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If power without preparation serves no one, how are we preparing communities for devolution?
The former head of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in Tony Blair’s Government wrote that ‘Power without preparation serves no one’ at the end of his recent blogpost. Taking that statement and applying it to ’empowering communities’ across the country, what preparations should they/we be making? “I’ve been struck this year by several comments and…
*Cambridge, can we set up groups like these?* On growing social infrastructure
‘Wouldn’t it be nice if that social group from that reel had a base in Cambridge as well as London’ …is something I often find myself thinking. Which is why this blogpost reads as a meandering brain-dump. That said, at the end we find very recent research (October 2026-recent) shows many of the things listed…
MPs highlight the enfeebled state of adult education provision
A new report by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Further Education and Lifelong Learning is damning on the successive cuts to this sector You can read the report by the Association of Colleges for the APPG here Definition of Adult Education The report defines it as: “Adult education can be summarised as the…
