This blog summarises the latest policy news that is important to place, including reports, inquiries, consultations, government research and events.
Reports from Academics and Think Tanks
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| How Universities Can Help Drive Local and Regional Economies | This report puts universities at the centre of the debate on how to generate growth in local and regional economies with national impact. | July 2025
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Arts, universities and local government: Collaborating for culture-fuelled growth |
Cross-sector partnerships are complex. Evelyn Wilson writes they need time, financial resource, proactive caring and ethical handling, not to mention the odd leap of faith. | 2025 |
| Policy landscape 2025 | A report by the Resolution Foundation and UK in a Changing Europe, there’s a section on local government in there. | |
| The Productivity Institute Annual Review 2024-25 | This year’s edition provides an overview of TPI’s research activity, with case studies on digital skills supply, Artificial Intelligence, urban and regional economies, and National Productivity Week 2025. It also features updates on the Productivity Puzzles podcast, the Productivity Lab, the Productivity Commission and the work of the Institute in the policy sphere. |
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| This paper is part of our Unsung Britain project, which explores the everyday economic reality for low- to middle-income families. It shifts the focus beyond income, looking instead at the savings, debts, and arrears that shape households’ ability to weather financial shocks. |
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This briefing sets out how local universities contribute to cities’ economic development as high-skilled employers, international exporters, catalysts for city-centre regeneration and innovators. |
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The Government has been around the houses on planning reform over the past year – a new zoning system would break the deadlock. |
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| The Youth Guarantee and the benefits system |
Youth Futures Foundation commissioned Learning and Work Institute to explore the challenges and opportunities the benefits system raises for the Youth Guarantee, and what changes might need to be made to ensure that the benefits system effectively interacts with the Youth Guarantee to support young people. |
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