Good Local Economics

In 2014 Salford made a pledge to become a ‘social value city’. Anne Lythgoe reports on progress so far.

Ian Stewart, the elected city mayor of Salford, has stated that the area has an ambition to become a ‘social value city’ where the majority of private, public, community and voluntary sector organisations are signed up to a social value charter and including social value in all their activities.

Today, I embark on a three week fact finding mission to the United States. I am particularly interested to understand how their places and cities have responded to the challenges posed by economic decline and how we can learn from these activities in a UK context.