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The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past | Editorial Editorial: Megawatt fast EV charging reflects a coordinated grid strategy the UK once used. Privatisation and fragmentation now make that infrastructure far harder to build

“The ‘privatisation premium’, according to an analysis by the Common Wealth thinktank, sees almost a quarter of the average household energy bill – roughly £450 – flow today into corporate profits.”

Our latest briefing covered in @theguardian.com 👇

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Thanks for shining a light on this.

This is a great write up of an underreported story.

(a) it's crazy that a minister responded "that's life" to a council in financial straits;

(b) it's crazier still that £3m of extra funding will apparently fund so little care because the system is entirely run in private interests.

We reference this excellent report in our latest blog post. The wealth extraction from public services should be deeply concerning to us all.

Steve Reed, HCLG Minister allegedly said, “That’s life” in response to a discussion about Hartlepool’s request for additional funding to cover their children’s social care costs.
Read our latest blog by @ruthhannan.bsky.social on the big problem in care carefulleconomy.co.uk/2026/03/04/t...

Join our team! We’re recruiting for a Head of Research and Policy (maternity cover).

Are you a feminist with a good knowledge of the main economic issues affecting women? Do you have great research skills, experience on policy, project management and people management skills?

It's #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek! Around the world, people are coming together to demand an economy that puts people and planet first - and showing how it's already being done.

Sign the petition calling on leaders to redesign our economies to put people and planet at the centre: vist.ly/4p5xr

If you're interested in thinking about care differently, this could be a good place to start.

Promotional image for a JRF webinar titled "UK Poverty 2026: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK," featuring an adult pushing a stroller and walking with a child, set for January 29, 2026, from 10:30 AM to 12 PM, with a red brick house in the background.

📅 Save the date!

On Thursday 29th Jan, we'll be hosting a webinar to discuss the findings of our UK Poverty 2026 report.

We'll share insight and discussion about our report that will set out the depth and breadth of poverty in the UK.

Don't miss out, sign up now: https://bit.ly/459R16V

Perspectives After pushing care to the margins for too long, we think it deserves a transformative relaunch. That’s why we’ve started Care Full, a space to think more expansively about care in a new…

To relaunch our blog we're sharing our thoughts on the New Zealand court ruling on family carers employment status and rights.
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Thanks to @highpaycentre.bsky.social for showing how deep inequality runs. Is a CEO worth 1500 of the rest of us?

We've (naturally) run the numbers for unpaid carers too; Melrose's CEO package is over 13,600x what carers live on. Our priorities are upside down. Let’s change them.

The highest paid FTSE 100 CEO in 2025 took just over two hours to earn the same as the typical UK worker will all year.

This level of inequality is both morally unacceptable and damaging to society.

Can we really justify a top boss earning 1509 times the typical worker?

A wonderful piece on grassroots, local focused women-led solidarity action in Liverpool. Very inspiring. Worth a read @hannahwebster.bsky.social especially the march with the bin workers.

Four-day week may be considered a sign of failure, England councils told Local government secretary writes to town halls warning them against ‘part-time work for full-time pay’

Four day week has real potential to shape a new improved way of working for us all. Especially those with a relationship to care. Deeply disappointing & maddening from the Gvnt. @autonomy-institute.bsky.social @4dayweek.bsky.social
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Publications Reports and publications Running on empty: unpaid carer’s experiences of fuel poverty in the UK An estimated 6.1 million households in the UK are in fuel poverty, their finances strained unde…

Reporting on the £28bn investment on energy infrastructure is making my blood boil. 2 days after our fuel poverty report. Green energy is seen as a cost but never any scrutiny of the £125billion energy company profits.
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There are a few places left for our exciting London event on Friday with People's Economy. Exploring how London can centre care in its economy.
Tickets are free and you can sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-a...

What does the gig economy reveal to us about the wider systems that connect us all? And what do we do about it?

In our latest episode of Words of Affirmation - out now - our brilliant guest Joe Durbidge from @iwgbunion.bsky.social joins us fo discuss. Listen at linktr.ee/carefulleconomy

Let's not perpetuate this language. Let's call it what it is. Hateful. Rooted in bigotry and the gateway drug that allowed austerity to destroy lives.

Labour must back delivery drivers sacked by DPD, former cabinet minister says Louise Haigh criticises delivery company over treatment of workers who spoke out against pay cuts

Normalisation of "gig work" & "gig economy" masks the precarity of work that nearly 5m undertake. This is the tip of an iceberg of the erosion of workers rights.
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We spoke to lovely Joe, from @iwgbunion.bsky.social for Words of Affirmation. Give it a listen.

More wise words from @carefull.bsky.social, this time on Paul Scholes' announcement that he's sidelining paid work to care for his autistic son. This is a dilemma that affects so many carers in our economy; article link in the comments

Isolating carers is an own goal for all of us | LBC Paul Scholes’ wealth doesn’t protect him from the worries about his son’s future, but it does enable him to give up paid work without any impact on his family’s financial wellbeing, writes Ruth Hannan

Read the full article from our co-founder @ruthhannan.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/article/isol...

This week Paul Scholes shared his experiences of caring for his son alongside his professional role and it resonated with us. In our economy - that devalues and isolates care - the challenges he faced are shared by millions, but not everyone has the resources he has to fall back on.

Did you see our new report launched yesterday? Check out our thread below.

Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctors appointment or helping a neighbour with their shopping, we all want to care and be cared for.

But in the economy we have millions who care are struggling to survive, left to worry about how to care for someone and look after themselves..

At Care Full we support the four-day week for its potential benefits to unpaid carers. The government needs to catch up. The evidence points to too many positives to ignore.

On the International Day of Care and Support, this week’s New Economy Brief explores what the Carer's Allowance scandal tells us about how our economy and society undervalue care: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/w...

An excellent briefing on all things care related. Pulling together issues with our current model and setting out the potential for ambitious changes. Thanks for including @carefull.bsky.social new report. Out today.

Care Solidarity Whether you’re up for the school run, taking Mum to a doctor’s appointment after your shift or helping your neighbour with their shopping,  we all want to care and be cared for. But in t…

You can read the full report at carefulleconomy.co.uk/care-for-eac...

And if you'd like to talk about the work drop us a line!

Our thanks to everyone who contributed to this work and a huge thanks to Bex Gilbert for these gorgeous graphics...

At Care Full we’ve been exploring how the design of the economy shapes all our relationships with care.

Our new report argues it’s time to act together, in solidarity, to take on the root causes of the devaluing of care.

Because we all have care in common, so let’s start with that...