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Good Local Economics

Voluntary and community sector 2012: Rolling with the punches

Far too often groups and organisations are busy dealing with and reeling from the latest ...

Communities Good Local Economics Regeneration

The emperor’s discarded clothes – and the work programme

Government needs a rethink, a u-turn that I don’t expect given how attached they are ...

Communities

Halt the redistribution of health

This change in spending is unlikely to see the government move forward with its aim ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

The government needs a strategy for growth – why?

I believe the lack of a ‘why?’ and the narrative is a major problem in ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

European funding and a distinct lack of localism  

Money brought into the country due to deprivation in areas such as the north west ...

Communities Good Local Economics

A view on the Work Programme

My favourite in the Work Programme is the contradiction with the personalisation and choice agenda. ...

Communities Good Local Economics

We need the Future Jobs Fund back

Our young people need jobs, not an expensive two week residential programme like the National ...

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Doomed to success

My view is that however flawed you may perceive Leps to be, they are ‘doomed ...

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We need a bit of a scrap

In a grown up world – even, dare I say it, a ‘big society’ we ...

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Are administrative geographies important?

Sometimes the boundaries seem meaningless, arbitrary and nonsensical. But I just wonder how important they ...