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‘Deep hanging out’ with young people improves services

In order to improve relationships with children and young people we need to be more ...

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Q & A with Philip Colligan: Innovation in local government

Philip Colligan is executive director of Nesta’s Innovation Lab. He spoke to New Start about ...

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Neighbourhood renewal: Learning from Labour’s record

As part of a much bigger programme looking at the impacts of government policy and ...

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Six steps to tackle household debt: findings from The Netherlands

Schemes to address rising levels of household debt in the Netherlands are proving successful. What ...

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How to… rebuild the UK’s stakeholder banking sector

Britain led the world in developing mutual financial institutions and public savings banks, but now ...

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Will council banks happen?

Recent attempts by UK councils to launch banks have ended in failure. But with entry ...

Local Government

Out with rhetoric, in with honest dialogue

The failure to participate in our democratic institutions is, I believe, tied up with the ...

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Councillors in their communities: should I be bothered?

Economic development and regeneration specialists should be knocking on the CLG committee’s door and giving ...

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The wellbeing barometer

Let every local authority area develop a set of indicators that form the baseline evidence ...

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With or without an elected mayor the challenges remain the same

We have to accept the result and move on but we now need to move ...