Policy Connect

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing our thoughts on the election campaign, analysing manifestos and dissecting policy progress made by the previous government. We’ve taken a look across all our policy areas (Health, Sustainability, Education & Skills, and Industry, Technology and Innovation) and created a list of what we’d like to see from the new government.

Bring forward the environment bill and ensure it has impact on a global scale

New tools for housing regulation, ambitious energy efficiency programmes, and support for low-carbon fuels; these broad policy consensuses set the tone for carbon monoxide (CO) safety in the next Parliament. Yet this top-level consensus in party manifestos masks a universal lack of CO-specific policy proposals as Policy Connect calls on all parties to tackle this ‘silent killer’.

This election campaign has seen renewed interest in adult education after much neglect, however this week’s ONS figures on NEETs are a sobering reminder that we are still failing too many young people. Head of Education and Skills, Simon Kelleher, reviews what the manifestos say on this issue.

The last few weeks have seen promises and pledges from all major parties in their manifestos. The NHS, climate action and Brexit are all front of centre of this year’s election, however, in this post, we wanted to highlight some of the Policy Connect recommendations from our reports that have been mentioned in manifestos.