Freddie Wilkinson

PhD Candidate at QMUL researching the abundance and distribution of marine megafauna. Part-time wonk in energy policy for the ADE. Views my own etc.

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New Jesus just dropped… 🐊 #parthenogenesis https://t.co/yme1dyV4A0

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Watching @BBCNews and delighted at the feature on the peregrines nesting on St Albans, but the stock footage they showed was of red kites… I say this with love, but how ornithologically illiterate #notangryjustdisappointed

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In addition, the need to address key gaps in performance data regarding the number of agency and pool staff in general practice and hospitals
#PerformanceTracker2019

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Prof. Andrew Hardy, @CIPFA Vice President addressing joint @instituteforgov @CIPFA #PerformanceTracker2019 launch says an overreliance on agency workers in #NHS and 100k vacant positions should be cause for concern.

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Fantastic to be back @instituteforgov for the launch of #PerformanceTracker19. Essential analysis of the state of public services - whoever forms the next government, tackling rising demand for general practice, hospitals and adult social care will need to be prioritised.

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. @NJ_Davies opening @instituteforgov
#PerformanceTracker2019 launch event: the election campaign so far has featured large spending pledges from both Labour and the Conservatives

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The Party Conferences revealed that, when it comes to health and social care, headline-grabbing proposals were prioritised above long-term thinking - leaving fundamental questions unaddressed. My blog for @instituteforgov:
https://t.co/1rIGERL5Jd

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This week in public services:

- Labour and Tory party conferences - the policy proposals
- Raising the roof on DHSC capital spending limits
- Academy Chief's expansion fears
- Why most police forces don't record 'stop and account'

https://t.co/1Qrqm954AR

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New @instituteforgov report finds that the lack of functioning government in Northern Ireland (none for 1000 days) risks "stagnation and decay" in public services
https://t.co/S9TveRUHqF

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#impact

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Can we learn anything from German social care reform - and what happened to the fiscal rule book? Public services news inc. review of @instituteforgov report on outsourcing

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First time we're hearing details of the gov's plan for social care in the #SpendingRound, but the £1.5bn announced for next year falls short of the £2.4bn councils asked for:

https://t.co/WBXlBaod9T

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Bumper review of last week's public services news and gov. spending pledges ahead of today's #SpendingRound:
- How education £ stack up
- No Deal and the NHS
- Johnson's promise to fix social care

https://t.co/tGusE5oYuC

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My colleagues @NJ_Davies, @GrahamTAtkins, @ben_guerin, @gemmatetlow and I shall be following #SpendingRound developments today. Commentary a mere taste of the smorgasbord of public services analysis that is Performance Tracker, to be published in a few weeks

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As my colleague @GrahamTAtkins points out, new @instituteforgov analysis shows that, to end austerity in public services, prisons and adult social care are most in need of a funding boost #SpendingRound

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This Week in Public Services:
- Johnson's Justice Policy Blizzard
- Old and New Money for NHS Capital Funding
- The Health Benefits of Working 8 Hours a Week
https://t.co/JE1BCwG1p6

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This week in Public Services:
- Boris' spaffing spending spree
- Matt Hancocked up the release of his own green paper
- Mind the gap between girls and boys at KS2
- Why we may need to hold our horses on social care reform

https://t.co/Wmuiegbw5T

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This Week in Public Services:
The questions we should ask about the potential funding boost for schools
The ‘deluge’ of drugs in prisons
An epidemiological approach to youth violence
Whether ‘Communitisation’ of public services the new ‘Third Way’
https://t.co/hsJ9JmR2dw

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Latest from The Week in Public Services:

- NHS Long-Term Plan requires more funding if it is to genuinely improve care
- Knife crime continues to rise
- Will we see crowdfunded councils?

https://t.co/GE7i9BT2M5

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It’s all about to kick off ⁦@instituteforgov⁩’s 10 year anniversary conference! 10 years of working to make government more effective #IfG10