Adult social care demand has outstripped capacity for years, with a workforce facing low pay, family carers absorbing the burden, and a reform timetable that continues to be extended.

An ageing population is reshaping health, social care and family life, while end-of-life care raises difficult questions about dignity, choice, workforce and access. This proposed module will explore how services support people through later life and dying, and where policy and provision fall short.

Charity-funded pre-hospital critical care is an essential part of UK emergency provision, reaching patients statutory services cannot, on a model the public may assume the state pays for.

Physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and the wider allied health workforce now drive waiting times across whole services, with shortages quietly determining whether stroke,.

This proposed module will explore how community youth provision supports children at risk of disengagement, and how early, place-based support can complement schools and statutory services. The precise age group, delivery model and location remain to be confirmed.

Permanent exclusions and suspensions have reached record levels, and the evidence linking the loss of a mainstream place to later contact with criminal justice, A&E and long-term worklessness is well established.

Behind the scenes on raceday at Ascot, exploring the scale and craft of one of the world's great sporting venues and horseracing's wider role in rural Britain and the national economy.

Horseracing is a sport worth over £4 billion to the UK, a major rural employer, and built on a fragile economic model.

A day behind the scenes of the Natural History Museum focused on the biodiversity crisis and what it means for policy, constituencies, and delivery.

UK life sciences drive both health outcomes and a serious share of economic growth. Our global standing rests on a small number of institutions, talent flows and policy decisions.

Tour of the National Cycling Centre velodrome and high-performance facilities, looking at athlete pathways and grassroots participation programmes.

Cycling is one of Great Britain’s most successful Olympic sports. The Cohort will visit British Cycling to find out how they support the elite cyclists and harness this to inspire the next generation.

AI is already reshaping productivity, safety and the structure of work. UK regulation, skills and infrastructure decisions in the next few years will decide whether the country leads or follows.

Sport is rarely treated as the serious UK industry it is, despite generating billions in rights, sponsorship, hospitality and export earnings, and underpinning a soft power position few other sectors match.

Interactive symposium exploring sports commerce, examining how sporting institutions deliver social impact, UK sports diplomacy, the future of sports broadcasting, and emerging challenges within sports commerce.

Linking local education to local employers transforms outcomes in areas of coastal and rural deprivation, where the route from school to a decent wage is often the deciding factor in whether young people stay or leave.

Half-day experience exploring community-focused football at Charlton Athletic FC, examining the club's work tackling knife crime and racism, governance evolution, and the operational realities of Championship-level clubs.

Climate is already reshaping NHS demand through heat-related illnesses, air quality, and vector-borne disease, increasing pressure on stretched services.

The Faroe Islands have developed a distinctive initiative to manage the physical impact of tourism while bringing visitors and residents together. The Cohort will examine how the islands balance access, maintenance, community participation and economic benefit, and what UK destinations could learn from the model.

The UK has the longest coastline in Europe, and its citizens’ maritime and coastal safety is often the responsibility of volunteers and services running on donations, covering the full breadth of coastal rescue operations.

Engaging with the key bodies responsible for shaping police leadership and holding forces to account across England and Wales.

Shadowing a GP surgery during the 8am rush to see and hear what GP practice teams do to manage the rush and the types of cases they are dealing with.

The cohort will join shifts with local ambulance, police and fire & rescue crews in their respective constituencies to see how frontline services are carried out in reality.

A large-scale incident forces police, fire and ambulance to make joint decisions, with communications and command centres tested under high pressure.

Almost 200,000 skilled jobs sit inside the UK defence industry, sustaining the country's position as the world's second largest defence exporter and underpinning sovereign capability.

NHS dental access has collapsed across much of the country, with private care the only option for many, children's tooth decay rising and high vacancy rates across the industry.

The UK is a global payments hub generating tens of billions in exports and high-skilled jobs, and that position is not guaranteed with other nations developing fast-growing fintech industries.

Visit to paper recycling facility demonstrating the circular economy from collection through to recycled product manufacturing.

Early years provision sets children up for the rest of their lives, yet the workforce delivering it is often underpaid, under qualified relative to schools, and short staffed.

Supported constituency visits across early years, primary and secondary settings, helping MPs understand what makes an education visit substantive and credit-worthy.

The UK creative sector is a global heavyweight, but the routes in are narrow, often unpaid and overwhelmingly weighted to those who can afford to wait.

Immersive visit to the RNLI Lifeboat College, exploring operational readiness, volunteer training, and the challenges facing coastal rescue.

Energy resilience plans rarely get tested until supply tightens, and the decisions ministers and regulators face in that window are both political and technical, under immense time pressure.

Half-day symposium examining energy grid transformation in the UK, exploring diverse energy sources, stakeholder perspectives, and the challenges and opportunities of transitioning national energy infrastructure.

Rare earth minerals and key components underpin European industry, defence and clean energy, and almost all the supply chain runs through areas overseas.

A residential visit to see some of the world's leading marine and biodiversity research at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and The Eden Project.

How do we train our firefighters? The cohort will visit the Fire Service College to see how recruits are prepared, how serving officers are developed, and what is changing in the calls the service now answers.

Charlton Athletics’ Community Trust reaches young people, families and communities that fall through the gaps, delivering everything from mental health support to literacy programmes.

Motorsport Valley is a £16 billion UK industry, supplying most of the F1 grid and feeding apprenticeships, and engineering skills into the wider economy.

The cohort will spend time at a new housing development and see how homes actually get financed, planned, built at scale and made energy efficient in the process.

Day out with frontline ambulance crews responding to real emergency calls, experiencing the pressures and life-saving work of paramedics across urban and rural communities.

Seeing firsthand how a major national water infrastructure project is being delivered and to understand the balance between environmental stewardship and long-term water security

Two patients in the same postcode can have wildly different experiences of the NHS, with language, mental health, ethnicity and deprivation shaping who actually gets care and who falls through the gaps.

The cohort will go onto a live project inside the Parliamentary estate to see a modernisation project in real time, and see the apprenticeship and post 16 routes into heritage trades and what would help these routes scale

Day visit to Hinkley Point C, exploring the construction of the UK's first new nuclear power station in a generation and its role in delivering low-carbon energy for 6 million homes.

Canary Wharf workshop using practical case studies to examine how investment is secured, how growth is financed and what helps businesses and infrastructure projects move forward.

The UK is a trading nation that imports the bulk of its food, fuel and manufacturing inputs. Disruption at a single port or rail line is therefore felt in every constituency within days.

As an island nation, the Cohort will discover how our interaction with the water and water sports, supports coastal communities’ wellbeing, tourism and maritime industries.

Funding and prioritisation trade-offs that used to sit in Whitehall now sit with Integrated Care Boards, and the decisions involve real money, real services and real political cost.

Interconnectors are a structural part of the UK's power grid, importing cheap power when wind is low and exporting it when wind generation creates a surplus.

As Norway redevelops its total defence model, what does one of the UK’s closest neighbours see as its immediate threats? How does this model—training directly for a career role—differ from the UK’s system and set-up?

An international comparative health module is being developed to examine how another health system organises community care, prevention and workforce delivery. The destination, delivery partners and final programme remain to be confirmed.

Joint operational decisions across fire, ambulance and police are made under live pressure, often within seconds, with no margin and no chance to rerun the call.

Last mile logistics has increasingly become the backbone of a variety of industries, with online ordering reshaping high streets, warehousing reshaping the planning system and gig work reshaping the labour market.

Land use, farming and food security are now one shared question for rural Britain, with farmers asked to deliver food, energy, biodiversity and decarbonisation on the same land.

The Eden Project is an example of what can be done with post-industrial sites and where it is leading the UK with its work on biodiversity, land use and agricultural research.

Leisure and tourism businesses employ around 12% of the UK’s working population, prop up local economies and often run on extremely tight budgets.

A visit to the largest ambulance service in the UK that serves nine million people, touring the site and learning about LAS' specialist teams.

Emergency triage covers mental health, primary care, social care and end of life conversations alongside medical calls, with the service averaging close to 100,000 calls a day.

A modern Fire Brigade handles much more than fires: building safety after Grenfell, road traffic collisions, water rescue, mental health response and an expanding prevention workload now sit in one service.

Day experience exploring operational fire service delivery, examining incident response stages, ongoing firefighter training, risk management processes, and the specialist equipment supporting frontline emergency operations.

The largest mass participation event and the largest single fundraising charity event anywhere in the world.

Stadium and state occasion planning protects the country's most visible public events from terror, crowd control failure and hostile state activity, with reputational and human cost in the balance.

The cohort will run an on-site planning simulation at a super prison build to see if this is true, where the UK is doing well and where overrun and cost escalation occur.

Manufacturing investment decisions turn on skills, energy costs, planning and confidence, and the UK is competing for that investment against countries with cheaper power and faster sites.

Visit to MCA coordination centre to see the Search and Rescue helicopter operations and the coordination of maritime emergencies in the UK and abroad.

Mental health demand has outpaced provision for a decade, with the cost of late intervention landing on A&E, schools, the criminal justice system and families themselves.

A visit to the UK's busiest lifeboat station, exploring the mental health pressures facing frontline responders and the realities of those working at the sharp end of the wider mental health crisis.

The mental health load on frontline services is now the single biggest factor in whether they stay in the job, with PTSD and burnout contributing to poor retention figures.

National parks cover a tenth of England and Wales and depend on a thin layer of rangers and volunteers to stay open, maintain access, manage habitat and host millions of visitors a year.

Outdoor access enables grassroots cycling, walking and rural tourism, with real public health and rural economy returns.

A day with the UKs leading policing and security bodies, covering everything from counterterrorism and organised crime to the future of national policing.

Energy, water, food and digital systems are all serious national security concerns, with state actors, cyber attacks and climate shocks treated as the same problem set.

Two-day visit to Newcastle United Football Club, exploring Premier League operations, community engagement, and the unique relationship between one of the UK's largest clubs and its city.

Football beyond the top-flight is woven into the identity and economy of towns and cities, often as the largest single thing that happens there each week.

Four day experience visiting the National Fire Academy in Norway, exploring a different way of preparing frontline services, as well as a trip to Tromsø to speak with the Arctic Council on preparedness.

As Norway redevelops its total defence model, what does one of the UK’s closest neighbours see as its immediate threats? How does this model—training directly for a career role—differ from the UK’s system and set-up?

The UK’s climate resilience, food systems and maritime economy depend on healthy seas, yet the science informing ocean policy is rarely visible. This proposed module will work with the National Oceanography Centre to explore marine monitoring, coastal risk, biodiversity and the blue economy.

Offshore renewables are critical to the energy transition. The UK has built a world-leading position that is now under pressure from grid delays, supply chains and cost.

The next pandemic will not wait for the UK to be ready. The systems, stockpiles and political instincts crucial to our response are being rebuilt right now.

MPs can volunteer at or run/walk three parkruns over the course of the scheme to see how it brings communities together, encouraging movement and time outdoors.

Neighbourhood policing, public order, counter terrorism and protection of Parliament itself all sit in one force in London, under unique political and operational pressures.

UK pharmaceuticals operate as a high-tech, high-skilled, high export industry with impactful investment choices in front of them.

Post 16 choices shape the future workforce more than any other educational stage, with A levels, T levels, BTECs, apprenticeships and university competing for the same young people.

The cliff edge between school SEND support and adult services can be incredibly hard, with young people losing structure, therapy and routes into work almost overnight;.

The Premier League is a sporting crown jewel with economic and community benefit, and British soft power projected across the world.

The cohort will shadow a full school day in contrasting primaries to see how teachers and senior leadership manage these demands.

The North East runs one of the strongest regional apprenticeship ecosystems in the country, with employers, providers and devolved leadership pulling in the same direction in a way most regions struggle to match.

Centred around The Eden Project and the wider South West, this module looks at the frontline services in hard to reach areas or areas with a lack of infrastructure.

Most emergency response policy is built around the urban model, but remote and rural rescue is a different discipline entirely.

Immersive visit to the RNLI Lifeboat College, exploring operational readiness, volunteer training, and the challenges facing coastal rescue.

Rugby is at a crossroads, with the growth of the women's game and the continued success of international competitions being at odds with the struggles of the club game.

Visit to the rugby league club to explore community programmes, player welfare support and the challenges facing professional rugby league.

Rural and remote areas of the UK face healthcare challenges from service provision to workforce retention.

National safeguarding practice reviews highlight consistent patterns: information held by one agency often doesn’t reach the people who needed it.

Vocabulary, speech and development gaps appear before a child sets foot in reception, and once embedded they shape outcomes through school, work and health.

Immersive visit to the RNLI Lifeboat College, exploring operational readiness, volunteer training, and the challenges facing coastal rescue.

Adolescence has become measurably harder. Attendance has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, mental-health referrals are at record highs, and academic pressures now compete with smartphone use.