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ECONOMIC GROWTH

'Fix the broken system'

By Sarah Longlands | 15 May 2024

Local authorities are taking the lead in trying to alleviate the climate crisis but there is a de...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Left and behind: women at work

By Sarah Longlands | 02 April 2024

Building gender equality and diversity into plans for economic growth has benefits for everyone, ...

FINANCE

Time for a fightback

By Sarah Longlands | 05 February 2024

Political parties think the general public doesn’t care about councils, which is why, electorally...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Right place and time for change

By Sarah Longlands | 20 November 2023

Despite more than a decade of austerity and no end in sight, local authorities do have the power ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Leaping to a four-day week

By Sarah Longlands | 27 September 2023

CLES is permanently adopting a four-day working week, and Sarah Longlands says there is no reason...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

A compelling vision

By Sarah Longlands | 24 July 2023

Sarah Longlands says we cannot let pragmatism dampen our belief in better times ahead and she set...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Be brave when times are tough

By Sarah Longlands | 30 May 2023

Inflation may have eased, but there are tough times ahead. Sarah Longlands urges local authoritie...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Getting healthier and wealthier

By Sarah Longlands | 04 April 2023

The potential of Integrated Care Systems to harness their economic heft and level up locally is e...

HEALTH

Investing in the basics

By Sarah Longlands | 30 January 2023

A new kind of northern politics needs a new kind of economic thinking, not the piecemeal approach...

PAY

No green shoots from the Spring Statement

By Sarah Longlands | 21 March 2022

Sarah Longlands says that Westminster may be retreating to a pre-COVID state of policy inertia on...

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