This week we won the Uni of Birmingham impact prize for commerce the economy and productivity. We'll done to an excellent team! City-REDI

Thought provoking thread for those interested in #localgovernment

Thanks for all the interest in The University of Birmingham Colour Palette. First batch of prints are in their tubes for collection this weekend 🧡

Communities don't care about siloes, they care about outcomes.

Place-based budgets would drive integration around their priorities, not Whitehall's.

Our report 👉 newlocal.org.uk/publications/r…

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Birmingham City Council have opened the consultation on the fate of the Library Service today, until 17th July. Really important that people respond with their views. Once our community libraries are lost, they’re lost for good. #savebirmingham
Survey: birminghambeheard.org.uk/adults-communi…

Knowledge Exchange Unit at UK Parliament Transforming Evidence Sarah Chaytor Wales Centre for Public Policy Annette Boaz Kathryn Oliver Centre on Constitutional Change Professor Paul Cairney Andy Westwood Rebecca Riley POST (UK Parliament) Economic and Social Research Council UK Research and Innovation Research England Stephen Meek Civic University Network National Civic Impact Accelerator CRESR SHU SPERI UK in a Changing Europe Institute for Government

MetroPolis Policy@Manchester Higher Education Policy Institute The Policy Institute Bennett Institute for Public Policy CSaP - The Centre for Science and Policy Heseltine Institute Insights North East City-REDI WMREDI @PolicyLeeds Leeds Social Sciences Institute The York Policy Engine UCL Policy Lab PolicyBristol Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement Public Policy & Administration Specialist Group Public Policy|Southampton (PPS) Queen Mary Global Policy Institute Policy@Exeter Brunel Public Policy Policy@NewcastleUni

What are the key drivers and trends of regional development for the Global-North? Our regional report covers the economic, demographic and ESG aspects of each region and provides you with data and analysis. #WorldEconomics #Regions #Report worldeconomics.com/Regions/Global…

The Local Policy Innovation Partnership: A Reflection on the Launch Event

Rebecca Riley looks back at the launch of the LPIP in London and provides a summary of the emerging themes from the post-event sessions and details on the 4 new partnerships.

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The share of children living in absolute poverty in the UK has risen by its highest rate for 30 years, official data shows ft.com/content/dd1807…

Why is hardship/destitution/hunger rising in the UK?

Mostly, because benefits for unemployed people/families are too low to even cover basic essentials: very good new report from Work & Pensions Committee

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse…

Exciting feedback on the Local Policy Innovation Partnership launch event from City-REDI by Rebecca Riley

'investment in evidence-based policy locally has been eroded as austerity has eaten into the capacity of places'

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The Local Policy Innovation Partnership: A Reflection on the Launch Event

Rebecca Riley looks back at the launch of the LPIP in London and provides a summary of the emerging themes from the post-event sessions and details on the 4 new partnerships.

shorturl.at/ekzEX

The Local Policy Innovation Partnership: a Reflection on the Launch Event

Rebecca Riley looks back at the launch of the LPIP in London and provides a summary of the emerging themes from the post-event sessions and details on the 4 new partnerships.

shorturl.at/ekzEX

Really good to see INLOGOV ‘s Alice Moore writing about “the UK’s destructive love affair with outsourcing”, including the Post Office Horizon scandal in this issue.

'The UK has experienced the largest increase in relative child poverty between 2014 & 2021 of any advanced economy, according to estimates by Unicef. At the same time, 3.3mn children in the UK still live in “absolute” poverty.' Peter Foster & Amy Borrett ft.com/content/55072b…

📑 New CAPE report: 'Building a National Agenda for Regional Academic-Policy Engagement'

Read for insight into emerging models of regional academic-policy engagement, challenges, and a call to develop a shared regional agenda

In full: bit.ly/national-agend…

📢Our new report shares lessons for the proposed community wealth fund announced by the government to 'give local residents in some of the more deprived areas of the country the power to improve where they live and invest in what’s important to them'

localtrust.org.uk/insights/resea…

Exciting times for University of Stirling research!