In the developed world’s most centralised nation, calls for devolution and decentralisation have long gone without a meaningful answer from the heart of government. Yet in the aftermath of a pandemic which brought people closer to their local communities than many had been in generations and in the face of an economy which is increasingly unable to provide prosperity across the country, advocation of bringing money and power closer to communities is set to grow louder still.
This workstream aims to bring out the policy requirements for a better dispersed and more genuinely democratic England, aiming to chart the course to true community empowerment, bringing the levers of meaningful power within reach of neighbourhood-level organisations across the country.
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The question of how adult social care funding is put on a sustainable footing helped to define the 2017 General Election. Along with the NHS, it has become an issue totemic of wider choices around public spending and their impact on local services. Yet the long shadow of social care funding in the public and […]