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Good with local services?

With public services being increasingly marketised, a group of local authorities is looking to the co-op model to ensure the interests of local people are protected. Clare Goff reports

At the inaugural Co-operative Councils conference in mid-September the biggest cheer of the day came when Rochdale Council leader Colin Lambert read out clause IV in response to earlier claims made by the leader of Manchester’s Council, Richard Leese, that co-operatives were not essentially socialist.

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Highly commended

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Planning for people or for profit?

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Localising the challenge

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Why we should worry about electoral reform

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The ageing north needs a vision

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The crisis in local economic development

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Better connected

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Budget 2012: steady as we go nowhere for poorest places

‘Now’t round here. This town is going down the tubes’. So said an elderly participant in a focus group I conducted this week. We weren’t talking about granny tax or even the Budget, but exploring the future of places and neighbourhoods in a northern town. The Budget undoubtedly has some good things for the already winning local places and economies, but scant help to those which are losing. It’s a Budget which will accelerate regional and local economic division.