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14/02/2020Council’s £5m plan for EV charging network

North Lanarkshire Council’s Environment and Transportation Committee has given its backing to a potential £5m project of investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging and electricity network infrastructure across the region. The pro more >

14/02/2020LEP establishes £2m flood recovery fund for SMEs

The Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (the LEP) has announced a £2m recovery fund for businesses in Calderdale that suffered in the Storm Ciara floods. Working in partnership with Calderdale Council and the West Yorkshire Combined more >

14/02/2020Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry steps down

Last night, (Feb 13) Conservative MP, Jake Berry took to twitter to announce he has stepped down from government and his roles as Northern Powerhouse Minister and Local Growth Minister. In a series of tweets from the Darwen and Rossendale MP, more >

14/02/2020Council’s £5m plan for EV charging network

North Lanarkshire Council’s E... more >

14/02/2020LEP establishes £2m flood recovery fund for SMEs

The Leeds City Region Enterprise Pa... more >

14/02/2020Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry steps down

Last night, (Feb 13) Conservative M... more >

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07/02/2020Government announces £22m investment into active travel

The government has published a number of measures to encourage people to opt for cycling and walking, including highlighting positive outcomes of successful programmes, extension of the Access Fund and plans of cycle training for every child in...

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06/02/2020Full council recommends Waverley budget proposals

Yesterday (Feb 6) Waverley Borough Council’s Executive unanimously approved the draft budget scheduled for presentation at the Full Council meeting on 18 February. The draft budget sees council tax rise with inflation by 1.9%, allowing the...

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05/02/2020Further Education to benefit from £24m support package

The Department for Education has today (Feb 5) committed to a multi-million pound investment into Further Education (FE) to recruit train and develop the workforce and boost skills and opportunities in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williams made...

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15/01/2020NPIF at EvoNorth 2020: investment opportunity in the North

Grant Peggie, Director at British Business Bank Launched by British Business Bank in 2017, the £400m Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is supporting economic prosperity in the region by making commercial investments into growing...

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15/01/2020Housing Consortium becomes Northern Powerhouse partner

The Northern Housing Consortium (NHC), a membership body representing around 90% of housing providers across the North of England, has become the latest member of the Northern Powerhouse Partner Programme. The Northern Powerhouse is a government...

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15/01/2020Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy: How Bristol City Council is tackling climate change

Source PSE: Dec 19/Jan 20 Cllr Kye Dudd Bristol has always been a city with sustainability at its heart. In November 2018, we were the first UK city to declare a climate emergency and, since then, we’ve begun to build environmental...

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13/01/2020Sustainability: is it time to view economic development through a different lens?

Source PSE: Dec 19/Jan 2020 Mark Lynam is a Board Member of the Institute of Economic Development, and Director of Transport, Housing and Infrastructure in Sheffield City Region’s Executive Team. We need a new paradigm for economic...

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13/01/2020How can The Northern Powerhouse support the next generation?

Denise Park, Chief Executive of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, chats to PSE about the risk of smaller towns getting left behind on the Northern Powerhouse agenda. For Northern Council’s it’s really important to raise the profile...

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09/01/2020Edwina Hannaford: Creating a carbon neutral cornwall

Edwina Hannaford, Cornwall Council Portfolio Holder for Climate Change and Neighbourhoods, Cornwall Council

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08/01/2020LGA: Upskilling the Workplace

Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20 The Local Government Association (LGA) discusses upskilling and retraining staff in public sector workplace. As leaders of place, councils and combined authorities want to work with partners across the...

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07/01/2020Unlocking the Potential of Towns

Source: PSE Decc 19/Jan 20 Pippa Coutts, Carnegie UK Trust Carnegie UK Trust has been promoting wellbeing in the UK and Ireland for over one hundred years. The results of a survey the Trust conducted with IPSOS Mori in 2018 reveal that two...

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07/01/2020One Northern council's shopping list for central government

Tony Oakman, chief executive of Bolton Council spoke to PSE about the Northern Powerhouse and the key priorities he’s like to see from central government. From my perspective I think the Northern Powerhouse is significant to say the least in...

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07/01/2020A renewed partnership between business and government

Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20 Matthew Fell CBI Chief UK Policy Director from Whitehall to townhalls, from head office to high street shops Speaking to businesses across the North there’s enormous pride and enthusiasm for its potential....

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07/01/2020Food for thought - Stephen Garthwaite, Ysgol y Grango

Source: PSE Dec19/Jan 20 Stephen Garthwaite, headteacher, Ysgol y Grango In November Ysgol y Grango, the secondary school in Rhosllanerchrugog in Wrexham of which I am headteacher, hosted the launch of the Stop School Hunger / Dysgu Nid...

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06/01/2020How the Northern Powerhouse could help meet economic potential

Becca Heron, director of Economy and Skills at Wigan Council spoke to PSE about the Northern Powerhouse and why transport links and skills are key to transforming the North. The Northern Powerhouse is extraordinarily important, the UK has got one of...

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03/01/2020Strengthening connections between Northern Powerhouse leaders

Source: PSE Dec 19/Jan 20 Carol Matthews - Chief Executive of The Riverside Group and Chair to H4N – ‘Homes for the North’ Good quality homes are the bedrock of a strong economy and thriving communities yet, across the North, not...

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14/02/2020Council’s £5m plan for EV charging network

North Lanarkshire Council’s Environment and Transportation Committee has given its backing to a potential £5m project of investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging and electricity netw more >

14/02/2020LEP establishes £2m flood recovery fund for SMEs

The Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (the LEP) has announced a £2m recovery fund for businesses in Calderdale that suffered in the Storm Ciara floods. Working in partnership with more >

14/02/2020Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry steps down

13/02/2020Sajid Javid resigns as Chancellor amid cabinet reshuffle

It was announced today (Feb 13) that Sajid Javid resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is to be replaced by his deputy, Rishi Sunak. Javid had spent only 204 days in the role of Chancell more >

13/02/2020How the food and drink industry in Wales smashed its £7bn target for growth

Andy Richardson, Chair of the Food and Drink Wales Industry Board In 2014, a vision was laid out in the Action Plan for the Food and Drink Industry in Wales to establish how the industry would more >

13/02/2020Major investment plans for Kirklees council approved

Major investment plans set out by Kirklees Council have been given the green light following budget approval. Yesterday (Feb 12) saw the Full Council vote to approve Kirklees Council’s Bu more >

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14/11/2019Utilising data to best deliver meaningful public services

Public Sector Executive’s Matt Roberts explains how living in a modern, interconnected world, as we do, means public sector organisations cannot afford to ignore the role of data. Data is all around us in the modern age. Unseen, the digital environment plays a role in near on every aspe more >