Good Local Economics

Getting the measure of social value

Julian Cox, Matt Bowen and Oliver Kempton reveal how a new model combining existing methodologies could make it easier for organisations to measure social value

In the April edition of New Start, there was a focus on the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 and how this could be put into practice. In Greater Manchester, partners have been using cost-benefit analysis to shape how they think about public services and how they might be restructured to save costs and improve outcomes.

Communities Good Local Economics

Welfare reform: taking benefits from addicts

Communities Good Local Economics

Beecroft report: cutting red tape or delivering more red herrings?

Communities Good Local Economics

Celebrating Big Local ‘difference’

Communities Good Local Economics

Reforms spell end of the road for community law centres

Communities Good Local Economics Housing Local Government

Musical beds

Communities Good Local Economics

A path back to work

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Indy Johar: reinventing the corner shop

Communities Finance Good Local Economics Regeneration

A new framework for local involvement

In their new book, Rethinking Community Practice, Gabriel Chanan and Colin Miller set out a powerful new approach to bringing people and public services together.

We believe there can be major improvements to people’s lives, even under conditions of austerity, through a new framework to link up and boost the wide but fragmented community involvement legacy of the past twenty years.