A year on from the Supreme Court gender ruling, here’s how the EHRC rebuilds trust By Hamida Ali, FGF’s Head of Learning and Partnerships

📆 The one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s gender ruling must serve as an opportunity for a course correction at the #EHRC.

Here’s how they can do it:

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A year on from the Supreme Court gender ruling, here’s how the EHRC rebuilds trust By Hamida Ali, FGF’s Head of Learning and Partnerships

📆 The one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s gender ruling must serve as an opportunity for a course correction at the #EHRC.

Here’s how they can do it:

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We've very excited to be working with @kinship.works on this exciting new project, supported by the @barrowcadbury.bsky.social.

People are innovating all around the ‘edges’ of the civic sphere and it's vital the centre learns from this knowledge and experience to improve the way we govern.

From Whitehall to the high street: why named community sponsorship could transform how the UK welcomes refugees The government has committed to named community sponsorship. Designed well, it could it could devolve real decision-making over migration from Whitehall to local communities

Hannah Gregory, Global Director, Knowledge and Sponsorship at Pathways International, explores how a new model of Named Community Sponsorship could re-shape the #asylum system in the UK.

Read Hannah’s guest blog for FGF 🔽

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With the Home Sec announcing a new community sponsorship scheme, Hannah shares what's 'new' in what the Home Sec has promised and what the opportunity is - from govt devolving power & working in partnership with communities to building public consent

Read more 👇

From Whitehall to the high street: why named community sponsorship could transform how the UK welcomes refugees The government has committed to named community sponsorship. Designed well, it could it could devolve real decision-making over migration from Whitehall to local communities

Hannah Gregory, Global Director, Knowledge and Sponsorship at Pathways International, explores how a new model of Named Community Sponsorship could re-shape the #asylum system in the UK.

Read Hannah’s guest blog for FGF 🔽

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💥 Today @futuregovforum.bsky.social launches our new three-year strategy 💥

Our work on asylum & migration will continue - exploring how we can deliver a more effective approach to asylum & migration that sustains greater public confidence and remains consistent with int. law & progressive values

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After years of crisis the UK needs a radical change of direction.

Our new Three Year Strategy aims to put FGF at the forefront of designing and sustaining a new vision for Britain - and will help our work transforming the state to renew the nation 🔽🔽🔽

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Our new ‘Reform and renewal of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’ report contains recommendations for big changes to the EHRC

Watch FGF’s Hamida Ali explain more🔽

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Why the EHRC’s future is at risk unless big changes are made By Nathan Yeowell, FGF Executive Director

Why the EHRC’s future is at risk unless big changes are made

New blogpost by @futuregovforum.bsky.social director @yeowell.bsky.social

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Our new ‘Reform and renewal of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’ report contains recommendations for big changes to the EHRC

Watch FGF’s Hamida Ali explain more🔽

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Watch FGF’s Hamida Ali explain how our new ‘Vital institutions 01, Reform and renewal of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’ report would strengthen the EHRC

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Vital Institutions 01: Reform and renewal of the Equality and Human Rights Commission - Future Governance Forum A new report published by FGF has called for reform of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to strengthen equality and human rights protection for people living in the UK.

The @EHRC is a vital institution, but its future is at risk unless major changes made to strengthen the vital work it does.

Our new FGF report contains recommendations to reform and strengthen this vital institution 🔽

www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/resource/vit...

FGF’s Hamida Ali is currently chairing a panel at #TotalPlaceNow conference on why place-based budgets can be drivers of public service reform.

Central government is ready to engage with this agenda – now we’re hearing from experts across local and national government about how to make this happen.

'Why Total Place is vital for Labour’s chance of reforming public services' - LabourList Total Place is based on the simple idea that all the money spent in an area on health, schools, social services, benefits, police and other services can be seen as a single pool of public service spen...

NEW - In @labourlist.bsky.social, John Denham explains ‘Why Total Place is vital for Labour’s chance of reforming public services’, ahead of today’s #TotalPlaceNow conference.

@jydenham.bsky.social

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FGF spoke today at an important event on Barking & Dagenham’s inclusive growth policy.

With Prof Tony Travers & @jacktshaw.bsky.social, we argued for stronger local, regional & national govt relationships, and strategic authority partnerships to unlock investment.

More detail 🔽🔽
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FGF’s Spring Statement response By Dan Corry, FGF Chief Economist

So much going on at the moment, that it was easy to miss the Chancellor's spring statement last week. The bigger policy announcements will wait until the Mais lecture later in March, but here's @danrcorry.bsky.social's take on what we heard last week: futuregovforum.substack.com/p/fgfs-sprin...

International Women's Day: How to prevent violence against women Writing on International Women’s Day, campaigners call for incentives on public services to prevent violence against women, writes Polly Neate.

On #InternationalWomen'sDay the chair of FGF’s Social Insights Panel, @pollyneate.bsky.social has written an article in @bigissue.com on why a radical shift to prevention is the only way to end violence against women & girls.

#IWD2026

Read Polly’s article 🔽🔽🔽

www.bigissue.com/opinion/inte...

Mark Sandford: Scrutinising the local state A local public accounts committee model could examine how mayors are performing their stewardship roles, writes an honorary professor at the School for

Mark Sandford from the House of Commons Library has written a Local Government Chronicle article which highlights FGF's Impactful Devolution 04 report on strategic authorities.

Read it here 🔽

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Mark Sandford: Scrutinising the local state A local public accounts committee model could examine how mayors are performing their stewardship roles, writes an honorary professor at the School for

Mark Sandford from the House of Commons Library has written a Local Government Chronicle article which highlights FGF's Impactful Devolution 04 report on strategic authorities.

Read it here 🔽

www.lgcplus.com/politics/dev...

International Women's Day: How to prevent violence against women Writing on International Women’s Day, campaigners call for incentives on public services to prevent violence against women, writes Polly Neate.

On #InternationalWomen'sDay the chair of FGF’s Social Insights Panel, @pollyneate.bsky.social has written an article in @bigissue.com on why a radical shift to prevention is the only way to end violence against women & girls.

#IWD2026

Read Polly’s article 🔽🔽🔽

www.bigissue.com/opinion/inte...

Why the Home Secretary is taking a gamble with her asylum reforms, and what a progressive alternative should look like

New blog at @futuregovforum.bsky.social ⬇️

The Home Secretary is taking a huge gamble with her asylum reforms - but there is a progressive alternative By Emily Graham, FGF Policy Associate

Ahead of today's speech by Shabana Mahmood on #asylum, FGF’s @emilyagraham.bsky.social sets out a progressive alternatives to how government can deliver on asylum, preserve fundamental rights while restoring order, safety and trust.

Read it here 🔽🔽🔽

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FGF’s Spring Statement response By Dan Corry, FGF Chief Economist

Read our FGF takeaways from the Chancellor’s #SpringStatement, her forthcoming 2026 Mais Lecture and the government's autumn Budget ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Watch FGF Chief Economist, Dan Corry, explain how the government’s new Green Book has taken on board lots of things FGF have called for, especially changes that will be good for investment projects outside London and the SE 🔽🔽🔽

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Quite the finding in @philtinline.bsky.social @futuregovforum.bsky.social report on power

Nearly 61% who think their local high street is bad blame the council - just 37% think it's changing consumer demands

Telling how often it is institutions, not social forces, people point the finger at!

A new relationship between people and state: how can government make a success of Pride in Place? YouTube video by The Future Governance Forum (FGF)

Missed our event on how government can make a success of Pride in Place?

We were joined by an expert panel for a lively discussion on what makes Pride in Place different from neighbourhood policy efforts that have come before.

Watch the event back now 👇
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Delighted to be asked to talk about my Power Failure paper for @futuregovforum.bsky.social with the inestimable @jamesomalley.co.uk

Watch FGF Chief Economist, Dan Corry, explain how the government’s new Green Book has taken on board lots of things FGF have called for, especially changes that will be good for investment projects outside London and the SE 🔽🔽🔽

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Shorter, better, fairer, stronger: Why the new Green Book is an encouraging update The revised Green Book looks better. But the key to seeing more productive investment in all parts of the country is political will in Westminster ...

Now that the revised Green Book is here, how’s it looking? Dan has written for @civilserviceworld.bsky.social and argues it is an encouraging start.

But it will still be *political will* more than anything that determines whether investment materialises: www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...