In her 29 January speech outlining the Government’s ‘Plan for Growth’, chancellor Rachel Reeves argued our cities will require focus on the two key areas of infrastructure and investment if they are to realise their potential and promise, with central government bringing in a raft of institutional and policy reforms to help support the financing of […]
In October 2024 Localis launched New Values: Public Contracts for Social Prosperity with Norse Group. It is an in depth look into how local authorities can work towards strategic, locally beneficial procurement by adopting a blended approach and using hybrid models to deliver gains in efficiency, productivity and social value. A year later much has changed in […]
Download essay Other Ideas is a new series of essays published by Localis, featuring perspectives from our team, our research fellows and the wider local government family. Ever since the radical restructuring of public finances that heralded the beginning of austerity policy in 2010, successive governments have promised to balance their policy agendas with a […]
Download essay Other Ideas is a new series of essays published by Localis, featuring perspectives from our team, our research fellows and the wider local government family. The English Devolution white paper, published in December 2024, set in motion a chain of events raising a series of fundamental questions about the arguments underpinning it. In […]
New Stable Expanding and reforming the role of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in driving forward housing investment Solving the housing crisis, a stated but unrealised goal of successive recent governments, is both a generational challenge for policy and a hugely significant potential investment in place. That a crisis exists is well-rehearsed, but its […]
Context Solving the puzzle of worklessness and its connection to productivity is an increasingly challenging task in cities and towns across the country, at a time where the state’s ability to intervene to raise skill levels and improve labour market access is severely limited. The impending 2025 Comprehensive Spending Review will have little option but […]