AS COUNCILS and Parliament begin new sessions, action is essential to enable the country to ‘Build Back Better’.


This requires addressing the crisis in social care and post-pandemic employment while meeting the Government’s carbon reduction targets.


These may appear to be separate aims, but all can be addressed if principles of the Green New Deal are adopted.


‘Green’ jobs include both those in environmental infrastructure such as forest management, coastal defence or home insulation and ‘people centred’ employment including health and social care.


Recent data from sources including the Royal Society for the Arts, the TUC and the Green House think tank take account of individual characteristics and needs of constituencies across the country.


For Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole these figures show a likely loss of over 12,000 jobs over the next ten years due to changes following the pandemic, but a potential gain of nearly 14,000 jobs while achieving carbon reductions if a ‘green centred’ plan is followed.


If politicians at all levels from local councils to national government adopt such policies and enact them the country will be able to really ‘Build Back Better’ and safeguard the future.


JULIE WAGG
Gore Road, New Milton