Annabel Smith
@annabel-smith.bsky.social
Director, Growth and Reform Network. Working with places across UK for a more inclusive economy. New to Bluesky.
The Centre for Progressive Policy, with its Inclusive Growth Network, is becoming the Growth and Reform Network. Our mission is to bridge the gap between national policymaking and regional/local practice.
We're looking for someone great to help engage with members and spread the word on our work!
We're looking for someone great to help engage with members and spread the word on our work!
📢 We're #hiring!
Join the Growth and Reform Network as our new Communications & Engagement Officer. Help shape inclusive economic growth and public service reform across the UK.
📍 Flexible location (London base)
💼 £29–34k, FT, Perm
📅 Apply by 3rd June
🔗 www.progressive-policy.net/about-us/car...
Join the Growth and Reform Network as our new Communications & Engagement Officer. Help shape inclusive economic growth and public service reform across the UK.
📍 Flexible location (London base)
💼 £29–34k, FT, Perm
📅 Apply by 3rd June
🔗 www.progressive-policy.net/about-us/car...
APPG on Inclusive Growth
inclusivegrowth.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Centre for Progressive Policy, with its Inclusive Growth Network, is becoming the Growth and Reform Network. Our mission is to bridge the gap between national policymaking and regional/local practice.
We're looking for someone great to help engage with members and spread the word on our work!
We're looking for someone great to help engage with members and spread the word on our work!
There is clearly an imperative to grip the ballooning welfare bill and rising economic inactivity due to ill health. The challenge is that the interventions that will tackle the root causes - preventative public health, employment support, joined up training and pathways - are stretched further.
I don’t envy Rachel Reeves today. While rigid fiscal rules can encourage short-termism and hinder investment its hard to argue that she is in a position to borrow more money. But her decisions to slash disability benefits and support for those with health conditions lacks long term strategy
March 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There is clearly an imperative to grip the ballooning welfare bill and rising economic inactivity due to ill health. The challenge is that the interventions that will tackle the root causes - preventative public health, employment support, joined up training and pathways - are stretched further.
Reposted by Annabel Smith
Quick thread on today's commitment to £1.5bn for neighbourhood renewal channeling John Prescott's New Deal for Communities of the 2000s. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Rayner rolls out £1.5billion pot to boost 75 neighbourhoods - see list of areas
A total of 75 areas will each receive up to £20million in funding over the next decade to help revive high streets, youth clubs, parks and libraries, the government said
www.mirror.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Quick thread on today's commitment to £1.5bn for neighbourhood renewal channeling John Prescott's New Deal for Communities of the 2000s. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
A timely reminder from @tanyasingh99.bsky.social that with local growth plans and national industrial strategy being finalised, the everyday economy shouldn't be discounted as separate to efforts to revive UK productivity.
🚨The underperformance of the UK's foundational sectors costs the economy at least £105 billion.
Our latest blog from @tanyasingh99.bsky.social asks how policymakers can solve the productivity puzzle in the foundational economy👇
inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/ign-insights...
Our latest blog from @tanyasingh99.bsky.social asks how policymakers can solve the productivity puzzle in the foundational economy👇
inclusivegrowthnetwork.org/ign-insights...
The Productivity Blind Spot: Why UK policymakers can’t afford to…
Tanya Singh sets out how the UK can crack the productivity code in it's foundational sectors.
inclusivegrowthnetwork.org
March 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A timely reminder from @tanyasingh99.bsky.social that with local growth plans and national industrial strategy being finalised, the everyday economy shouldn't be discounted as separate to efforts to revive UK productivity.