Are you a child in care or someone with experience of the care system? If so, the Children’s Commissioner wants to hear your views on whether ‘care experience’ should be made a protected characteristic. Complete the survey here: bit.ly/3Y9yP8P childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/?p=33492

NEW: don’t let the ULEZ chatter mislead you. The British public is much more supportive and united on Net Zero policies than the public in peer countries, with Conservative voters frequently as green as the centre-left elsewhere on.ft.com/453oWeT

🗣️ A Net Zero Society: A Public Dialogue on Scenarios and Pathways Produced by IpsosUK, a new report released today details the approaches taken to explore public attitudes towards four different net zero scenarios. Read the full report here 👇 sciencewise.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” scoop.me/housing-first-…

Exciting news from University of Oxford research! Transitioning to #Renewables and #CleanEnergy could save the world $12 trillion by 2050, while curbing #Emissions. Let's accelerate the shift towards a #NetZero future! 💚🌍 #ClimateAction #Sustainability cell.com/joule/fulltext…

🚨Save the date for #RepairDay 2023🚨 ⁠ In 2 months, the global repair community will be marking the biggest day in the repair calendar🔧this year's theme is #RepairforEveryone 💚 ⁠ Time to prep your events and dust off your screwdrivers to celebrate repair in all its forms!⁠

Join our brilliant team 😊 Director of Rekindle Foundation. £40K. Remote working. Shifting the UK educational system and re-prioritising creativity, joy and wellbeing - for pupils AND teachers. Passionate education changemakers only pls 😉 rekindleschool.org

Embark on a 10-month residency that tests and develops accessible ways of harnessing our community tech. Join us to create more thriving neighbourhoods together, with art, tech and care. Watershed MyWorld Closing date Mon 11 Sept —> tinyurl.com/4s9shf8h

What if AI spoke for our rivers? Excited to share Superflux's latest work: The Ecological Intelligence Agency - a speculative, commons-owned initiative that advocates for the ecological health of our more-than-human companions🌎With Policy Lab UK @DefraGov superflux.in/index.php/work…

Please help us spread the word about this: first tickets are released tomorrow and we want to make sure that as many people as possible in civil society organisations know it's happening

🥁 At Promising Trouble we're building our board and are looking for our first Chairperson. Are you a values-driven, established leader with excellent business/financial sense who can support our growth and improve our governance? All the details: promisingtrouble.net/blog

Really brilliant recommendations from Kathy Peach here

Today we announce a new project to explore the UK’s ‘social capital’ . In partnership with The Behavioural Insights Team, neighbourlylab, Stripe Partners & funded by Nuffield Foundation we're working with @meta to understand the impact that connections have on our lives. 👀 thersa.co/3SQR02h

Interesting new findings from the huge 12-year universal basic income experiment in Kenya: "Given how entrepreneurially minded the recipients are, the researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol... In fact, so many

Who decides? Influence and inequality in British democracy ippr.org/research/publi…

Next election is set to be most unequal for over 60 years, finds IPPR ippr.org/news-and-media…

🗳️ | NEW REPORT: Political influence is unequal. Rich people, homeowners & university graduates are all more likely to engage in politics than their counterparts. The implications of this for democracy are profound. Read the report here: ippr.org/publications/w…

Young people must have a say in the decisions that shape their lives – and voting is crucial🗳️ ⏰Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the General Election Please urge the young people in your life to make their voices heard #RegisterToVote👉 qrco.de/giveanx

In 2019 around 50% of renters voted, compared to 65% of homeowners. This election we need renters to make renters' voices heard and put the #HousingEmergency on the agenda. #RegisterToVote: gov.uk/register-to-vo… Tell candidates you're #VotingForHome: shltr.org.uk/dfzWJ