Central government must now place their trust in local leaders to co-ordinate place-based population health, argues Localis researcher Zayn Qureshi. As we approach tentative measures to ease our country out of the lockdown measures imposed by government on March 23rd, it is of paramount importance that any steps taken consider how coronavirus has and will […]
The lives of residents must measurably improve as a result of how councils commission and provide local public services, a report by the think-tank Localis has recommended. In a report issued today entitled ‘Brighten All Corners – maximising social value in place’ the think-tank calls for a standardised approach to evaluating social value which would […]
A group of ten Conservative MPs from the 2019 intake has today set out an ambitious blueprint for the future of housing to rethink the social and economic role of housing over the next decade. The proposals are contained in a post-Budget essay collection issued by HFI and Localis entitled “Valuing Housing, Improving Lives” and […]
Localis chief executive, Jonathan Werran, said: “This would be a most remarkable Budget even without the pressing need to address the immediate contingencies the coronavirus situation is raising. “Today’s announcement succeeds in putting unprecedentedly increased levels of capital funding flesh to fully dress the rhetorical bones of the ‘levelling-up’ agenda. “In this sense the chancellor […]
The forthcoming English Devolution White Paper will set a course of travel to excite, entertain and frustrate in possibly equal measure. There is still a tremendous amount to learn from the first two decades of the millennium and its unheralded revolution in strategic local governance – something Localis hopes to explore further in our current […]
Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran on how the Johnson government might seek to tackle as opportunities the challenges its unexpectedly broad mandate has won it.
Localis chief executive Jonathan Werran analyses what Boris Johnson’s big majority Conservative government will mean for devolution, economic growth and local government finances
Localis chief executive, Jonathan Werran, said: “It appears that we have witnessed an unprecedented and epochal national political realignment, a sea-change that holds great promise for bold devolution and economic rebalancing over the next parliament. “All eyes should be on next year’s English Devolution White Paper and the combined authority mayoral elections for a sense […]
Party election manifestos are, in the usual run of things, finely tuned hostage notes to fortune. Promissory notes whose redemption might threaten to bankrupt the political capital held by their party once in power or pamphlets whose very text erases their authors very prospects of attaining the commanding heights. Think the Liberal Democrats and tuition […]
Government must support ambitious local industrial strategies, backed by new funding and devolved powers, to help local areas play their part in moving the UK to a zero-carbon economy, says a joint study by think tanks Green Alliance and Localis. Although more than 230 English local authorities have declared climate emergencies in the past year, […]