Opinion: How can policymakers help improve the wellbeing of local communities?
The coronavirus and the stalled European Super League should teach policymakers the same lesson: there is an urgent need to engage local communities in policy and delivery
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26 Apr 2021
It is over a year since Covid-19 arrived on British shores and the pandemic’s power to expose the vulnerabilities as well as strengths of our society remains undimmed. As the British Academy’s recent report,
The Covid Decade, has shown, the crisis has laid bare long-standing inequalities between rich and poor, old and young, North and South, those in different types of employment, and various ethnic communities. It has revealed the extent of the state’s resources and potential to protect the vulnerable and fix that which is broken. And it has provided a glimpse of exciting futures, such as one in which town centres play new roles, travel patterns are very different, education is