CentreForum Chief Economist warns over benefits cap
23 January 2012
CentreForum's Chief Economist Tim Leunig has issued a warning over government plans to cap benefits at £26,000 a year.
Writing in the Guardian, Tim argues that the cap will force claimants to live on as little as 62p per person per day after rent, council tax and utilities. His analysis applies to a family with four children, living in private rented accommodation in Tolworth, the London Borough of Kingston.
Nick Clegg speech on 'responsible capitalism'
16 January 2012
Nick Clegg delivered a keynote speech to CentreForum and the City of London Corporation.
See coverage of the event on the BBC, Sky, Guardian, Independent and Telegraph.
The full text of the speech can be accessed here.
Employee empowerment: towards greater workplace democracy
There is strong evidence that giving employees more of a voice in the firm that employs them is of benefit to both the firm and the employees. Just as important is the democratic case: employees have a fundamental right to be involved in key decisions that affect their lives.
Boosting employee participation should therefore be an integral part of the coalition's growth strategy of supply-side reforms.
In this report, CentreForum sets out a package of measures that the government should consider to promote employee empowerment and workplace democracy.
Download the full report.
"Increased employee participation in how companies are run has been a longstanding Liberal Democrat principle, and CentreForum offers some radical proposals for how this can be promoted. Their paper deserves serious consideration."
- Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister
"There is strong evidence that the combination of employee empowerment and employee share ownership can help boost company performance. The CentreForum paper makes a powerful case for why this should be embraced as part of the coalition government's growth strategy of long term suppy-side reforms."
- Ed Davey MP, Minister of State for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs
London schooling: lessons from the capital
Gill WynessThe report 'London schooling: lessons from the capital' measures the academic attainment of pupils with similar characteristics (the same income background, ethnicity, language and gender) across London and the rest of England.
It concludes that London's pupils are achieving better-than-expected results at most ages and levels of attainment. That is, pupils in the capital at Key Stage 1 (ages 5-7) are performing no better or worse than those in other regions of England, but then start to pull away from their non-London counterparts at Key Stage 2 (7-11), with the results gap remaining at Key Stage 4 (14-16).
Download the full report.
Click here to view table showing pupil performance by English local authority.
"This study underlines an argument we have been consistently making. Deprivation need not be destiny. There are some superb state schools in disadvantaged areas generating fantastic results, such as Mossbourne Academy in Hackney or Burlington Danes in Hammersmith."
- Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education
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Calculating how the benefit cap cuts – Tim Leunig
Today I published an analysis of the government’s £26,000 benefits cap for people out of work. It makes for grim reading. After basic expenses – rent, council tax and utilities...
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Should we be convinced by the Busan aid ‘agreement’? Benjamin Halfpenny
Held between 29 November and 1 December 2011 in Busan, South Korea, the fourth high-level forum on aid effectiveness ended on a high. After a tense start and difficult negotiations,...
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Time to put employee ownership and participation back on the political agenda – Chris Nicholson
We want to see democracy, participation and the co-operative principle in industry and commerce within a competitive environment in which the state allows the market to operate freely where possible...
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