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Wise Group and Purpose Coalition host skills roundtable as part of the Commission on Breaking Down Barriers to Employment Opportunity
Wise Group and Purpose Coalition host skills roundtable as part of the Commission on Breaking Down Barriers to Employment Opportunity

The Wise Group and The Purpose Coalition has held a skills roundtable in Westminster, co-chaired by Wise Group CEO Sean Duffy and Crossbench Peer Lord Walney on the future of skills, as part of the Breaking Down Barriers to Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Business and Trade Select Committee Chair Rt Hon Liam Byrne joins senior business leaders for Westminster roundtable 
Business and Trade Select Committee Chair Rt Hon Liam Byrne joins senior business leaders for Westminster roundtable 

Senior business leaders today joined Chair of the Business and Trade Select Committee and former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, at a major roundtable in Westminster that explored the leadership role that British business can play in tackling barriers to opportunity in partnership with the next government.

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Labour MP candidate Luke Charters visits Clifton Park Hospital in York to see high quality healthcare in action
Labour MP candidate Luke Charters visits Clifton Park Hospital in York to see high quality healthcare in action

Luke Charters - Labour’s Candidate for York Outer in this year’s General Election – has visited Clifton Park Hospital in the constituency to meet local doctors, nurses and wider staff working at the hospital to deliver high quality healthcare to patients across York, and further afield.

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Nick Forbes CBE visits Ramsay Health Care UK’s Tees Valley Hospital to see people caring for people in action
Nick Forbes CBE visits Ramsay Health Care UK’s Tees Valley Hospital to see people caring for people in action

Purpose Coalition Engagement Director and former Member of Keir Starmer’s Shadow Cabinet, Nick Forbes CBE has visited Purpose Coalition partner and leading independent healthcare provider, Ramsay Health Care UK, to see first-hand its work at Tees Valley Hospital.

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The Breaking Down Barriers officially launches in Parliament – a new social contract to power-up Britain.
The Breaking Down Barriers officially launches in Parliament – a new social contract to power-up Britain.

The Purpose Coalition’s new Breaking Down Barriers Commission has officially launched in Parliament - an important initiative to tackle inequality with a renewed partnership between government and industry.

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Purpose Coalition introduces the fifteenth Purpose Goal - Working in Partnership
Purpose Coalition introduces the fifteenth Purpose Goal - Working in Partnership

Goal 15 - Working in Partnership - will promote the need for organisations to work in partnership to boost equality of opportunity. By fostering strategic alliances with unions and citizens assemblies, organisations can harness diverse talent and perspectives, and ensure their initiatives are grounded in the needs of real-world communities.  

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Wendy Morton MP visits Pertemps office in Aldridge to see how its commitment to breaking down barriers is making a difference in the West Midlands
Wendy Morton MP visits Pertemps office in Aldridge to see how its commitment to breaking down barriers is making a difference in the West Midlands

Pertemps is the UK’s largest recruitment agency, with over 200 offices across the UK. It directly employs 1,550 members of staff, manages up to 40,000 temporary workers for clients at any one time and places around 12,000 candidates in permanent roles each year.

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Northern Gas Networks Partners with the Breaking Down Barriers Commission to Foster Inclusive Opportunities
Northern Gas Networks Partners with the Breaking Down Barriers Commission to Foster Inclusive Opportunities

The collaboration marks a significant commitment from NGN to leverage its industry leadership and resources in breaking down systemic barriers, ensuring equal opportunities for all. 

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Upcoming events

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Breaking Down Barriers: Citizens Assemblies - a model for Britain's future?
May 7
Breaking Down Barriers: Citizens Assemblies - a model for Britain's future?

The Purpose Coalition is now exploring how the model of citizens assemblies can be expanded to developed to cover more aspects of public policy making to ensure decisions are made that are both long-lasting and have had the necessary stakeholder consultation to make them work. In order to be truly successful, these should include businesses, universities, and our public health services, in partnership with local and national government.

Breaking Down Barriers: Getting Britain building? How can we build new homes and sustainable infrastructure?
May 7
Breaking Down Barriers: Getting Britain building? How can we build new homes and sustainable infrastructure?

with Labour MP, Andrew Western

Westminster, London

Getting Britain building again is one of Labour’s key missions, from more homes, to investment in key infrastructure such as roads and railways. This roundtable with Andrew Western MP - described as Parliament’s ‘biggest YIMBY’ will explore what that could mean, and the role organisations have to play - from fast- track planning to supporting communities with new development.

Breaking Down Barriers to Law
May 20
Breaking Down Barriers to Law

with Shadow Minister for Legal Services, Alex Cunningham MP

Virtual

This roundtable will explore how law firms and Ministers in the next Labour government can work with the profession to get more people into law from a diverse range of backgrounds.

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Improving Recovery by Getting Patients Home Sooner
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Levelling up Essex
Sean Duffy on Wise Group’s 40-Year Evolution in Combatting Unemployment and Housing Issues
Sean Duffy on Wise Group’s 40-Year Evolution in Combatting Unemployment and Housing Issues

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