Localis

By Martin Ford | 15 March 2022

Has the Levelling Up White Paper failed to create the shared ambition across tiers of local gover...

The White Paper that goes wrong

By Joe Fyans | 15 March 2022

Launching a new levelling up essay collection, head of research at Localis Joe Fyans says bypassi...

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE

Government is failing to set out councils' role in delivering net zero, say MPs

By Ann McGauran | 02 March 2022

MPs have hit out at the Government’s ‘apparent lack of urgency’ in clarifying how it will work wi...

ENERGY

Net zero culture war

By Jonathan Werran | 02 March 2022

A localist and levelling up aligned approach to decarbonisation is all that stands between us and...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils are more than a crisis management tool

By Joe Fyans | 09 February 2022

A more collaborative approach between central and local government on the distribution of the Add...

DEVOLUTION

Still no fiscal fix

By Heather Jameson | 09 February 2022

What is missing from the Levelling Up White Paper, can its targets can be met and how does the Go...

WHITEHALL

New accountability body 'stops short' of Audit Commission reinvention

By Heather Jameson | 08 February 2022

Plans for a body to oversee the accountability of local government stop just short of re-inventin...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Government commits to future of LEPs

By Martin Ford | 03 February 2022

Local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are to be integrated into devolution deals as part of the Le...

DEVOLUTION

Throwing off the manacles

By Jonathan Werran | 26 January 2022

Jonathan Werran asks what would an unmasked sense of truly local empowerment look and feel like –...

WHITEHALL

Levelling up transparency call amid funding row

By Dan Peters | 25 January 2022

Whitehall officials were this week facing renewed pressure over how the Levelling Up Fund was dol...

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