The report reveals '£276 billion of untapped local economic opportunity'.

Recommendations include:
💷 Sustainable funding for councils, with greater fiscal flexibility
🤝 Stronger cross-tier collaboration, including better data sharing across levels of government.
📈LGPs co-designed with councils

The toolkit supports the policy report and international evidence review published last month, which explored available evidence on health outcomes from place-based economic development initiatives in the UK and 144 countries.

Read the evidence review 👇 growthandreform.org/resource-hub...

It’s smart policy: low fiscal cost, high social return. A rare win-win.

🔗 Find the full report here: www.jrf.org.uk/work/improvi...

🔗 Find today's coverage in the FT here: www.ft.com/content/5c4a...