Neil McInroy
Neil McInroy is chief executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies
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Local Government needs flexible geographies
In economic terms we need flexibility which allows local authority areas to work together and do different things at various geographic scales. For this to happen, we cannot get so hung up about fixed institutions at specific scales
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Snuggle Cities
We cannot let city centres suck the economic identity out of our local ‘secondary’ places, or let the economic development growth model of the city centre weaken local economic regeneration.
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The local state we are in
The local state we are in - requires local economic thinking to start paying attention to inequality, poverty, low income and worklessness and families and communities who are suffering. Cameron’s speech gets part of this in his praise for and call for ‘helping communities, families and individuals’ in a ‘big society’. However real change on poverty requires coordinated place based action. Mr Cameron - we need a brave and ‘big’ local state to do this.
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Doing ‘more for less’? We are going to need more!
The notion of ‘More for less’ is being touted around as a means of dealing with public sector cuts. It will not be enough to avert a new wave of social and urban decline and all its consequences.
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Local economic assessments should be intelligence rich
Local economic assessments cannot be about collecting and shuffling data together to create a mountain of ‘information’. Assessments have to be about prioritisation, analysis and exploration of how this evidence relates to, and in practice works with strategy and policy. In short assessments need to be intelligence ‘rich’.
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Comment on: Local government leading the innovative way
B, You may have a point, and as a st johnstone supporter, I do know about sparse turn outs in scottish cup ties! However, surely if you give more power and resources to local government more people would care and would mebbe turn out to vote and get involved more. I am sure that if st johnstone had more money from the Scottish Footbal Association...and/or even more power over the city of Perth, as regards planning, taxes etc..there would be more supporters or interested people. Heh! we may even have a chance of winning the cup! neil
