Good Local Economics

Right across the public sector, senior executives and officials are being forced to make cuts to their expenditure. Services are being stopped, others severely re-modelled, some rationed and others re-designed. Inevitably, people and communities – often the most disadvantaged – are being adversely hit by these cuts and changes. Long term and wholesale damage is being inflicted on communities, individuals and on society itself.

Today’s Cities Outlook 2015 event raises some important questions around the growing inequalities between and within cities in the UK. Unless recognition of these inequalities becomes a more explicit component of the cities agenda, things are only going to get worse.