How do we actually achieve levelling up?
Local authorities have been charged with bringing the Government’s levelling-up agenda to fruition.
Levelling Up
Closing the gaps
Levelling up requires a reinvention of the relationship between national, local and community governance.
Levelling up funding ‘should be evidence-led’
More than 100 communities have been awarded a share of £2.1 billion from the second round of the Government’s flagship Levelling Up Fund.
Time to transfer power out of Whitehall
After being delayed by months of Tory chaos, the second phase of levelling up funding has finally been announced.
The levelling-up agenda is flawed
It’s very rarely that I find myself agreeing with leading Conservatives, but I couldn’t agree more with West Midlands Mayor Andy Street in calling for the ‘begging bowl’ culture that forces areas to bid against each other for vital government funds to end.
Municipal virtues
Councils will be more important than ever in helping people through this turbulent period, writes Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
Is England set up to level up?
Levelling up is about good governance as well as growth, according to the LGA’s latest Smith Square debate.
‘You can’t level up from Whitehall’
Strong local government should be at the forefront of the post-pandemic recovery and has a key role to play in helping the most vulnerable in society, Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey told the LGA’s annual conference.