Good Local Economics

Systemic change doesn’t fit into flowcharts

I do love a good diagram. The blissfully clean lines of overlapping circles, adjacent squares and connecting arrows, are a reassuring bookmark for my brain, as it struggles through the messy complexities of systems change in local economies (wealth distribution, our relationship with environmental limits, where power sits, how cultures change) and tries to make sense of it all in little flow-chart labyrinths.

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New data maps the reality of complex need

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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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Devolution and decentralisation have to be fair, equitable and offer hope

Greater devolution and decentralisation to the English cities and sub-regions must inevitably be a critical element of the public policy for the next few years. This is a given.