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Dialogue Debriefs: Evaluating Inclusive Growth

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Growth and Reform Network 15 Dec 2025

Our first Growth and Reform Dialogue focused on how places can measure and deliver inclusive growth.
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Why public servants and policy wonks need to disrupt to deliver on the promise of total place

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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

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Elizabeth Hopkins 12 Nov 2025

Elizabeth Hopkins on using economic development as a tool to improve health and prosperity.
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The politics of shaping place

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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

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Matthew Davis 9 Oct 2025

Matthew Davis looks at the UK's Pride in Place programme and asks how to achieve long-term renewal
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Growth and Reform Network launches to support places across the UK

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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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From duty to delivery

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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

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2 Jul 2025

Evaluation in British policymaking is often poorly understood, under-resourced, and misapplied
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This or That-ism? Growth myths that are holding back the economy

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Tanya Singh 3 Apr 2025

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

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Ben Franklin 13 Mar 2025

Ben Franklin on the need for neighbourhood transformation in his home borough of Bromley.
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Fostering inclusive growth though regeneration: Bristol Temple Quarter

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Simon Cowley 4 Mar 2025

Putting inclusive growth at the heart of a major regeneration project in Bristol Temple Quarter.
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The Productivity Blind Spot: Why UK policymakers can’t afford to ignore low-wage sectors

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Tanya Singh 3 Mar 2025

Tanya Singh sets out how the UK can crack the productivity code in it's foundational sectors.