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Don’t let COVID-19 reverse our hard-won gains
True Potential Chief Executive Daniel Harrison on the urgent need to close the digital divide to keep social mobility progress on track.
University of Northampton Launches it’s ‘Making a Social Impact’ Plan
The University of Northampton has today unveiled a new action plan to increase access to career opportunities in Northampton, in partnership with former Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Justine Greening.
True Potential and Harrison Centre Fundraises £8,000 for D2 Youth Zone
A youth project in Newcastle that helps young people make the most of their talents and opportunities has received almost £8,000 from the Harrison Foundation and True Potential.
Digital poverty is a very real and current problem.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on our society and many aspects of how we live and work have changed since March 2020.
True Potential Laptop Donation To Local School Welcomed by Catherine McKinnell MP
Catherine McKinnell, Member of Parliament for Newcastle North, has expressed her gratitude to True Potential for the donation of much needed laptops to Farne Primary School.
Why ‘levelling up’ demands a new cross-party approach
The good news for my family this week was that, alongside a growing number of others, my 99-year-old grandmother, who lives in Rotherham, has now had her Covid-19 vaccination jab.
Drax leads the way in ambitious initiative to improve skills for a million people
Drax is the first UK energy company to announce an initiative to improve employability for a million people by 2025.
Levelling up requires a comprehensive education plan
There is an urgent need to restore confidence in our education system which can only come from setting out a comprehensive education plan. It must bring together real solutions to improve things on the ground as part of a wider levelling up strategy.
Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ plan needs to go beyond the red wall
When Boris Johnson’s government mentions “levelling up”, many ministers discuss it in the context of how Mr Johnson must deliver grass roots change for red wall Tory seats.
The government has vastly underestimated what the public understands as ‘levelling up’
The promise of the 2019 election is not about mending potholes in roads, better trains or hanging baskets, it about real opportunities and real people not ‘things’.
Rishi Sunak must listen to councils to defeat social immobility
Levelling up can only be achieved by working collectively in local areas, writes the former education secretary and founder of the Social Mobility Pledge.
Universities and business must both commit to greater social mobility
The Purpose Coalition will bring together the skills and the jobs needed to create a fairer, greener UK.
OPINION: Rt Hon Justine Greening – why Britain’s 0.7% aid leadership matters
As former Secretary of State for International Development, I believe that levelling up, creating access to opportunities so that people can have a better life and fulfil their potential, isn’t just a domestic challenge it’s a global challenge alongside delivering on net zero. So Britain's leadership on meeting its 0.7% commitment matters.
Ten steps to levelling up Britain in the aftermath of COVID-19
Last week the government revealed its ten-point plan for its version of a green industrial revolution.
Put Yorkshire at heart of green industrial revolution
Whenever new innovations and new industry arrives, it’s a chance for things to get shaken up and reinvented in terms of how they’re done and, crucially, where they’re done.
Justine Greening: Companies need to spend more time focusing on the S in ESG
Greening said: ‘London has to have its own levelling up plan and it needs to be business led’