Fixing Britain with Louise Casey

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Baroness Casey looks at some of the challenges facing whoever wins the general election.

Baroness Casey looks at the challenges facing whoever wins the general election, beginning with tackling rough sleeping.

For 25 years, Baroness Casey, Louise Casey, has been Britain's fixer-in-chief, the person Prime Ministers turn to when they've got a tricky social problem to fix. Now, at the start of a General Election year, she looks ahead to the challenges which will face whoever wins. Examining 5 major areas of policy on she has worked, but which have remained stubbornly un-fixed by governments of all political colours, she asks why that is. Delving into the deeper reasons problems remain un-solved, at questions of governance and political complexity, she asks what we need from our government, at every level, to make things work better.

In this first episode Louise examines rough sleeping - an area she has helped fix - twice, first under Labour then under the Conservatives. Why has the problem - twice fixed - twice resurfaced? In London she meets a man who is now living off the street for the first time in years, as well as a woman still sleeping rough, as she tries to find out what isn't clicking within the system. And catching up again with people she first worked with 25 years ago - from ministers at the centre of government to charity workers - she examines what it will take inside government to fix it again, and keep it fixed.

Producer: Giles Edwards.

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