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What do buses have to do with community resilience?
An announcement this week by the Department for Transport set out plans for a £7bn investment in national bus infrastructure. This...
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Double Whammy
A new DEMOS report, ‘Double Whammy’, seeks to map areas where personal debt could increase most in the coming years. With energy bills...
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Levelling up (continued...)
Image taken from here Like many of you, we’ve spent the past fortnight continuing to digest the Government’s Levelling Up white paper, to...
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Levelling up
The Government’s long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper came out last week (see BBC report here). It has already been subject to...
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The impact of COVID-19
A Sky News data blog, published just before Christmas, compared deprivation statistics with COVID-19 economic impact figures. Based on...
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'Levelling up' through climate action
The APPG for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods last week published a report about climate change – entitled ‘levelling up through climate...
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The meaning of city status
The tragic murder of Sir David Amess MP last week shook the country, prompting an outpouring of tributes from across the political...
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The geographies of Asylum dispersal
The heart-breaking news from Afghanistan this week means Western nations face a massive humanitarian effort to re-settle those currently...
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Regeneration projects in the east
Image taken from original article This recent BBC profile of Great Yarmouth is really interesting, describing efforts to rejuvenate the...
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The link between health inequality and resilience
A new report by the Institute of Health Inequality identifies a 6-point framework for health inequality (Executive Summary here)....
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White working-class attainment and community resilience
Image taken from original source. A recent report by the education select committee looked into attainment gaps for white working class...
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Social cohesion post-pandemic
A recent article on the LSE blog reveals striking results. It shows that areas within the government’s Integration Area programme have...
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A Game on the Brink
With the fallout from the now-defunct European Super League still fresh, Chris Clarke and Chris Fairley say football clubs are vital to...
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Rhetoric about 'unskilled' migrants feeds into dangerous stereotypes
Image taken from here It was announced this month that a fast track immigration route had been opened up by the UK, designed to make...
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Mind the Skills Gap
A new analysis by the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) emphasises the importance of skills in ‘levelling up’. Written up here in the...
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Why pub closures reduce resilience
Image taken from here. This recent study, by the LSE’s Diane Bolet, explores in detail the relationship between pub closures and support...
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Why arts, pubs and sports clubs matter so much
Image taken from here. Early noises about Rishi Sunak’s budget this week suggest positive steps in several key areas. The budget will...
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Resilient Towns: The role of place
Last month HOPE not hate Charitable Trust ran the first online session in our What Works series. Focused around preventative and...
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Building Resilience in Areas with a Far Right Footprint
With the populist radical right often honing in on areas that are experiencing rapid demographic change, how can decision-makers and...
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Christmas is the Only Time I'm Home
What happens to a community resilience when a town's young people leave? Conversations about the impact of demographic change on...
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