The new Duties and Powers Portal is a big step towards making local government responsibilities clearer and easier to navigate.
Hannah Brown, Transformation Project Manager at the Improvement Service, introduces the portal here 👇
https://t.co/ZsZUbmaRzt
Sharon Currie @P_H_S_Official outlines how health and economy are inextricably linked and how a Community Wealth Building approach is needed to address health inequality
@improvserv Community Wealth Building event
Cllr Matthew Brown @prestoncouncil sets out the Preston approach to a democratic economy based on common sense alternatives. Fundamental systemic change is needed to tackle deep-seated inequalities!
@improvserv Community Wealth Building event
The Scottish Local Authorities Economic Development Network has looked at 10 years of economic development trends in Scotland. Almost 80,000 new businesses, increased employment rates, and substantial external funding leveraged.
https://t.co/ldvSBRqEFJ
It really didn’t take long for the Tories to go from cheering and clapping essential workers, to threats of sacking them when they ask for fairer pay. Then again, clapping costs nothing and they like cutting costs (for anyone they’re not close chums with).
Look I'm not being funny (ever) but when I turned 18 we were in a recession and every 5 years they announce another one so I just gotta ask when did the one before the current one end? Because I just spent £15 in the co op and frankly it's not on
It’s all there in Britannia Unchained, co-authored by Liz Truss and Kwarteng: the pound can collapse, borrowing and mortgages can soar, pensioners can freeze, kids can go hungry, as long as the economy is ripe for venture capitalists freed from regulation and, ideally, tax.
Question I'd like all potential Conservative leaders to answer (RT if agree)
The energy price cap's predicted to rise 64% in Oct taking a typical bill to £3,244/yr; & rise again in Jan to £500/yr more than when May's help package was announced. What'll u do to avoid this & when?
Every so often I think about ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ and its contribution to the situation we’re in today. A costly scheme, particularly for public health, designed to get us spending while hospitality faced uncertainty around the furlough extension. What a terrible policy.
Is it just me, or does it look like Boris is standing next to a really shit wax model of himself in this photograph? Or vice-versa. Could go either way, to be honest.
@SimonFParker There is no 'over'! We are in rollercoaster loop of crises including climate and future pandemics. We really must stop thinking that this pandemic is some linear process. With some beginning, middle and end. There is no after fact 'hard look'. We are in it. We make change now
Economists and #econdev colleagues who I deeply respect, seem to be slow in picking up on the probability that economy is radically changed forever. There will be no #BuildBackBetter unless we question fossil based growth and reject economy built on short/term shareholder value