Deep Place Engagement

Deep Place Engagement

We work to harness not only the best of central, but also local government to shape the national economic environment and build on the assets and opportunities of place.

Blogs

18 April 2019

Time to grow up? What England can learn from international approaches to adult education

Four key issues all countries must get right to achieve an effective system of lifelong learning.

Blogs

30 April 2019

CPP response to the Social Mobility Commission's State of the Nation report

Social mobility in the UK is virtually stagnant, but a flourishing system of lifelong learning can be a key driver of social mobility.

Blogs

1 May 2019

Inclusive Growth: it's time to measure what we value

Andy Norman explains how CPP is working with the APPG to develop ways of measuring of inclusive growth at the community, country and employer level.

Blogs

2 May 2019

How housing policy can support the Scottish Government’s Inclusive Growth Strategy

Following the Scottish Housing Policy Conference 2019, Thomas Aubrey summarises how housing policy can support the Scottish Government’s Inclusive Growth Strategy.

Events

4 June 2019

Where have all the good jobs gone? Why the job market is not as healthy as it seems.

In-conversation with economist David G Blanchflower

Blogs

7 May 2019

How to do local inclusive growth - Step 6: moving to integrated service delivery and preventative spending

In the final post of our inclusive growth series we look at the role of public services in integrating and investing in social and economic infrastructure.

Working papers

Unsqueezing the middle

CPP analysis shows that house prices have increased in the last 20 years at a much faster rate than earnings, resulting in a decrease in disposable income across median households.

Press releases

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.

News

28 May 2019

The Sunday Times - More bad news for Britain's squeezed middle

The Sunday Times refers to our latest work on housing costs and highlights the increased difficulty average income households face in climbing the housing ladder.

Blogs

3 June 2019

Solving poverty is key to improving our nation’s health

Claire Ainsley, JRF Executive Director argues that little progress has been made so far in developing an approach to tackling poverty as one of the root causes of health issues.

Blogs

4 June 2019

Housing and place play a key role in people’s health

Kate Henderson from the NHF refers to our upcoming report - Beyond the NHS, writing about the importance of place and housing for people's health.

Blogs

4 June 2019

To reap the benefits of the NHS as an anchor institution we need to shift its culture

Jo Bibby, Director of Health at The Health Foundation, emphasises the role of the NHS as an anchor institution.

Reports

Beyond the NHS

The final part of our year-long inquiry into health and social care sets out a compelling alternative, sustainable, whole systems model for health and social care in England.

Press releases

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.

Blogs

5 June 2019

A healthy London requires a holistic approach to health

Tom Coffey, Health Advisor to the Mayor of London, refers to our upcoming report Beyond the NHS, arguing that health inequalities prevent Londoners from fulfilling their potential.

Blogs

7 June 2019

David Blanchflower talks underemployment at CPP

CPP welcomed Dartmouth professor and former Monetary Policy Committee member David Blanchflower to our London office to discuss the key ideas of his new book Not Working.

Blogs

10 June 2019

Increasing housing supply can improve living standards for the squeezed middle

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.

Reports

The good life: countries

This report looks at how to move beyond GDP as the dominant measure of economic success and introduces the new CPP Inclusive Growth Country Index.

Press releases

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.