Ed Cox
Ed Cox, director, IPPR North
Stories
Ed Cox: Funding inequality is leading to educational inequalitySubscription
Bolstering educational attainment in the north will ultimately require the sort of funding enjoyed by schools in the south
Ed Cox: We need place-based solutions to skills gapsSubscription
Despite all the promises that ‘place’ would sit at the heart of the industrial strategy, in fact it’s tucked away at the end.
Ed Cox: The North could lead an energy revolutionSubscription
The government’s clean growth strategy was published in October with very little fanfare.
Ed Cox: Confront the spectre of a federal EnglandSubscription
Our European neighbours lack our reticence for “mezzanine-level” institutions, writes Ed Cox of IPPR North
Public must be included in the city devolution debateSubscription
City-region focus should not be at the expense of smaller centres, writes the IPPR’s Ed Cox
Responding to new opportunitiesSubscription
Our great cities may once again find the freedom to drive prosperity but can they now step up to the plate?
A fresh focus on fair and sustainable local economiesSubscription
Whether or not business rate retention is a fair or effective mechanism, with the economy flat-lining local government should have every incentive to play a vital role in economic development regardless.
The funding chickens come home to roostSubscription
Cost pressures too easily squeeze the commissioning process and reduce value-for-money considerations to simplistic economies of scale
What they said: IPPRSubscription
Real localism will only be achieved by reforming local taxation so that council tax is replaced by a fairer mix of income and properties taxes
North senseSubscription
The drive to create local enterprise partnerships is based on the idea that local economies develop around a ‘natural economic geography’.
Blog posts
LEP link-ups key to Northern economic future
Last week Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership set out its strategy for economic growth under the banner: realising our potential
Where next for participatory budgeting?
After a decade of experimentation with participatory budgeting, could this be the moment when the idea moves from the margins to the mainstream?
Why Big Society is key to rebalancing the economy
Some it call it Big Society but whatever the name, positive community outlook is vital if deprived neighbourhoods are going to improve.
From cuts sticking plaster to social enterprise solution
There was plenty of talk about Big Society at the Liberal Democrat conference last week including an interesting fringe where it was claimed that Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 - 1967 was the “inventor of Big Society”. But many party activists were more sceptical and whilst the guiding sentiments play well with liberal philosophy, the social democrat element was concerned more about the cuts
Doing Big Society
The question is not so much ‘what are councils doing?’ but ‘what are citizens doing?’ in the name of a bigger society
