Measuring the true value of community transport
ECT Charity explains why community transport is worth its weight in savings.
Support local industrial strategies to ‘promote a zero-carbon economy’, think tanks say
23/10/2019 Government must support local industrial strategies, with new funding and devolved powers, to promote a zero-carbon economy, according to two think tanks. |
Greater Manchester aims to be carbon-neutral by 2038
14/06/2019 Plans by Greater Manchester to become the UK’s 'leading green and digital city-region' have won backing from the Government in its new Local Industrial Strategy. |
Industrial strategy not doing enough for 'everday' sectors warn MPs
19/03/2019 The government’s industrial strategy has focused on high tech businesses but should do more to support other 'everyday' sectors, MPs say. |
Creative industries to get £20m ‘boost’
07/12/2018 The Government has announced a more than £20m boost to creative industries across England. |
Ministers to 'super charge' LEP performance
24/07/2018 Ministers have published plans to ‘super charge’ the performance and accountability of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) following a review. |
Hawthorne: Local industrial strategies could go same way as devolution
04/07/2018 Parts of the country could be left behind when Whitehall rolls out its local industrial strategies, a senior Local Government Association (LGA) figure has warned. |
Industrial strategy neglecting fortunes of ‘left-behind’ areas, think tank warns
26/03/2018 The Government’s decision to focus its industrial strategy on the most advanced areas of England risks neglecting the economic fortunes of the bulk of the country, think tank warns. |
Whitehall should invest £65m in health boards to support Industrial Strategy
28/11/2017 The Government's Industrial Strategy must recognise the importance of public health in economic growth, a group representing local government has warned. |
Industrial Strategy snubs councils
27/11/2017 Business secretary Greg Clark has snubbed councils and empowered local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) in the Government’s long-awaited Industrial Strategy. |
This issue of Local Government News explores how councils can tackle modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chains, finds out more about Cambridge's first cohousing scheme and the launch of a new project to build a shared service pattern library for local government.
This issue also contains a special focus on children's services and how councils are protecting children following local safeguarding children boards being abolished.
