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Everyone's a Winner - Social Impact Bonds
Posted by Mark Garnier on 15th May at 4:37pmMark Garnier MP proposes a Payment By Results model which could transform social project funding into an attractive non-government investment.
The five year election cycle is not conducive to long-term projects, including social improvement. Whilst imaginativ
Consumers at the Heart of Markets
Posted by Laura Sandys on 29th April at 8:27pmIt is important that the Conservative Party has a clear, coherent consumer policy that informs departmental thinking, and places consumers centre stage. We must regain our ambition for delivering competition, improved customer service and innovation across our e
Why mental health matters in the Opportunity Society
Posted by Nicky Morgan on 29th April at 3:02pmContinuing the 2020 series of papers on the Opportunity Society, Nicky Morgan MP and James Morris MP look at the health, social and economic rationale for making an explicit commitment to improving the nation's mental health
If we believe that the 'opportunit
In Focus: Early Years
Neuroscience and the Young Brain
Posted by 2020 Conservatives on 2nd April at 12:43pm"If the environment is changing, the brain will change – and the environment is changing"
Crossbench peer Baroness Susan Greenfield gave this stark warning in a speech to the 2020 Conservatives group, headed by Greg Barker MP.
She spoke alongside 2020 grou
Early Years Intervention – Why Love Matters
Posted by Andrea Leadsom on 23rd April at 1:48pmTwo of Britain's great social achievements of the last century were to create universal education and free healthcare for all. In the 21st century we face a social challenge at least as great - to turn around the devastation wrought on our society by the impac