report a high level of emotional difficulties, compared with 22% of girls and 50% of non-binary young people

⚖️Professor Neil Humphrey reflects on wellbeing inequalities in young people and how to address them

👉 Read the article: ow.ly/lCel50R91YF

📅Join us on 15 May for our next GM Policy Hub seminar on community-centred approaches to active travel policy
🤝Prof Sheena Cruickshank will discuss creative community approaches to local sources of pollution and barriers to active travel
🔗Register: policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcomin…

🌍 #EarthDay2024 asks us to consider plastic pollution's impact on our health & environment.

🥤The UK's plastic recycling system is complicated. New regulations aim to simplify it.

👇Adeyemi Adelekan & Maria Sharmina share their reflections here.

ow.ly/5yXi50Rj8AB

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🏫Area-based partnerships aim to collaborate with stakeholders to support school improvement initiatives.
📑Paul Wilfred Armstrong and Dr Bee Hughes 🐝 explore ABPs and make recommendations about their governance.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : ow.ly/IWzt50R1W0W

💡 A new paper has been published from the Institute for Government which highlights the policy changes needed to reduce regional inequalities

👏 This follows our series of events in collaboration with IFG, focussed on the levelling up agenda

👉 Read it here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/…

💬 The Mental Health Act can be used to detain people experiencing a mental health crisis.

💭 But how do interpreters work with health professionals, & is more training & regulation needed?

👇 Read more from INforMHAA in our new collection #OpenMinds :
…licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/open-minds/ind…

📚The PM's 'Maths to 18' plan aims to ‘boost low numeracy rates’ and equip students for data-intensive jobs.
🔎Maria Pampaka, Laura Black and Julian Williams analyse this proposal and make recommendations.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…