Press releases

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Press releases

Press Release: Pay key workers up to £1,200 for risking their lives during pandemic, argues CPP

Key workers have enabled our country to function during the coronavirus pandemic. This paper argues that they should be compensated accordingly.

Press Release: Council tax increases undermine the levelling up agenda

CPP analysis shows how the proposed rise in council tax is unfairly distributed between places and does not support the government’s twin aim of economic recovery and levelling up.

Press Release: Invest in ‘British BRICS’ to level up UK

A new report from the Centre for Progressive Policy suggests the UK faces a jobs crisis as bad as the 1980s when furlough ends in April.

Press Release: Urgent legal reform required to avoid worker exploitation during second wave of Covid

To prevent extreme insecurity, in-work poverty and exploitation arising out of the end of furlough, a new report from CPP is calling for urgent legal reform to the labour market.

Press Release: Reform law to enshrine businesses’ responsibilities to their communities

CPP publishes a new report which seeks to capitalise on the goodwill shown by businesses for communities during the crisis, redefining the role of business within place.

Press Release: Successfully ‘levelling up’ would add £242bn to Great Britain’s economy each year

CPP report suggests delivering on levelling up agenda would lead to annual productivity windfall of £242bn, equivalent to 13% of Great Britain’s GVA.

Press Release: CPP launches network to support local leaders drive forward inclusive economic recovery

The Centre for Progressive Policy has today launched the Inclusive Growth Network, a new initiative funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Press Release: Intervene now to halt workers heading from furlough to scrap heap, urges new CPP report

Analysis from CPP suggests that urgent intervention could help prevent 1.2 million people in ‘zombie jobs’ from falling into long-term unemployment when the furlough scheme ends.

Press Release: Effective bankruptcy threatens eight out of ten local authorities despite government Covid-19 support

CPP publishes figures highlighting that most upper tier local authorities face Covid-19-related costs that are greater than the funds available to them to respond to the crisis.

Press Release: Community spending decimated in the run up to Covid-19 undermining local resilience, new analysis from the Centre for Progressive Policy shows

CPP launches a new measure of community spending and finds it was totally decimated in the decade leading up to the Covid-19 crisis causing a fall in civic action.

Press Release: Red Wall economic scarring threatens ‘levelling up’ agenda

This report analyses and addresses the potential long-run economic impacts of COVID-19 at place level – seeking to ensure that we do not suffer another lost decade.

Press Release: Parts of Midlands and North West face up to 50% decline of economic output

Building on the latest figures from the OBR, the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) finds that the economic impact of coronavirus will vary significantly across the country.

Press Release: Places most at risk of death during pandemic revealed in new index

CPP launches a local area risk rating to identify which local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) face the highest threat to life during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Press Release: Levelling up agenda will fail if the government ignores spending on social infrastructure

This working paper argues that investment in social infrastructure has long-run economic returns, but that the current spending system has led it to be neglected.

Press Release: Big differences in NHS employment practices puts patients and local economies at risk

This report examines the role of the health service as an employer and provider of good jobs — utilising CPP’s Good Employer Index to rank all 223 NHS trusts.

Press Release: Outsourcing company Capita named worst major UK employer, shows new index

This CPP report identifies the extent to which the UK’s largest employers are providing good employment.

Press Release: Cross-party call to rethink how we define economic progress and the good life

Going beyond GDP, CPP has developed a measure that brings together the priorities of inclusive growth into a single figure on the country level.

Press Release: Better health critical to shared prosperity, shows new economic index of local areas

A new report by CPP introduces the CPP Community Index measuring inclusive growth at local authorities level.

Press Release: English population loses 80 million years of life due to socioeconomic inequality

New analysis from the Centre of Progressive Policy (CPP) shows 80 million life years are lost due to inequalities in education, income, employment, crime and housing in England.

Press Release: Squeezed middle are hardest hit by double blow of stagnating household income and increasing housing costs

Housing costs have been the major driver in the cost of living over the last 20 years. But these costs have impacted different income groups in different ways.

Joint response: The flaw that will torpedo the government’s housebuilding ambitions

Joint response by the CPP, Civitas and Shelter to Ministerial Statement by the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire.

Press Release: Alarming new research indicates unplanned admissions and delayed transfers of care are greater for those living in areas with fragmented healthcare systems

Alarming new research indicates unplanned admissions and delayed transfers of care are greater for those living in areas with fragmented healthcare systems.

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