Policy Connect

The Work and Pensions Select Committee recently published its assistive technology report - with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology cited seven times throughout the report, and several of its recommendations reflected in those of the committee

We have opened applications for three roles here at Policy Connect, in the Education & Skills, Health and Sustainability teams.

The APPG for Assistive Technology met, for the first time, away from Parliament itself - to explore a new model of inclusive learning in higher education. The group held a reception at the Sticky Campus classroom at the University of Westminster, where attendees got hands-on with an interactive learning space that incorporates assistive technology.

Policy Connect met in the run up to Christmas to hear a conversation between two individuals with a passion for, but distinct views about, the nature of politics. James Kirkup is Director of the Social Market Foundation and former Executive Editor in Politics at The Telegraph. He interviewed Alan Milburn, the former chair of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission and Britain’s foremost expert on social mobility. The topic was what more can be done to deliver on the social mobility agenda.