Rethinking levelling up: Caring for place, empowering connectors, and redesigning our culture of governance

This paper critically assesses the unfinished governance processes of levelling up, challenging the traditional orthodoxy of territorial government in the UK. 

12/12/2022

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‘Levelling up starts with people at the bottom’ – a vision for a levelled up Stoke

Levelling up remains popular and the people think it is much needed . But the agenda is at risk of going nowhere, subsumed by new economic realities and a growing list of crises now facing the...

12/12/2022

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Community led levelling up – insights from Redcar

 “ I think it already is special we have just been left in the Stone Age .” This was the response from Helen,* a social worker who had lived in Redcar nearly all her life when she was...

13/10/2022

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Leading think tank: "Levelling up was business as usual, but that has to change”

As levelling up turns three, new analysis reveals that public spending is lower in the North than England wide despite the agenda The leading think tank for the north of England has published...

26/07/2022

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It’s time to upgrade levelling up

Why the time is right to refocus on levelling up

23/08/2022

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An alternative approach to levelling up – insights from Hastings

Reducing the UK’s stubborn regional inequality is the right thing to do both economically and politically. This was reflected in the debates of the last general election where ‘levelling up’ was...

23/08/2022

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