Greater Manchester begins £6bn ‘devo health’ experiment
Local authority becomes first in England to take control of its health and social care budget, but there is widespread uncertainty.
Devolution
Greater devolution could reduce poverty and inequality
More devolution of powers and budgets from Whitehall offers councils the chance to tackle poverty and inequality by ‘doing things differently’.
Think tank calls for ‘double devolution’ revolution
A think-tank has urged councils to use new devolved powers from Westminster to help tackle poverty and inequality.
Inequality knows no compass points
This blog is also a chapter in a new e-book ‘The Politics of the North: Governance, Territory and Identity in Northern England, co-edited by SPERI’s deputy director Craig Berry and SPERI researcher Arianna Giovannini.
BULLETIN
The Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill
This CLES bulletin does three things. Firstly it summarises the content of the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill; second...
CLES 10
Devolution: A Historical and Global context
It is imperative that new governance structures actively accommodate the voices of citizens and the social economy; yet, it is onl...
BULLETIN
Implications of the Queen’s speech 2015
This bulletin will discuss the implications of the Conservative proposals outlined in the Queen’s speech and general election ma...
NHS devolution: the route to tackling health inequality?
The announcement that the £6bn NHS budget in Greater Manchester will be devolved to the city region has taken many by surprise. The government has already devolved £2bn of spending to the city region. This proposal (the details of which still need to be worked up) is worth three times that amount, devolving nationally controlled structures such as hospitals and GPs to merge with local support and community care services. Greater Manchester will create a new ‘health and wellbeing’ commission to control the flow of money across the system, and to create links between primary and community and residential care.
RESEARCH
The Local Double Dividend
This CLES research report argues the flawed economic thinking and a Treasury economic model that has left so many parts of the UK ...
