The future of our society hangs on our ability to meet the needs of everyone who lives here. For many it is about security and just about managing: a decent job, a home and a life free from fear of economic precarity or crime.

The Covid-19 pandemic has radically reshaped the UK’s economic geography. The “Zoomshock” has moved work from offices to homes, redistributing economic activity from city centres to suburban and rural areas.

New data on the UK’s vaccine rollout has shown some striking disparities in protection between places, with cities falling behind.

Last Tuesday 18th May, we joined the ‘Inclusive economies and fairer futures: How to build back better’ webinar, hosted by the LGA and chaired by Cllr Colin Noble (Member of the LGA Community Wellbeing Board and Suffolk County Council Councillor).

New video - The Fens are the most exposed area of the UK to Climate Change. But by rising to the challenge of COP26 and taking a radical approach to water management, the area is showing the world how to respond and thrive.

As the lockdown begins to lift, the economy starts to open and local vaccination programmes continue to make progress, the UK is looking optimistically towards recovery and renewal from the pandemic.

We've expanded our highly experienced external funding and business case team, to help with securing Levelling Up, CRF and future shared prosperity funding. Here are some of the ways we can help.

The Chancellor said he wanted to use this Budget to a) support people and businesses through Covid-19, b) fix the public finances, and c) build the future economy.

In the pre-lockdown days of dinner parties, one of the books that often cropped up in debate was Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow.

The Prime Minister’s levelling up agenda – promising to ‘unleash the productive power not just of London and the South East’ and ‘answer at last the plea of the forgotten people and left behind towns’ to ‘close the opportunity gap’ – requires a long journey of transformation

The last few weeks of coronavirus restrictions have put a big strain on relations between northern leaders and the Government. It’s no surprise that questions have begun to be asked about whether the Northern Powerhouse is still for real.

As furlough ends, which sectors will be hard hit? Might white collar workers - those who have seemed the safest - be most vulnerable? We get into the data with this video explainer.

The Inclusive Growth Network will focus on reducing inequalities, alleviating poverty and improving productivity in communities across the UK.

There can be fewer more important or tricky challenges facing the British economy than levelling up the performance of our towns and cities by kickstarting the innovation economy.

The 2020 Public Services Commission started its work in 2008, and our final report was published in the early months of the Cameron Coalition Government. We spanned two governments and the greatest financial crash of modern times.