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Posted By Jonathan Wright
27 July 2011
Lord Jones – the former CBI director and Labour Trade Minister – thinks that children who are struggling at school should be allowed to leave education and ‘earn a few bob’.
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13 May 2011
Second, the scale of investment seems relatively small compared to the magnitude of the task that lies ahead; especially given the short and long term implications of neglecting to deal with youth unemployment.
07 April 2011
Yesterday (7 Apr) South Yorkshire welcomed the news that Rolls-Royce plans to build three new factories at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham
23 March 2011
Today the Chancellor rightly highlighted the importance of tackling the UK’s growing youth unemployment problem, but he could have gone further...
09 March 2011
The Coalition has ambitions to be the ‘greenest government ever’. Last month, the Energy Secretary Chris Huhne announced a new ‘green deal’.
14 January 2011
Last month I blogged about the Coalition’s new Localism Bill and the Financial Settlement that went alongside it. The £29 billion a year Formula Grant is to be cut by 27% over the next 4 years. This will have profound implications for cities.
13 December 2010
Devolution is a positive thing. In principle it enables local people to affect real change within their communities and local area, empowering people who have local knowledge with the ability to manage and deliver services efficiently and appropriately.....
08 July 2010
The Coalition government believes that ‘rebalancing’ the UK economy is a top priority. It wants to stimulate growth in the private sector outside of the South East of England. And later this summer it will publish a white paper on how it intends to do just that.