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In this first serious response to the era of post financial and political meltdown, best-selling author and social and political commentator Anthony Seldon lays out a blueprint for regaining trust within the national life. In the absence of coherent political leadership on vital social issues, Trust looks beyond politics to deliver a deeply considered and exhaustively researched recipe for social harmony and individual wellbeing.
20 Proposals from Trust
- National community service for one year for all at 18
- The Church of England to have a Reformation after 500 years to reboot it
- Every city to have a mayor, and every county to have a governor
- ‘Positive policing’ to be adopted by the police, with the balance tilted decisively towards deterrence
- All leaders – political, financial, military, etc – to spend five minutes each day in absolute silence
- Annual prize-givings in each locality for those with the highest trust footprints
- The House of Lords to be replaced by a Senate directly elected by proportional representation
- The NHS to champion ‘positive health’, i.e. promoting healthy living, rather than illness treatment
- All children to have 10 hours of sport a week: national sport to be subject to trust test
- Parks and green areas to be created on brownfield sites– minimum 20% of each city and town
- Journalism to become a profession with the same ethical standards as doctors
- Parliamentarians to pass a qualification of proficiency and ethical standards
- Schools to be about education again, and the factory school/drill ground approach to be ended
- Business and finance to be required to meet a rigorous annual Corporate and Social Responsibilty and CMR test
- 'Trust trading’ to be introduced: trust damaging actions must be balanced by trust positive actions
- Britain to take ‘trusteeship’ seriously and become the world’s leading clean energy provider
- Trust and reconciliation council to screen prisoners for amnesty for pledge not to re-offend
- Britain’s top 1000 role models to serve on panel as national exemplars for five years
- National awards ceremony for companies and institutions which build trust
- ‘Arts for all' – the arts to receive a massive boost regionally and locally
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