‘Guarantee of potential’ – A Localis LGA Conference 2025 Panel Debate
Join us at the LGA conference 2025 for a panel debate and report launch on new approaches to reducing worklessness and raising productivity within the labour market. It will hosted at the Leonardo Hotel from 15:00-16:00 on the 1st July.
The report entitled “Guarantee of potential – driving the place case for innovative local employment support” was supported by AKG UK and explores the reform of employment services through four policy prisms:
- devolution, health and skills,
- commissioning and procurement
- public service reform
- place-shaping
Policy context
The Get Britain Working and the forthcoming 2025 Comprehensive Spending Review have sought to balance the public finances with the strategic need to improve social outcomes and attain economic growth to pay for services of the future, by investing in our local economies and labour markets.
Formal responsibility for driving place prosperity rests upon statutory local growth plans – coordinated devolutionary programmes to shift areas from economic stagnation to renewal.
With this as context, Localis has undertaken research to consider how these networks of governance can be learned from by – and integrated with – new approaches to reducing worklessness and raising productivity within the labour market.
The panel for the event includes:
- Amy Harhoff, Chief Executive, East Midlands Combined Authority
- Cllr Liam Robinson, Leader, Liverpool City Council/Chair LGA City Regions Board
- Eloise Crockett, Work and Health Engagement Lead, NHS Confederation
- Ayden Simms, CEO, AKG UK
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