I've just read your articles and find myself in full agreement. For the last 20 years in my business, we've been working to address inequalities in many of the UK's highly deprived communities through enabling people to 'give themselves a job' (and social and financial and economic inclusion, a better future for themselves and their children, and a break in the cycle of deprivation and generational unemployment) through enterprise education and support. Many of these have little or no skills, and multiple disadvantages - and yet our 3 year survival rates beat the national average.
Whilst Chair of the IED until the end of last year, I led a piece of research into Social Value in Construction, "From the Ground Up", revealing much of it to be highly tokenistic, when, if done with meaning and purpose it could be a force for good to help level up. I often give talks about our rising, structural and deepening inequalities, and how this is going to take more than a generation and a short term policy to fix, though there are of course some immediate levers that can be applied. It is a moral imperative that we as a nation, and as a government, fix this sickening wealth disparity, especially given the rise in food banks and child poverty.
Dear Liam,
I've just read your articles and find myself in full agreement. For the last 20 years in my business, we've been working to address inequalities in many of the UK's highly deprived communities through enabling people to 'give themselves a job' (and social and financial and economic inclusion, a better future for themselves and their children, and a break in the cycle of deprivation and generational unemployment) through enterprise education and support. Many of these have little or no skills, and multiple disadvantages - and yet our 3 year survival rates beat the national average.
Whilst Chair of the IED until the end of last year, I led a piece of research into Social Value in Construction, "From the Ground Up", revealing much of it to be highly tokenistic, when, if done with meaning and purpose it could be a force for good to help level up. I often give talks about our rising, structural and deepening inequalities, and how this is going to take more than a generation and a short term policy to fix, though there are of course some immediate levers that can be applied. It is a moral imperative that we as a nation, and as a government, fix this sickening wealth disparity, especially given the rise in food banks and child poverty.
You have my support!
Bev Hurley CBE