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🏫Area-based partnerships aim to collaborate with stakeholders to support school improvement initiatives.
📑Paul Wilfred Armstrong and Dr Bee Hughes 🐝 explore ABPs and make recommendations about their governance.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : ow.ly/IWzt50R1W0W

💡 A new paper has been published from the Institute for Government which highlights the policy changes needed to reduce regional inequalities

👏 This follows our series of events in collaboration with IFG, focussed on the levelling up agenda

👉 Read it here: instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/…

💬 The Mental Health Act can be used to detain people experiencing a mental health crisis.

💭 But how do interpreters work with health professionals, & is more training & regulation needed?

👇 Read more from INforMHAA in our new collection #OpenMinds :
…licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/open-minds/ind…

📚The PM's 'Maths to 18' plan aims to ‘boost low numeracy rates’ and equip students for data-intensive jobs.
🔎Maria Pampaka, Laura Black and Julian Williams analyse this proposal and make recommendations.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…

👏 Professor Rob Ford has been cited in a new POST (UK Parliament) briefing - Election turnout: Why do some people not vote?

📄 It highlights possible policy initiatives to encourage democratic participation, and how to reduce turnout inequality

👉 Read here: ow.ly/XRy550RhPVo

📅 Between 2019 and 2021, there were 46,200 deaths due to drugs, alcohol & suicide in England - averaging 42 a day

✍ Christine Camacho & Luke Munford discuss what this means for devolution & levelling up

👉 Read more: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/urban/2024/03/…

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📅Join us on 15 May for our next GM Policy Hub seminar on community-centred approaches to active travel policy

🤝Prof Sheena Cruickshank will discuss creative community approaches to local sources of pollution and barriers to active travel

🔗Register: policy.manchester.ac.uk/events/upcomin…

👉 Last week, we welcomed Huw Edwards MBE from the Industry and Parliament Trust to campus.

📑 Huw facilitated a training session with a group of academics about how to generate policy impact for their research, with a focus on engaging with parliamentary select committees.

📣 Missed our February #GMPolicyHub seminar? A recording is now available on our website.

🚗 The seminar focused on AI and future transport and urban planning.

👉 Watch the recording here lnkd.in/dWUAzzNf

🔎 In #Workingfutures , Rosalind Shorrocks and Anna Sanders outline the GM4Women2028 findings on employment.

👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽 They found the impact of unpaid care on employment affects women across the life course.

…licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/working-future…

📚Policy@Manchester is pleased to publish its new digital report #SchoolMatters .
🔎The University of Manchester and Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) researchers address key challenges facing schools and education policy.
🔗Read #SchoolMatters here: : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…

🤔 How can prison leavers with mental health needs best be supported in reintegrating into communities?

⏳ Here, Dr Jane Senior, Prof Jenny Shaw & Charlotte Lennox suggest Critical Time Intervention as a potential model

👇 Read more:
blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/03/…

📚The PM's 'Maths to 18' plan aims to ‘boost low numeracy rates’ and equip students for data-intensive jobs.
🔎Maria Pampaka, Laura Black and Julian Williams analyse this proposal and make recommendations.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…

🏫Area-based partnerships aim to collaborate with stakeholders to support school improvement initiatives.
📑Paul Wilfred Armstrong and Dr Bee Hughes 🐝 explore ABPs and make recommendations about their governance.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : ow.ly/IWzt50R1W0W

📈The number of young children experiencing poor emotional wellbeing is increasing.
👉Dr Charlotte Bagnall explores the difficulties vulnerable children face in primary-secondary school transitions.
🔗Read more in our new report #SchoolMatters : …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/school-matters…

✏️ Children with #SEND are vulnerable to poor experiences of primary-secondary school transitions.

🤔 This can negatively impact emotional wellbeing and could impact attainment in the long-term. Dr Charlotte Bagnall explores how we can support these children:

blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/11/…

💭 Need some weekend reading?

📑 Our policy article series features over 1,000 pieces from researchers The University of Manchester

🔎 We draw on world-leading research from UoM Humanities, UoM Science and Engineering & UoM Biology, Medicine and Health to provide insight & policy recommendations

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blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk

🚨 Donor-conceived people in the UK have significantly different rights to information depending on their date of conception.

🗃️ New proposals would increase inconsistency and arguably unfairness, say Caroline Redhead & Lucy Frith.

🔎 Read the article here:
blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/11/…

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