Good Local Economics

New data maps the reality of complex need

At the launch of the Lankelly Chase report Hard Edges: Mapping severe and multiple disadvantage, there was a strange mix of emotions. Initially I was intrigued. As someone who has been working on the rehabilitation of offenders since 2006, first in the Cabinet Office and then as chief executive of Kent Probation, we had long awaited data beyond that available from the 2002 social exclusion unit which, while excellent at the time, only viewed needs through the prism of offending.

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Preston: Building a new local economics

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Making the criminal justice system work

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‘Don’t let us down’: A new approach to youth employability

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Gagging of charities is like ‘totalitarian regime’

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Message to public sector: think of the consequences of cuts

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What’s most important? It isn’t local – it’s small

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It’s time for civic capitalism

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Bristol: A city ripe for systems change?

‘One of the biggest challenges facing cities today is that no single organisation has complete control over the solutions to increase our resilience to the broad range of challenges we face’