Good Local Economics
I’m sometimes encouraged to stop talking about the skills crisis facing UK recovery. People don’t seem to like the term ‘crisis’ or the sense it gives that we’re on a downward spiral that will be difficult to get off. But the crisis is real, and we should be worried about trying to make sure that the current mêlée of proposals on devolution helps, rather than hinders, this process.
Right across the public sector, senior executives and officials are being forced to make cuts to their expenditure. Services are being stopped, others severely re-modelled, some rationed and others re-designed. Inevitably, people and communities – often the most disadvantaged – are being adversely hit by these cuts and changes. Long term and wholesale damage is being inflicted on communities, individuals and on society itself.
