IPPR North worked with the North East Child Poverty Commission (NECPC) to publish Child Poverty and Devolution in North East England in September 2020.
The report called on local, regional...
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Devolution & local leadership
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This years State of the North report draws from international experience to show how the UK's regional inequality is not inevitable.
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Progressive levelling up
IPPR North
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...
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Devolution & local leadership
IPPR North
This paper critically assesses the unfinished governance processes of levelling up, challenging the traditional orthodoxy of territorial government in the UK.
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Progressive levelling up
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Ahead of the Scottish government budget, we analyse options for raising additional revenue to protect public services for people in Scotland
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IPPR Scotland
“ 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...
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Progressive levelling up
IPPR North
Earlier this month, on Yorkshire Day 2022, a devolution deal for York and North Yorkshire was signed by the leaders of the City of York and North Yorkshire councils and the secretary of state for...
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June 23rd marks eight years since the Northern Powerhouse agenda was launched. On the same date this year voters will go to the polls in a by-election in Wakefield. This blog reflects on the lessons...
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This year’s State of the North report highlights the gap between promises and reality on levelling up.
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Metro mayors
IPPR North
The UK is one of the most regionally divided countries in the developed world . Over-centralisation, ingrained in a culture that assumes that ‘Whitehall knows best’, is the root cause of this ....
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