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Better Places National Awards – spreading skills and knowledge

We’re looking for innovative initiatives that are both economically and socially inclusive – exemplars that ...

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Better Places National Awards 2012

**UPDATE: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED** The Better Places National Awards will celebrate initiatives that go that extra mile, ...

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How to dismantle the welfare state

If the commitment to the welfare state, as we currently understand it, is destroyed then ...

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Loneliness and isolation: stark meaning in so little words

Efficiency without love creates the conditions for loneliness and isolation. This a form of robbery ...

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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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A revolutionary challenge in Scotland

Too many of our public services are still driven by internal priorities. That must change. ...

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It’s time economic development practitioners took the lead

Let's listen and learn from ED practitioners who are on the front lines. Refrain from ...

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Just build some bloody council houses!

A government that combines drastic benefit cuts and reducing public housing stock with a massive ...

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The value of joined up working

Most of the really challenging issues require systemic change to occur, they do not fall ...

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Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening…

No matter how many acronyms we come up with or partnerships we invent, economic development ...