Communities

Finding a way to bounce back

The prosperity gap between places is once again being exposed as areas attempt to recover from recession and cutbacks. But economic growth isn’t the only option, says Sarah Longlands

Over the last year, CLES has been working with 15 local authorities across the UK, helping them to understand the resilience of their areas and to test a new model that we have developed.

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Prosperous outlook

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Beware false dawns in economic policy’s winter

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A win-win agreement

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Co-ops: don’t be too co-operative about your name

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Rethinking business rates

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Will Ed correct David’s mistake on poor neighbourhoods?

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Tackling an age-old problem

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The vision for Big Society Bank puts profit above compassion

When Big Society tsar Lord Wei said volunteering was incompatible with having a life it might have been thought the concept was sunk. When Liverpool council withdrew from being a Big Society vanguard stating cuts to public services undermine local authorities’ ability to support volunteering, you might think the government would consign the idea to its ever-growing u-turn pile. Instead it got relaunched with its very own bank.