Natalie Williams, Head of Policy and Public Affairs (Child Rights), CRAE, part of Just for Kids Law — The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) is part of the charity Just for Kids Law. We work with over 100 organisations and individuals to promote, monitor and implement children’s rights and the UNCRC — making us one of the biggest children’s rights coalitions in the world. We believe that…

Ed Atkins — In the first few days of COP26 at Glasgow, a flurry of announcements pledged to ramp up efforts to mitigate climate change. …

Dr Leslie Mabon — More than 10 years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 11 March 2011 disabled cooling systems at the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear power plant, setting in motion a catastrophic chain of events that led to the release of large quantities of radioactive matter into the land…

Matthew Ponsford, London National Park City Volunteer Ranger — This blog post is part of the ‘Where we live next’ series that examines people-powered environmental sustainability policy solutions by amplifying a range of diverse voices and perspectives in the environmental policy space. During the past year’s lockdowns, for many homebound Londoners, summertime escapes to traditional parks have been followed…

A provocation paper — Dr Abigail Hackett and Professor Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University Introduction Young children’s language development has long been the focus of policy anxiety and intervention, regarded as evidence of the “proper” development of the child and a predictor of future educational and economic success. But are we looking in the right…

A provocation paper — Professor Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law, University of Nottingham Introduction Sustainable development — development ‘that meets the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’[i] — is a pressing issue for policymakers, civil society and academics whose work focuses on…

In summer 2020, Ofqual, the body responsible for regulating the award of general qualifications in England, put in place arrangements to enable grades for GCSEs, A levels and BTECs to be awarded in the absence of the normal end-of-course exams being able to take place because of the COVID-19 pandemic…

This blog draws on a discussion held on 21 September 2020, jointly hosted by the Royal Society’s Living Landscapes programme and the British Academy, as part of a new programme of work on environmental sustainability, Where We Live Next. …

A new sustainability blog series from the British Academy “Places matter to people. They shape the way we live our lives, feel about ourselves and the relationships we have with others. …