Local visions for growth
Trust is the missing ingredient in the Government’s plans for levelling up, according to Labour’s Lisa Nandy.
Levelling Up
Lack of transparency on levelling up funding
The Government has been accused of drawing up rules that allow billions of pounds of levelling up funding to be handed to their favoured areas, in a cross-party report from MPs.
The Queen’s Speech: levelling up
The LGA is helping shape and deliver the Government’s new legislative programme so that local communities are empowered to tackle inequalities.
Will ‘levelling up’ deliver for rural areas?
Launched with a flurry of grand statements, the ‘Levelling up the UK’ White Paper promised to ‘break the link between geography and destiny, so that no matter where you live you have access to the same opportunities’.
New bill ‘to empower local leaders’
The Government has set out its plans to drive local growth and empower local leaders to regenerate their areas, in a Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.
Jobs and skills warning when EU funds end
New jobs and skills training vital to levelling up the country are at risk of delay or being lost altogether because of a looming funding gap when existing European cash runs out.
Inquiry into levelling up and local leadership
The LGA has launched a ‘Levelling up local’ inquiry into how the Government’s levelling up agenda might better strengthen local communities.
Levelling up for the future
Government’s new white paper aims to give power to local authorities to make improvements in their communities.
Levelling up means power to the few
The levelling up white paper has landed, heralding that bigger local government bodies, with power siphoned to the few, are better.