Public services growth, development and reform
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🤝 South London’s growth is all about collaboration.
As Andrew Travers, CEO of @LBRUT, highlights in our latest blog, it’s not about competition between boroughs, but about building a shared future. 🧱
Read the full blog here 👇
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New @instituteforgov report out today from me and @RMCMcKee looks at the govt's proposed Local Growth Plans that each mayor has been tasked with developing
TL;DR: a promising innovation, but govt needs to get their purpose and the sequencing right instituteforgovernment.org.u… 1/10
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.@ATravers60 tells us @UKLabour 'made a big mistake in ruling out #localgov finance reform' - buff.ly/3A3Z6xb
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Interim chief at @SouthamptonCC, @ATravers60, says trying to cut #localgov finances further would be counterproductive for a government attempting to drive growth and stabilise public services
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Exciting news! The Central Station Interchange in Southampton is now open! Read the story here: soton.cc/3SomaNk
ALT Aerial view of the new Southampton Central Station Interchange
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There are 112 cities in the G7 bigger than Nottingham - but of the bottom 20 for productivity, 7 are British.
We can catch up with the rest of the G7, and become richer than Germany, but only if we fix this problem.
NEW REPORT | Climbing the summit: UK vs G7 cities ⛰️
This latest report explores the gap between British cities and their peers in the G7.
The UK an outlier in the G7 because its ‘second cities’ lag well behind their peers.
Read the full report 👇
loom.ly/DP0mi1s
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We march on!
SAINTS are BACK 🆙
ALT A graphic celebrating our promotion, with text in the middle in white reading ‘Winners - The Saints are back’. Surrounding the text is a picture of every Saints first team player in action in our red and white home kit. Many are celebrating a goal, with Russell Martin pictured at the top with his arms held in the air. In the background, Wembley Stadium is visible along with a red and white checked flag and a flag which reads ‘We March On’.
Andrew Travers retweeted
The slow NHS-ification of the state is really quite striking
As @wesstreeting recently said (based on Ben's and my work on the NHS workforce plan)
"I like Amanda Pritchard (NHS chief executive) very much, but we’re in danger of making her Louis the 14th – ‘l’etat, c’est moi."
Andrew Travers retweeted
@atravers60 presenting reflections on unleashing the full potential of our cities. Let’s use the power or our assets to create value for communities and cities across the UK.
#UrbanFutures
@ICClimited @corecities @theRSAorg
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Making sense of the local council financial crisis across England: Andy Pike, from the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University, assesses the causes of a broken local authority finance system and presents a framework for… dlvr.it/SwZBDC
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All the focus on HS2 is on what happens next rather than the last 10 years. Whatever decision is made there are serious questions about the competence of the British state and successive administrations that a 330 mile high-speed train line has proven (apparently) impossible.
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I have built a new @TheIFS online tool that allows you to examine - for the first time - how much funding each area in England received for key public services (inc. NHS & local govt.) and how that compares to estimated spending needs – do check it out!
ifs.org.uk/calculators/how-m…
📊 We have produced a new online tool, funded by @HealthFdn, that allows you to explore the funding and need for public services across England⬇️
ifs.org.uk/calculators/how-m…
Andrew Travers retweeted
Here’s the latest devo map from @lgcplus
Look at the absolute chaos there - and the map does not even include the myriad of local governance bodies that operate below and across the CA level 🤯
The ungovernable governance of devolution…
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Central to the UK Urban Futures Commission is a belief that unlocking cities' potential requires us to think of the economy, society, and the environment as nested, intertwined systems.
In this blog I explain how this nested systems approach is shaping our thinking 👇
Introducing our new blog series where we will highlight the work of the UK Urban Futures Commission.
Read how the Commission's systemic approach provides insights that can help unlock the potential of the UK’s cities. 🏙️ bit.ly/3oPpplG #CommunityAction #Environment
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Cities are in crisis and councils are struggling so @atravers60 believes we need a new blueprint for local government.
Read about #UKUrbanFutures led by @TheRSA with @ICClimited @corecities in Andrew's blog post for Future of London buff.ly/3NQ8LMN
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Going to #ukreiff ? This is an absolute must! Some of the UK's best place leaders including @Georgia_Gould @SusaninLangside @Cadman1Deborah and Pam Smith from @NewcastleCC plus our director Stephen Jones on unlocking investment in our cities. @ICClimited
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“The signing of this deal marks a new era for English devolution,” says @AndyBurnhamGM. But what does the Trailblazer agreement with the government really mean? I tried to understand that for this weekend's @ManchesterMill.
manchestermill.co.uk/p/how-h…
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The Department for Work and Pensions' stance on devolution underlines what we already know: until tackling regional inequalities is taken seriously across Whitehall, devolution will be driven by incrementalism. This snippet in @ManchesterMill is worth a read:
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If you thought the last 10 years of devolution deals was about devolution of power and funding - WRONG.
Only now are we actually getting to stage of accountability & decision-making actually being relocated from Whitehall to mayoral combined authorities. thetimes.co.uk/article/budge…
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.@Georgia_Gould setting out 3 pillars that could unlock the city we have the potential to become. Pillar 1: Democratic renewal through a variety of mechanisms to hand power back to our communities, including citizens assemblies. (1/3)