Publications

2011 - 2012

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  RAPID RESEARCH

  RR19: The Opportunities and Challenges of the Work Programme

  21st April 2011

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  This Rapid Research identifies a number of key challenges and opportunities for the delivery of the Work Programme....
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  BULLETIN

  The government’s social mobility strategy – Is fairness enough?

  21st April 2011

  140.8kB     .pdf

  This bulletin assesses the key elements of the social mobility and child poverty strategies and explores some of the issues behind...
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  BULLETIN

  Budget 2011 - a budget for widening gaps

  31st March 2011

  127.0kB     .pdf

  This bulletin provides an overview of the key economic development related policies in the 2011 Budget and identifies and comments...
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  BULLETIN

  Welfare reform – A new deal, but is it a fair deal?

  16th March 2011

  195.9kB     .pdf

  This Bulletin examines the core elements of the Coalition’s proposals for tackling the Welfare Reform agenda through the Welfare...
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  RESEARCH

  Productive local economies: creating resilient places

  16th March 2011

  446.8kB     .pdf

  How economic development, planning and regeneration need to change in order to support stronger place resilience in the future....
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  RAPID RESEARCH

  RR18: Localism Bill – a raw deal for local government?

  28th January 2011

  219.7kB     .pdf

  This Rapid Research explores the Localism Bill from the perspective of local government....
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  LOCAL WORK

  The role for well-being in creating the Big Society

  28th January 2011

  82.3kB     .pdf

  This issue of Local Work explores the relationship between well-being and Big Society. ...
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  RESEARCH

  ‘Big Society’: Social action and the role of public space

  26th January 2011

  600.1kB     .pdf

  Examines how public space provides a site of engagement in which social action can be fostered and 'Big Society' nurtured. ...
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  RESEARCH

  Where next for ethnic diversity policy-making at the local level?

  26th January 2011

  393.0kB     .pdf

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2010 - 2011

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  LOCAL WORK

  The Future City Game

  15th December 2010

  163.9kB     .pdf

  This Local Work outlines the way in which the Game is played, including what makes its approach innovative, and highlights practic...
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  RESEARCH

  The power of procurement

  12th December 2010

  444.2kB     .pdf

  New research published by CLES explores the economic, social and environmental benefits of procurement....
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  BULLETIN

  The Localism Bill

  1st December 2010

  157.5kB     .pdf

  CLES' analysis of the recently announced Localism Bill....
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  RESEARCH

  Think-piece: Grant making with the voluntary sector

  12th November 2010

  509.1kB     .pdf

  Grants are vital to ensuring that the VCS preserves its role in civil society...
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  LOCAL WORK

  LW103: Green shoots? The potential role of urban agriculture in regenerating our urban areas

  3rd November 2010

  89.2kB     .pdf

  This Local Work examines the background to the urban agriculture movement and explores its potential for reviving our urban areas ...
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  BULLETIN

  B79: How do we do local economic development post CSR?

  1st November 2010

  189.0kB     .pdf

  This Bulletin explores how we do local economic development in a cold economic climate through examining a number of levers....
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  RESEARCH

  Area Based Initiatives – do they deliver?

  12th October 2010

  275.1kB     .pdf

  This CLES briefing explores the impact on deprived communities by one of Labour’s biggest area based initiatives – the New Dea...
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  LW102: Tokenism not localism?

  23rd September 2010

  88.5kB     .pdf

  This paper identifies potential barriers to the Coalition’s localism agenda with the anticipated Decentralisation and Localism B...
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  BULLETIN

  B78: LEP of faith?

  23rd September 2010

  153.6kB     .pdf

  This Bulletin explains the process and outlines CLES's findings so far about the challenges facing LEPs. ...