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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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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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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💥 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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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...

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

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

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...

It's been great to be at the #TotalPlaceNow conference today where we’re discussing why if we want to make people happier, healthier and better off, we need to put local voices at the heart of the conversation around public service design and delivery.

@wearenewlocal.bsky.social

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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The moral grimness of this aside, it's quite striking how much this DOGE alumnus sounds like a caricature of a bureaucrat.

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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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 🔽🔽🔽

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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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How this happened - the last time a former Prime Minister was restored to power - is described in my essay on the February 1974 election in this book (link) I’ve always found Feb 74 one of the most interesting contests and results post-war www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis...

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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How wonderfully put 😉

By rights, there are about 1000 people in the US who should right now have this look of terror on their face. Starting with Donald Trump.

New Green Book to ensure that investment in all parts of the UK given a "fair hearing" New guidance will support fairer and more balanced decisions on investment in every part of the country.

There's been a lot going on of late, so you'd be forgiven for missing the fact that earlier this month the Treasury issued an updated version of its 'Green Book' - which could have a significant impact on how public money is invested beyond London and the South East

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The state is failing — No 10 needs an overhaul No PM can succeed when an underpowered operation is unable to command the civil service

"Slow, secretive and sclerotic, the government machinery itself is jammed. Our good intentions, in a busted system, are not enough. You need scepticism, a plan and some history."

Thoughtful piece from @benjudah.bsky.social on the problems with the British state

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This is a very good interview, I agree, although I’m less supportive of Jack’s comments on statins and orthopaedic shoes…. @jackkessler.bsky.social

Record Debt in the World’s Richest Nations Threatens Global Growth

‘In Britain it will cost at least 300billion pounds ($410billion) to upgrade infrastructure over the next decade according to Future Governance Forum’

@nytimes.com story by @patcohen.bsky.social illustrates the scale of the infrastructure challenge facing the UK 🔽

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John Oxley points out the clear yet often overlooked point that young men 18-24 are the second most liberal, left-leaning group in society (after young women) - being more so than young-ish thirtysomething women, and older women, as well as than men in older cohorts