Powering Places: How the industrial strategy can deliver nationwide renewal Join this event on 29 Sept with @futuregovforum.bsky.social & Equinix at Labour Party Conference to hear from @mayorhelengodwin.bsky.social @annabel-smith.bsky.social Alex Bevan & James Tyler on growth delivery in the UK 👇

Last chance to apply! @growthandreform.bsky.social's two new openings close for applications on Monday - if you are looking for your first or next step into a think tank then look no further and apply: Senior Researcher: bit.ly/4m0YLxJ Operations Manager: bit.ly/4nbKTS8

🚨A few days left to apply! We are currently recruiting for an Operations Manager and a Senior Researcher to join our small and dynamic team. 🔗Learn more about the roles and apply: growthandreform.org/about-us/our...

🚨Job opportunity: Senior Researcher We are recruiting for a senior researcher to manage our research programme in support of inclusive growth, impactful devolution and public service reform policy 📄Learn more about the job and apply: growthandreform.org/about-us/job...

In July, the GRN convened leaders from local and central government, the NHS, and VCSE sector for a roundtable hosted by GMCA The discussion focused on the scale of opportunity and challenges of marrying preventative strategies with delivery in places. Read more👇 growthandreform.org/ign-insights...

July was a historic month for devolution and the mission to reshape the state, moving power closer to local communities. @annabel-smith.bsky.social, Director of the Growth and Reform Network, sets out how to effectively embed place-led collaboration 🔗Read more: growthandreform.org/ign-insights...

🚨We are #hiring! We are recruiting for an Operations Manager to oversee daily operations for our small and dynamic team, ensuring efficiency and productivity. 📍Flexible location (London base) 🗓️Deadline: 7th September Find out more and apply 🔗 growthandreform.org/about-us/job...

We are #hiring! We are recruiting for a Senior Researcher to manage our research programme in support of inclusive growth, impactful devolution and public service reform policy. 📍Flexible location (London base) 🗓️Deadline: 7th September Find out more and apply 🔗 growthandreform.org/about-us/job...

Councils across England could unlock £276 billion of untapped economic potential with support from the government to break down place-specific barriers to growth. That’s more than a 10th of national output. Read more about new analysis revealed today: www.local.gov.uk/about/news/h...

What was great about today's CSR? 🏠investment in social infrastructure - £39bn for affordable homes 🕰️longer term settlements - 10 yr capital investment fund for some city regions 🧒prevention focus - early intervention in childrens social care 📗reflective government - green book review (1/2)

📢 We're #hiring! Join the Growth and Reform Network as our new Communications & Engagement Officer. Help shape inclusive economic growth and public service reform across the UK. 📍 Flexible location (London base) 💼 £29–34k, FT, Perm 📅 Apply by 3rd June 🔗 www.progressive-policy.net/about-us/car...

Message for UK mayors building new institutions and relationships with councils and citizens (from Prof Jorrit de Jong speaking at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk ): 1. See the opportunity in new institutions- structure to follow strategy 2. Build trust by telling stories of self us and now

ICYMI: @resfoundation.bsky.social promoting investment in social infra at SR25 esp. housing and health Exciting to see @centrepropolicy.bsky.social arguments cutting through - growth must be based on realising the potential of more people and places www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

How should the government get to where it needs to on health? A new blog by @charlotteaugst.bsky.social/ considers how health policy can be better delivered as a meeting of national & local health leaders in Leeds today, discusses the health neighbourhood agenda ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/futurego...

📣Six weeks’ paternity leave at 90% of average earnings could deliver a net economic gain of £2.68bn per year @tanyasingh99.bsky.socials fabulous economic analysis with @jrf-uk.bsky.social featured in @financialtimes.com yesterday and in a new blog on the CPP site today 👏 www.ft.com/content/5c4a...

Britain’s paternity leave offer is meagre: two weeks, poorly paid, and inaccessible to many. We teamed up with @jrf-uk.bsky.social to ask what a better paternity leave system could deliver for Britain. The result? A boost to growth while supporting families. Read more at: bit.ly/44LEiaW

🚨 Britain’s paternity leave system is failing families - and the economy. New analysis from The Centre for Progressive Policy and @jrf-uk.bsky.social shows that offering 6 weeks of paternity leave at 90% pay could deliver a £2.68bn net economic boost each year👇 🧵1/3

NEW analysis from @jrf-uk.bsky.social & @centrepropolicy.bsky.social shows how improving paternity leave can boost UK growth Data from countries with more generous leave shows it tackles gender norms & helps women into work, with an economy-wide benefit of £2.8bn www.ft.com/content/5c4a...

With the economic background becoming increasingly challenging, it is time to rethink outdated assumptions. @tanyasingh99.bsky.social identifies three growth myths that have previously constrained economic policy making - and will continue to do so if they are not left behind👇 bit.ly/3FP4cAt

There is clearly an imperative to grip the ballooning welfare bill and rising economic inactivity due to ill health. The challenge is that the interventions that will tackle the root causes - preventative public health, employment support, joined up training and pathways - are stretched further.

Nowhere are the UK's productivity challenges more evident than in the sectors that keep our towns and cities running and employ millions locally – retail, social care, hospitality and transport🚆🛒 🧵1/3

📢CPP's Director of Research and Analysis, @rosiefogden.bsky.social, responds to today's Spring Statement👇

Personal news update: This week is my last at the @centrepropolicy.bsky.social after 6 and a half brilliant years. There have been too many highlights for my highly limited Bluesky abilities so have put out an extended post on my time and next steps here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📣OUT NOW – Impactful Devolution 02: Local govt for the digital era Last week the PM set out plans for digital change across Whitehall. Our new report with @publicdigital.bsky.social sets out how digital can drive reform in local govt. Read it here ⬇️ www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/resource/imp...

❗In case you missed it: @tanyasingh99.bsky.social looks to the foundational economy to revive UK productivity. We need to re-frame the debate and realise the potential of our local players to address place-based challenges. 🖇️ Read the blog at: bit.ly/41AYoS9

Prompted by the government's recent Plan for Neighbourhoods and @iconeighbours.bsky.social interim report, I wrote a short piece reflecting on the challenges people face in my neighbourhood and how policy can respond.

🏘️How can one of London’s wealthiest boroughs contain neighborhoods that are among the most deprived in England? In our latest blog @bjafranklin.bsky.social sets out his experience of living in a high deprivation area in Bromley👇 inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/ign-insights...

A timely reminder from @tanyasingh99.bsky.social that with local growth plans and national industrial strategy being finalised, the everyday economy shouldn't be discounted as separate to efforts to revive UK productivity.

Quick thread on today's commitment to £1.5bn for neighbourhood renewal channeling John Prescott's New Deal for Communities of the 2000s. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nice piece from my colleague @tanyasingh99.bsky.social . New shiny sectors are important, but can't forget about lower paid sectors too in understanding our productivity malaise and spatial inequalities.

🚨The underperformance of the UK's foundational sectors costs the economy at least £105 billion. Our latest blog from @tanyasingh99.bsky.social asks how policymakers can solve the productivity puzzle in the foundational economy👇 inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/ign-insights...

🚨 Extending statutory paternity leave by six weeks, with 90% pay, could generate £2.6 billion in economic gains. CPP is proud to have supported this important work with @jrf-uk.bsky.social . Watch @abbyabhaya.bsky.social discuss the economic case for paternity leave at the WEC.

In 2023, the total fertility rate for England & Wales fell to 1.44 births per woman, the lowest level in over 80 years of records. But how did we get here? @centrepropolicy.bsky.social @tanyasingh99.bsky.social explores the role of austerity and the financial crisis...

🚨 The UK's birthrate freefall: How did we get here, and how do we escape? In a new essay collection from @smfthinktank.bsky.social, CPP's @tanyasingh99.bsky.social unpacks the UK's fertility puzzle. Read the essay to uncover how examples from around the world can help policymakers turn the tide👇

"You can't grow the economy if parents have to choose between work and their children." Great to hear this from the PM today. CPP is pleased to have supported work with @jrf-uk.bsky.social spotlighting the economic benefits of expanding statutory paternity leave. More on this soon.

Growth alone won't tackle poverty but poverty reduction measures generate growth - like a paternity pay system which helps mums care less and work more. With @centrepropolicy.bsky.social we've estimated the growth impacts could be big. Government should be acting now.

The UK has the worst paternity leave offer in Europe. Glad that Luke Charters MP is raising this issue in the Commons today. We found increasing statutory paternity leave to a better paid 6 weeks offer could boost the UK Economy by over £2bn in the near term. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

📢 New blog: Given the current fiscal constraints, Annabel Smith argues that it is through creativity and collaboration that the government will advance its missions in 2025. 🔗Read it at: inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/ign-insights...

A new report from @centreforcities.bsky.social focuses on the export economy as vital to improving productivity in urban centres. Whilst this is correct, previous CPP research with @localtrust.bsky.social has identified additional crucial factors that will unlock growth beyond urban centres👇 (1/2)

Nice piece summarising recent theories of economic growth adopted by different chancellors and current apparent lack of coherence. But is there a compelling grand theory of everything, or is less dogmatic but evidence based pragmatism the sensible path forward?

Hello BlueSky! The Inclusive Growth Network works with places across the UK to deliver Inclusive Growth in practice. Find out more about us, our members, and what we do here👉https://inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/ 🦋Follow us to stay up to date as we evolve and scale up our activity across the UK.

📢Is the Treasury finally embracing regional voices? New article from @politicshome.bsky.social contains key insights from CPP's Interim Chief Executive @bjafranklin.bsky.social on the shift to "mature conversations about what local places can do." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

📢Is the Treasury finally embracing regional voices? New article from @politicshome.bsky.social contains key insights from CPP's Interim Chief Executive @bjafranklin.bsky.social on the shift to "mature conversations about what local places can do." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

📢 New CPP blog: Economic growth is essential, but resilience is key to navigating a decade of national renewal. Tanya Singh outlines 3 principles for building a stronger, more adaptable economy. Read more at: www.progressive-policy.net/publications...

Great piece from Annabel Smith on yesterday's devo White Paper. A pragmatic first step in providing additional powers, and joined up budgets, but the proof will be in how we can deliver in every community across the country.

📢NEW CPP blog: Director of Place and Practice, Annabel Smith sets out CPP's response to the Devolution White Paper as a pragmatic first step in ending centralisation by default👇 www.progressive-policy.net/publications...

If you've not read it yet, this is a nice piece from my colleague Tanya about delivering successful missions. It was published on the eve of the Prime Minister's speech. Very pertinent as govt. rightly seeks to drive forward a public service reform agenda to deliver the missions.

As Starmer sets out his 'plan for change', how can his government keep its mission-led growth on track? New @centrepropolicy.bsky.social blog from my colleague Tanya Singh: www.progressive-policy.net/publications...