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Understanding Community Resilience in North Walsall
3rd May 2012
CLES has been awarded grant funding from the Barrow Cadbury Trust to undertake research work in the West Midlands.
Better Places National Awards 2012
12th April 2012
New Start magazine today launched the first Better Places National Awards in a bid to highlight inspirational and innovative projects across the UK.
Challenging the north/south divide debate
29th March 2012
Could overly focusing on England’s north-south divide hinder progressive thinking on inequality and poverty? A new paper suggests how a new robust localism and commitment to a redistributive centralism could address the growing divides across the country.
Budget 2012: A fair deal for local economies?
29th March 2012
A new publication from CLES examining the recent Budget and how it will affect local economic development in the future.
Budget proves government is ‘bereft of ideas’
23rd March 2012
The Budget offers little meaningful hope for areas lagging behind economically, according to CLES chief executive Neil Mcinroy.
Equality is being sidelined in the rush to reform the public sector, study finds
23rd February 2012
Public service reforms are being carried out with little consideration of their impact on society’s most vulnerable, according to research by CLES and the North West Infrastructure Partnership (NWIP).
Last chance for 20% discount on training places
22nd February 2012
These are difficult times and training budgets are tight so to help you make yours go further we are offering a big 20% discount on any training places booked before the end of February.
CLES Summit 2012: Making the most of localism
16th February 2012
CLES Summit: Making the most of localism will be held on the 4th July in Manchester and will assert that Localism at its best, must have a purpose far beyond bland administrative decentralisation and merely local power for powers sake.
Government policies undermine equalities work, new research reveals
24th January 2012
Voluntary Sector North West has recently published research undertaken by CLES and partners at the Centre for Local Policy Studies exploring the impact of emerging government policies upon equalities issues in the North West.
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