Infrastructure Australia’s 2021 Australian Infrastructure Plan sets a roadmap for infrastructure reform up to 2036. This briefing provides a summary of the plan with a focus on the key themes and areas for reform as they related to local government.
This briefing deals with the July 2021 inquiry into levelling up by the Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee. Evidence was taken from representatives of local government, Local Enterprise Partnerships, city mayors, Chambers of Commerce, and Ministers.
This briefing is the latest in the series briefly examining the Local Government Audit Service (LGAS) Value For Money (VFM) reports. This particular briefing specifically looks at the LGAS VFM report produced in December 2018 on ‘An Overview of Pension Income and Costs in Local Authorities’.
This briefing is focussed on guidelines fromthe new Local Council Lending Framework, which provide an outline of the key steps, milestones, and criteria for Victorian local governments to successfully access loans from TCV, and how councils can make best use of this new low-cost funding source.
A PfG is published every year at the beginning of September and sets out the actions of the Scottish Government for the coming year and beyond. While the country is facing a difficult and uncertain time, the Government have expressed the need to learn from the pandemic and to use the recovery to create a…
Co-production offers an opportunity for an equal partnership between people who use services, professionals, commissioners and providers of services. It has huge potential to develop and improve services that meet the needs defined by service users.
The Irish government finally published its housing programme for the next ten years, ‘Housing for All’, on 3rd September to a predictable chorus of mainly negative commentary. However, given the steady stream of prior announcements, many are also asking ‘what is new?’
The UK government has put investment in large transport and digital infrastructure projects at the heart of its approach to economic growth but has tended to overlook the important role of social infrastructure. This briefing examines the potential contribution of social infrastructure to the levelling up agenda.
Through engaging with new, original work that explores the climate action credentials of the City and City Region Deals, this briefing will discuss the pros and cons of both collaborative and competitive approaches to subnational development in relation to the climate challenge.
This is the second briefing in our series on the nexus between governance, recovery, and economic transitions. Dr Anne Tiernan explores strategies for driving economic regeneration, regional productivity, and innovation. It reviews research and emerging economic thinking about the enablers of economic growth outside of the major capital cities – the primary engines of employment…
