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Why public servants and policy wonks need to disrupt to deliver on the promise of total place

Rosie Fogden 5 Dec 2025

Rosie Fogden reflects on rising support for local solutions and the need to properly resource them.

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A new place toolkit: embedding health outcomes into economic development

Elizabeth Hopkins

Elizabeth Hopkins 12 Nov 2025

Elizabeth Hopkins on using economic development as a tool to improve health and prosperity.

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Falling through the gaps: are disabled youth included in the government’s plan for growth?

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Kristina Stipetic 11 Nov 2025

Kristina Stipetic examines how inclusive policy can better support young disabled people into work.

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Seven Things We’ve Learned About How Economics Shapes Our Health

Tanya Singh 15 Oct 2025

Tanya Singh explores the findings of our new evidence review on health and economic development.

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The politics of shaping place

Annabel Smith 9 Oct 2025

Annabel Smith detects a shift in focus towards local leadership at the Labour Party conference.

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Empowering communities to make lasting change

Matthew Davis 9 Oct 2025

Matthew Davis looks at the UK's Pride in Place programme and asks how to achieve long-term renewal

Growth and Reform Network launches to support places across the UK

Growth and Reform Network 8 Oct 2025

The Growth and Reform Network was formally launched in an event with local and national policymakers

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Roundtable briefing: A preventative approach to public services

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Place leaders came together in Manchester to explore the prevention demonstrator approach

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From duty to delivery

Annabel Smith 19 Aug 2025

Collaboration is no longer optional – it is part of the statutory fabric.

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How (not) to do evaluation: A guide to the UK’s favorite policy ritual

Evaluation in British policymaking is often poorly understood, under-resourced, and misapplied

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Good Work sorted, or still a work-in-progress?

Rosie Fogden asks what Labour’s Employment Right Bill means for the good work agenda.

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This or That-ism? Growth myths that are holding back the economy

Tanya Singh 3 Apr 2025

Tanya Singh busts 3 dichotomous growth myths that are holding back growth.

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Transforming neighbourhoods

Ben Franklin 13 Mar 2025

Ben Franklin on the need for neighbourhood transformation in his home borough of Bromley.

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