http://www.lgcplus.com http://www.lgcplus.com http://www.lgcplus.com/magazine/graphics/logo.png http://www.lgcplus.com http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/services/economic-development/mill-town-partners-focus-on-renewal/5018911.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/services/economic-development/mill-town-partners-focus-on-renewal/5018911.blog The government wants partnerships of local councils to join together across their boundaries and work with businesses to boost their local economy. Chief reporter Allister Hayman travels to east Lancashire to find out about plans being put in place by Blackburn, Burnley and their neighbours for a new Local Enterprise Partnership. Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:18 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-people/blogs/from-public-to-private-jobs-high-stakes-in-rebalancing-local-economies/5018855.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-people/blogs/from-public-to-private-jobs-high-stakes-in-rebalancing-local-economies/5018855.blog The government wishes to rebalance local economies away from public sector employment. However for some areas this transition is not going to be easy. Indeed, for it to happen the government and Local Authorities are going to have to seriously consider the mechanisms and resources required to do this. The market will not do it on its own. Thu, 2 Sep 2010 08:48 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/blogs/doing-big-society/5018827.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/blogs/doing-big-society/5018827.blog The question is not so much ‘what are councils doing?’ but ‘what are citizens doing?’ in the name of a bigger society Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:47 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/corporate-core/comms/the-transparency-agenda-lgcs-editorial-line/5018812.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/corporate-core/comms/the-transparency-agenda-lgcs-editorial-line/5018812.blog In a recent contribution to the Conservative Home website, one blogger got hot under the collar about reaction to DCLG publishing all spending over £500 – and LGC’s coverage of the story. Always a fan of transparency, it struck me that I should be open about LGC’s approach and our editorial line. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:13 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/topics/economic-development/lay-of-the-land-the-geography-of-leps-live/5018558.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/topics/economic-development/lay-of-the-land-the-geography-of-leps-live/5018558.blog A continually updated list of Local Enterprise Partnership proposals, region by region, as they develop ahead of the 6 September deadline (Last update: 2 September, 15:53) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:10 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-people/blogs/leps-must-nurture-adaptable-local-economies/5018547.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-people/blogs/leps-must-nurture-adaptable-local-economies/5018547.blog Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), need to now get on and start thinking about what they need to do. In this they need to reject the economics of the past and acknowledge that economic complexity is the norm and that they need to be the hub for an adaptable local economy Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:46 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-people/blogs/the-biggest-couch-potato-of-them-all/5018524.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/lgc-people/blogs/the-biggest-couch-potato-of-them-all/5018524.blog Any “army of armchair auditors” will be dominated by the biggest couch potato of them all - the TaxPayers’ Alliance Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:42 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/services/economic-development/its-the-real-economy-stupid/5018420.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/services/economic-development/its-the-real-economy-stupid/5018420.blog Councils have been asked to come to government with proposals for new sub-regional economic development partnerships. But in many areas disputes are breaking out over the geography of these new bodies. As councils focus more on the question of who they might partner with, rather than what their partnership might be for, local government is in danger blowing the excellent opportunity it has been handed, writes chief reporter Allister Hayman. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:50 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/joint-working/health/pariahs-or-service-providers/5018325.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/joint-working/health/pariahs-or-service-providers/5018325.blog The public, private and 3rd sectors have always co-habited quite happily together, with the occasional tiff often over where the line between them should be drawn, if indeed it should. Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:57 GMT http://www.lgcplus.com/blogs/dont-shoot-me-im-only-the-piano-player/5018092.blog?referrer=RSS http://www.lgcplus.com/blogs/dont-shoot-me-im-only-the-piano-player/5018092.blog Our Care Trust+ has certainly caused quite a stir… Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:05 GMT