Andy Burnham has pledged to fix England’s broken social care system. Heather Stewart explains why it matters so much to families like hers

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Read INE's blog on how evidence, research and sector expertise are helping shape the North East’s Local Growth Plan and support growth across priority sectors.

Invest Newcastlewww.investnewcastle.cominvest@experiencenee.co.uk  For more than a decade, Invest Newcastle has led a delegation of public and private sector organisations to MIPIM… | North East ...

Discover expert tips, real-world case studies, and actionable steps to get management and political leaders on board, ensuring sustainable community engagement and long-term project success.

Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Reviewers were 22% less likely to catch flaws in AI-polished drafts. Atlassian's Teamwork Lab found a fix that takes five seconds.

Going on holiday, reading newspapers, having meals out, and seeing friends and family can all help to improve health resilience

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A new charity is being established to widen access to music and creative opportunities for thousands of children and young… | North East | Creative | Culture | Charity | Community | Local Authority | ...

Stop pasting and start thinking. Read why unedited AI summaries are eroding trust in your work and how to build the muscles to improve.

As AI transforms work, leading companies are rethinking workplace design to boost collaboration, learning, innovation, and AI adoption success.

Meat Proxy: Someone who is asked a question, forwards it directly to AI, and gives the AI response back to… | Advice | North East | International | Technology | National | Insight | Artificial Intelli...

Grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends who provide kinship care for children will be paid in a Department for Education scheme that could help around 5,000 vulnerable children and their famili...

Earlier this week I wrote about a hospital chaplain who told me that the families who thanked her most were rarely the ones she had perfect words for. They were the ones she simply asked.

Over recent years, we’ve rightly become better at recognising employees are human beings with lives, responsibilities and challenges beyond work.  But… | Jobs | North East | HR | Recruitmen...

A North East city is set to become one of the UK’s most connected urban centres thanks to a new… | North East | Digital | Technology | Community | Local Authority | Collaboration | Technology |

A leading thinktank has urged major reform to speed up housebuilding around train stations, saying Newcastle is missing out on tens of thousands of potential homes

Cumulative Equality Impact: assessed alone, each budget decision can meet the equality duty. Assessed together, the picture looks very different.

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As the government prepares to review the rates pubs and hotels pay, the deputy leader of Newcastle City Council has said the entire system needs to be changed

UK councils are entering a new three-year budget cycle. Here's why resident engagement is now a legal and financial necessity, not just a nice-to-have.

Generative AI is quickly becoming part of a lot of people’s everyday working life, but what is crucial for business… | Advice | North East | Accounting | International | Opinion | National | Tho...

Courts are quashing decisions split into separate parts. Here's what cumulative impact means for consultation practice.

Imagine you have two months to complete a systematic review on an unfamiliar topic. Faced with the possibility of identifying more relevant papers than you could review in this timeframe, you conside

New education missions launched to open doors for children in the most under-served communities

As a part of the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield, we have been exploring ways of making research more inclusive and accessible, and considering

Embodied knowing is transdisciplinary. Although we might identify its roots in phenomenology, it has been identified in fields as diverse as anthropology, business studies, computing, cognitive neuro

We've added the recently launched Index of Multiple Environmental Deprivation to Local Insight offering exploration of environmental pressure

The role of local government in a future, reformed system of adult social care. Findings from the LGA’s national engagement programme and recommendations for a way forward.

New Bite Back research reveals how major food brands use TikTok and Instagram to promote unhealthy food to young people through social media, trends and memes.

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New report calls for national connected data model to transform children's services

“It doesn’t feel like anybody’s helping you, or leading you,” one young person told us in a workshop earlier this summer. They are not alone in feeling tha

Alan Milburn recently published the interim findings of his independent review into young people and work.  At its heart was a… | Jobs | North East | Training | Employment | Education | Skills |

What is the state of the UK's digital divide? Each year, Good Things Foundation gathers new facts and stats to reveal the reality of digital exclusion.

The LGA Culture, Tourism and Sport Committee is taking an in-depth look at a range of inequalities in activity levels, with the aim of sharing effective practice within the sector. We are seeking your...

Learn the importance of storytelling in marketing and get tips on how to curate content to craft an empathetic, relatable brand.

The London Borough of Newham used community assemblies to identify local priorities and decide how local budget is spent. Click to learn more!

Digital by default consultations can breach the Equality Act if offline residents are excluded. What practitioners need to check.

Citizens’ assemblies add real value. But they cannot discharge a statutory consultation duty or replace lawful public engagement

A write up of Flourishing, together…a regional conversation exploring what we need to flourish in our social leadership roles (April 2026)

Earlier this week, we published our latest living standards modelling, which demonstrated that the price shock from the US-Israel war on Iran threatens to make this the worst parliament on record for ...

The Brown principles and PSED require equality analysis before and during consultation, not after. Here is what that means in practice.