Sara Elias

✨ Saturday 10th, Committee Room 3A @ 11 (with🥪 ) Join @andyregancdf.bsky.social , Omar Idris and @delythjewell.bsky.social to explore getting policy right by design - fail quick or fail BIG

✨Friday 9th, Main Stage @ 11.45 Join Jonathan Bone, @mabonapgwynfor.bsky.social and Suzanne Cass to debate the politics of preventative health and the need for brave decisions

We're looking forward to attending the @plaidcymru.bsky.social Conference next week, and to having the chance to share our work and ideas.

If you’re at the conference, do come and say hello!

“HMT is the single greatest barrier to devolved policy innovation in the UK”- Mark Drakeford

‘100% agree with that’ - Nicola Sturgeon

@nestauk.bsky.social PolicyLive was a great one!

Out of office on 🍾Eurostar am byth!

Interesting that although the data shows that Scotland and Wales have the highest average costs, the @theguardian.com only appears to have held the UK Gov in England to account. We need national media to play this role across the devolved nations

Today / Heddiw 💥

How does this translate into seats?

Inputting this data using @CavendishCymru seat projector the data looks like this 👇

🔷Reform: 33
🌼PC: 30
🌹Labour: 25
🌳Conservatives: 6
🟠Lib Dems: 2
🟩Green: 0
⬜️Other:0

No party is on course for a majority, 49 seats is the magic number.

🚨 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿New Senedd polling by Sky News / More in Common

Ref narrowly leads on 28% with Plaid just behind on 26%. Labour in third, but on 23% - higher compared to other polls which had them on 18%.

🔷Reform: 28%
🌼 Plaid Cymru: 26%
🌹 Labour: 23%
🌳 Conservatives: 10%
🟠 Lib Dems: 7%
🟩 Green:4%
⬜️Other: 2%

Thrilled to see Nesta's healthier food standards policy adopted by the UK Government this weekend! 🎉

This policy will encourage businesses like supermarkets to make healthier options more accessible, truly making the healthier choice the easier choice for everyone.

Read more 👉 lnkd.in/e24EzAgY

Even more magical - it can sing Happy Birthday, too! You just need to bag an in-person meeting at Cathays Park

Welsh cakes delivered to your desk? Yes, please

👋 @andyregancdf.bsky.social, Jono and I will be in Llandudno for the Welsh Labour conference next week. Fancy a chat? 🌞
We like to chat about how to:
🍎 reduce obesity at pop. level
⚡ speed-up home decarb
👶 use data in the early years
💡 'do' policy differently! Innovation tools and techniques

Cool Cymru If the story of Wales in the 1990s was a movie plot, it would all seem so far-fetched. Thankfully, it was all true...

Cool Cymru am Byth - event next Wednesday! www.cardiff.ac.uk/community/ev...

What is prevention in health and why is it the right approach? Prevention means stopping illness before it starts, so taking this approach can lead to better public health outcomes, productivity gains, and fewer chronic conditions

Prevention can be better than cure. We know this.

But what does prevention mean in health? Why is it often a cheaper and effective route than treatment? And how can it work beyond the NHS?

This new explainer from @nestauk.bsky.social (written using a UK Gov lens) breaks it down: bit.ly/43rGPX1

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation. The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Great to see so many great women on this panel on Prevention and Wellbeing hosted by @futuregencymru.bsky.social

Prevention & well-being event. I like this map of definitions between health and well-being definitions. If we want to work acroas different areas of society, we need to speak the same language

Reducing obesity is urgent and achievable. We need to be bold and brave. I hope that all party manifestos will prioritise obesity as a critical responsibility for the First Minister, committing to halve the disparity in healthy life expectancy between Wales’ richest and poorest regions by 2030

Byddai wedi bod yn grêt i clywed uchelgeisiau mawr am sut y gallwn weithio gyda diwydiant i ddefnyddio eu pŵer i wella ein hamgylchedd bwyd. Edrychwch ar @nestauk.bsky.social s yn galw am y Senedd nesaf i ddarganfod sut rydyn ni'n meddwl y gellir gwneud hyn media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Fi...

Braf oedd cael dadl ar Diabetes Math2 ar y prif lwyfan yn @plaidcymru.bsky.social Drafodeath dda am hygyrchedd i fwyd iach a sut mae bwyd yn cael ei farchnata. Ac yn gadarnhaol clywed am rôl drawslywodraethol ar atal, er mwyn meithrin cydlyniad polisi. Ond…

A plan for a healthy life in Wales Nesta calls for all party manifestos to prioritise obesity as a critical responsibility for the First Minister, committing to halve the disparity in healthy life expectancy between Wales’ richest and ...

It would have been even greater to hear some big, bold ambitions on how we can work with industry to use their marketing power to help improve our food environment. Check out @nestauk.bsky.social s calls for the next Senedd to find out how we think this can be done www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...

It was great to have a debate on Type2 Diabetes on the main stage at @plaidcymru.bsky.social The discussion around accessibility to healthy food and how food is marketed. And positive to hear of a cross-governmental role on prevention, to build policy coherence. But…

Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up

And in Wales?

Our Sustainability qualifications aren't considered Quite the Thing to be GCSEs or A-levels, so it's off to Level 2 & 3 they go. And we all know how much they matter in the school system in Wales.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great day in Cardiff today, marking 10 years of the Future Generations Act (with a fruit platter representing the sustainability goals, amongst other thing). Now onwards to Llandudno

Diwrnod gwych yng Nghaerdydd heddiw, yn nodi 10 mlynedd o Ddeddf Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol (gyda phlat ffrwythau yn cynrychioli’r nodau cynaliadwyedd, ymhlith pethau eraill). Ymlaen i Landudno…

8am-8pm in London today. It’s been a long day, but it’s reignited a bit of passion that I might have lost for the importance of long-term policy making and how it can prepare and bring us together for a better future #futuregenerations #foresight #signals

Love this Heat Pump Tourism story based on our Visit a Heat Pump service. I'd love the Welsh media to do a similar story, so that we can spread the word even more in Wales. It's such a fab service www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Welsh Government must commit to planning reform so we can unleash clean heat We’re proposing three simple planning policies that could support Wales’ clean heat future

Have you ever wondered how we could change the planning system in Wales to make getting a heat pump simpler? (Go on, admit it, I know you have...). Marine Furet sets out the case for what this (or the next) Welsh Government should do. www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-wel...

How public institutions can lead the good food revolution Join us to discover how public procurement can be a powerful tool for driving improvements in public health

How public institutions can lead the good food revolution 🥫

Professor & author Kevin Morgan joins @nesta on 18 Feb to explore why food served in schools, hospitals and prisons could be key for driving improvements in public health - and how policymakers can drive systemic change. bit.ly/3PBGf0U