Levelling up in 'left behind neighbourhoods'

Guardian piece featuring our Big Local work

Report by all-party parliamentary group says policies must be guided by local needs, not a ‘national template’

Barbara Slasor, Gaunless Gateway Community Development Lead and Lesley Watts local volunteer,  were recently interviewed by Mark Brown North of England Correspondent for the Guardian. 

England’s most “left behind” neighbourhoods will remain places where “human flourishing is limited and potential squandered” without changes in government levelling up policy, an all-party group of MPs and peers has said.
The neighbourhoods, where 2.4 million people live, could even see inequalities worsening over the next two decades without reform.
The all-party parliamentary group for left behind neighbourhoods published a report on Wednesday seen as the first in-depth inquiry into how the government’s levelling up policies are working on the ground.
There are 225 neighbourhoods in England identified as “left behind”. They are inhabited by about 4% of the population and are places which experience high levels of deprivation and community need and low levels of investment and resources. Often, they are housing estates on the edge of post-industrial towns.
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