Charlotte is the Director of the Centre for Progressive Policy. Previously Charlotte was Director of Public Services and Communities at the RSA, where she also ran the Inclusive Growth Commission – chaired by Stephanie Flanders – and City Growth Commission – chaired by Lord Jim O’Neill. Before joining the RSA, Charlotte was a Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, working on immigration, energy and housing.
No amount of political Budget gloss will cover the cracks of the UK’s productivity problem, but the role of place in the industrial strategies offers a glimmer of hope
No amount of political Budget gloss will cover the cracks of the UK’s productivity problem, but the role of place in the industrial strategies offers a glimmer of hope. Continue reading “Government finally shows signs of spatial awareness in its industrial strategy”
But the Commission’s final report misses an opportunity to put sub-regional devolution at the heart of a new approach to strategic economic management.
But the Commission’s final report misses an opportunity to put sub-regional devolution at the heart of a new approach to strategic economic management.
“Rise up with me against the organisation of misery,” rallied Sir Michael Marmot in his 2010 landmark review of health inequalities in the UK. Quoting Pablo Neruda lends poetic grace to the weight of Marmot’s quantitative evidence as to the ‘social gradient’ of health. Poor people die younger and get ill earlier. In their lifetime, people living in the most deprived areas of the country are likely to experience levels of ill health not seen amongst individuals in the least deprived areas for another 20 years. Health inequalities are inextricably linked to social and economic inequalities. As the World Health Organisation (WHO) put it starkly, “social injustice is killing on a grand scale”.
Continue reading “Fresh vision as the Industrial Strategy Commission moves beyond sector deals”
