Read the full report by Reclaiming Our Regional Economies, a collaboration between leading not-for-profit organisations: 🖊️ Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) 🖊️ @thrivingplaces.bsky.social 🖊️ @cooperativesuk.bsky.social 🖊️ @neweconomics.bsky.social cles.org.uk/publications...

Our new report out today outlines how our care system facilitates the extraction of value and wealth from places and local public service budgets, and explores what our communities, local and strategic authorities, and national governments can do about it. 📝💸📈

The Centre for Local Economies (CLES)@clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 Public money is being siphoned out the care system in profits, with millions going to private equity and tax haven firms @theguardian.com's @journo-jess.bsky.social has the story of our investigation into extraction from our care system ⤵️ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🎟️ Tickets now on sale for CWB Summit 2025! 📅 3 July | 📍Manchester Join changemakers, grassroots leaders and policymakers to explore how local democracy and community wealth building can shape fairer economies. 🎤 Andy Burnham, Grace Blakeley + more 🔗 cles.org.uk/events/cwb-s...

New CLES analysis shows that Trump’s 10% tariffs on UK exports will hit hardest outside London. 🚗 West Midlands: £330m drop (car exports) 💊 East of England: £240m drop (pharma, aerospace) ⚙️ NI: £40 per person lost 📖 Read more: cles.org.uk/press-releas...

We're excited to launch Care Full with an evening to inspire new ideas and action towards a caring economy. Thanks to: @autonomy-institute.bsky.social, @wstronge.bsky.social, @simonduffy.bsky.social & @emilykenway.bsky.social for their support. You can sign up here: carefulleconomy.co.uk/launch/

Care Full Launch Event

Care Full is launching! Sign up here We’re excited to launch Care Full with an evening to inspire new ideas and action towards a more caring economy. Join us to hear about Care Full’s a…

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🚨 New Report 🚨 What could we get if schools, hospitals and universities sourced more food locally? A stronger economy, better sustainability & healthier communities! 📢 Feeding the Future explores how public procurement can transform Sheffield’s food system. 📖 Read more: buff.ly/h4i34Yt

🚀 Work in local economic development? Join the next CLES Open Hour—a relaxed, open space to connect, reflect & recharge. This month, we're talking procurement act & spending review - what they mean and how to respond to them. Free & open to all! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cles-open-...

A very important feature of the Reclaiming Our Regional Economies programme is working out how to reduce runaway wealth extraction in our places - from health and care, to food, to housing. 1/2

The Centre for Local Economies (CLES)@clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Growth for who? The government is hell bent on getting it, but how can we shape who actually benefits? A great blog here from our partners in the RORE programme, Tabitha Hamilton @cooperativesuk.bsky.social and Emmet Kiberd @neweconomics.bsky.social 🔗 https://buff.ly/4kaSU96

🚨 New blog: Why investing in local public services is foundational to economic growth. A thread on how local government drives prosperity—and why restoring funding could create jobs, boost growth, and strengthen communities. 🧵👇

New national procurement policy will prompt and support public institutions across the country to generate greater social value from their procurements, and deliver greater wealth and wellbeing for their local communities as a result. 🤝

The Centre for Local Economies (CLES)@clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy Procurement Act (2023) day 🥳🍾🎉 As the Act comes into force, CLES's @TomLloydGoodwin (or procurement Santa, as we now call him) talks us through the benefits of the Act for fairer local economies and where the agenda needs to go next. Look out for more from us on this in the coming year...

Want to challenge inequality and build a stronger economy? Two very different (but equally exciting!) jobs going at CLES: 🌍 Trustees – Help steer our vision for economic justice. 📊 Researcher – Lead on policy-shaping research. Apply now 👉 cles.org.uk/jobs

"It seems the government does have honest intentions, but that needs to be followed up by action" CLES's Sean Benstead on BBC Politics this morning, talking growth plans, Green Book reform and the regeneration of Old Trafford. Full episode here ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"Infant mortality rises for third consecutive year in England. Risk of death for babies born in poorer areas is almost three times higher than in wealthier postcodes, figures show." The UK is a declining econcomy with a few extremely rich people. amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

The Telegraph is furious that it hasn't got the ceremonial benefits bloodletting it was promised & has branded it "the latest blow to businesses" 🤣 Business owners around the country waking up this morning & thinking "What?! No crackdown on ill & disabled people? May as well just shut up shop then"

1. I’m thinking aloud here, as I really don’t have the answers. This is a thread about the political challenge of the very large numbers of young men now supporting the far right. I’m writing it without blame or derision. I’m just trying to find a way through. 🧵

atm AI is probably a lot quicker than you but worse than you at your research job 📚✍️ but if you've only got 2hrs to get it written... you may as well go with chatGPT?

Santi Garcia@santigarcia.bsky.social · 2y ago

New research comparing AI #R&D capabilities of LLM agents against human experts reveals that #AIAgents perform better when given a time budget of 2 hours, but still humans outperform agents when given additional time for completing the task.
#FutureOfWork metr.org/AI_R_D_Evalu...

The abolition of work is all well and good until one considers that I need an excuse to wear my little outfits.

"In a truly free market society, pervasive private power of the kind wielded by Blackrock should not exist." As Keir Starmer meets Blackrock head Larry Fink, I've published an excerpt from Vulture Capitalism on the rise of Blackrock, and Fink, on my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

little one has caught hand,foot&mouth for the second time since she started at nursery in OCTOBER. the barrage of bugs since her first day has been something else 🤧🫣 when will it end?

Today is equal pay day - the day when women in the UK effectively work for free for the rest of the year, because of the gender pay gap 🙃 To mark the occasion, I've made 'Women of the North' starter pack of the incredible northern women you need to follow... go.bsky.app/P6Hu5Qk

Our condolences to the family of John Prescott on his passing today. An advocate for local and regional economies, John spoke at launch of CLES, and was President until 1997. Later, he wrote the foreword to this paper on the future of English regions: cles.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Nice to have an excuse to re-intro our lovely non-profit think-do tank! Get in touch for collabs to explore new ways to create economic systems change. & if you're an anchor institute and want to deliver more local wealth for your community... we'd love to work with you 📥🤝🌱

The Centre for Local Economies (CLES)@clesthinkdo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're CLES - the national organisation for local economies, a charity working towards a future where local economies benefit people🧑‍🤝‍🧑, place🏘️ and the planet🌍. Find out more: cles.org.uk