Localis’s report ‘Level Measures – a modern agenda for public service integration’ sought to ask how well-equipped England’s local authorities are to navigate the twin tasks of reformed local service provision and successful placemaking in the short and medium-term. Among the seven principles a modern agenda for public service integration, we called for: Reliable, consistent and long-term […]
Aims & objectives of policy webinar This webinar was the second event in Localis’ campaign for the LRA. Resilience to the impacts of climate change is a responsibility shared across multiple sectors, governance geographies and organisational actors. As part of the research, we have been examining how resilience is defined across the policy and regulative […]
Image credit: https://ledlightstation.com/ We are using this year’s drinks reception to launch Localis’s major new report “Level Measures – a modern agenda for public service integration”. This study, sponsored by Capita, faces head on the myriad capacity challenges facing local government in the ongoing delivery of local public services that are not simply to be maintained […]
Background and Context: The dynamic of devolution and centre of gravity for local public service reform is clearly moving through the prism of trailblazing combined authorities. In the most recent budget, Combined Authority pioneers Greater Manchester and West Midlands were effectively treated as de facto government offices for the regions. Indeed, a stated intention of […]
Background and context: Between 1990 to 2018 the UK reduced emissions by more than 40 percent. This vital progress in the transition has largely been achieved through the decarbonisation of the power sector. However, as the Climate Change Committee have pointed out ‘over half of emissions reduction needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget involves […]
Aims & objectives of webinar Since its launch in 2019, Britain’s Leading Edge has been a collaboration and advocacy network for predominantly rural upper tier local authority regions without the economic pull of a major city. Britain’s Leading Edge wants to work with partners to improve the quality of life for the 6 million people […]
Hybrid Launch of HFI/Localis guide to a fresh way councils and developers can work together to provide homes to suit needs and pockets of those on waiting lists BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Few of the ‘new affordable’ homes being created today can be afforded by those 1.2 million households on council waiting lists. Most of those […]
A Localis Webinar – Wednesday 8 March 2023 from 11:00 to 12:00 Aims & objectives of webinar This webinar was the first event in Localis’ year long campaign for a Local Resilience Act. It explored the current state and role of climate resilience and mitigation in recently adopted local plans as well as the wider […]
This year marks the twenty first anniversary of Localis as an independent think tank dedicated to issues related to politics, public service reform and localism. Our drinks reception will be a timely opportunity to mark our coming of age and extend gratitude to our supporters, old and new, from all parts of the country who […]
Localis’s project on local clean growth seeks to investigate what places can do, and what they need to be able to do, to unlock routes to clean growth in their area. Our report, aimed at local growth practitioners, policy makers and industry partners maps and explains what good clean growth should look like in the […]