CLES News
See the latest news from CLES, including press releases from us, and CLES in the press.
Welcome to your new website
3rd February 2011
Welcome to your new CLES website! With improved functionality and navigation and offering exclusive access to all our content, we hope you will find it a vital resource to help you in your work.
Goodbye, but should we be saying hello to Local Strategic Partnerships?
17th January 2011 By Neil McInroy
Local Government Chronicle blog by Neil McInroy.
Weaker local economies need hands on support to help create the Big Productive Society
8th December 2010
Government plans to dismantle tailored business support will lead inevitably to the decline of deprived areas, a report by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and Furness Enterprise has found.
Think-tank warns that councils need to consider the economic consequences of their cuts programme more
2nd December 2010
From work carried out on Suffolk County Council’s New Strategic Direction, it was found that the Council’s economic future could potentially be ‘destabilised’, says a new report from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES).
Deprived areas need hands on support to become productive again
2nd December 2010
Government plans to dismantle tailored business support…
The implications of local government cuts and changes to service provision
2nd December 2010
A new piece of CLES research looking at the ramifications of cuts in local government based on work carried out in Suffolk.




