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Baroness Hilary Armstrong explains how work by the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods aims to help deprived neighbourhoods across England. She says politicians 'right across Government' need to help create opportunities for those who have the least. Katherine Forster

Excellent roundtable this morning at the launch of the interim report for Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods. A lot of energy around getting government to think neighbourhoods as we have called for in our report. You can read the interim report here: neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/interim…

Which parts of the country are furthest away from making a real contribution to the government's missions agenda? On all missions bar energy, "doubly disadvantaged" areas - those that are highly deprived, with low social infrastructure/social capital - are much further behind

ICON’s Interim Report sets out the 613 mission critical neighbourhoods most at risk of not meeting the government’s 5 missions for national renewal. Without targeted interventions to these areas the government will fail to meet its promise of a decade of renewal.

Delighted to be joining Rupa Huq MP and @joncruddas_1 as inaugural fellows at RuskinOxford - it’s a fantastic institution with a rich and important history, and a strong vision for the future focused on addressing issues of place-based inequality, education, skills and work through

Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social reflects on how local areas that recover quicker from crises are not those that had the big capital projects but the places that had high-levels of social infrastructure.

Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social reflects on the findings of Community, not catastrophe, a report that calls for networks of trust, mutual aid, volunteering, community support, and civil society to urgently be recognised as ‘critical national infrastructure’ in UK crisis preparedness planning 👇

We need to a new wave of neighbourhood renewal to show that democracy can deliver. We know how to do it; do we have the will? medium.com/@HopeStreetEss… #housing #regeneration #place #HopeStreetEssays #highstreets #urbanism #cities

Big day for Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods tomorrow. 👀

ICON today launches its Green Paper – twenty proposals to deliver neighbourhood renewal. You can read the full Green Paper and respond to the public consultation on our proposals here:neighbourhoodscommission.org.uk/report/icons-n…

📕Making Equal Section Three: Making Places Matter The third section of Making Equal looks at how spatial inequality impacts regional and local communities in the UK Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social, Ian Taylor,Dr Abigail Taylor PRE-ORDER: bookstore.emerald.com/making-equal-p… Ruskin Institute for Social Equity Emerald Publishing

Great The Guardian discussion of Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods work - with a very good headline that I agree with! theguardian.com/commentisfree/… David Halpern CBE Matt Leach | @mattleach.bsky.social Danielle Walker Palmour Kim McGuinness The B&FC Principal

ICYMI: Yesterday the government released details of its Dormant Assets Scheme Strategy 🎉 This has confirmed that the CWF will target doubly disadvantaged communities experiencing high levels of deprivation and low social capital (1/3)

"I am calling for a project of national renewal for our neighbourhoods, designed to work with communities, to rebuild from the ground up, and to restore hope and dignity back to our places. That must be the great mission of our Government" Sureena Brackenridge MP expressandstar.com/your-world/202…

Thanks to Luke Akehurst for raising the work of Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods today in Westminster Hall and the work of Baroness Armstrong. He is right, the data is there. We know who needs support. We need policy to focus on neighbourhoods like Stanley in North Durham.

Strong speech from Polly Billington for East Thanet on the need for coastal communities to get the support they need. Half the mission critical neighbourhoods we have identified at Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods are on the coast. We need to give places like Newington Estate we visited priority.

Detailed analysis to follow but a *big* day for Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods: £500 million secured for New Deal for Communities-style investment, targeting mission critical neighbourhoods.

Not too late to sign up for our event next week but tickets are flying out - get em now! We'll reflect on some of our early findings looking through 20 years of data on the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, reflecting on the Spending Review, and more. x.com/iconeighbours/…

Join the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods on the 19th of June in Westminster to learn more about how neighbourhoods have changed over the last 15 years. ICON will be launching a new report exploring how and why some neighbourhoods have improved over recent years, while