While the pandemic seems at last to be receding, another crisis is threatening to engulf our health services. As we learn to live with the virus itself, we now also need to address one of its most damaging legacies - the growing number of those experiencing mental health issues.

Justine discusses the Government’s response to the Augar review and how it could be a backward step on levelling up.

In her latest blog, Anne Milton discusses a new report which has highlighted the significant and persistent health inequalities experienced by people from ethnic minority backgrounds in the UK. And whether it will be the tipping point for urgent action.

In our latest blog, Rt Hon Lord Walney reflects on the Government’s recent White Paper on Levelling Up and the importance of of assessing progress and measuring outcomes, based on improved data and transparency.

In our latest blog, Anne Milton discusses the fundamental links between health, education and skills, and the urgent need to address health inequalities.

During National Apprenticeship Week, Justine Greening discusses the need to free up the Apprenticeship Levy so employers can transform skills for a post-pandemic workforce.

In our latest blog, Seema Kennedy OBE discussed how as our population grows and changes, so does the demographic of those experiencing loneliness and the importance of connecting up communities.

Sodexo has today published a report by the Rt Hon Justine Greening’s Purpose Coalition which examines its current impact on levelling up and how it can go further in the future. 

Justine Greening talks about the opportunity crisis that is facing the UK and how committed members of the Purpose Coalition are doing their bit to solve it.

One of the country’s leading recruitment specialists, Pertemps, today announced its partnership with the Purpose Coalition on a Levelling Up Impact Report which will set out its contribution to the levelling up agenda in the UK.

Justine Greening shares her thoughts on the recently launched Levelling Up White Paper.

“With the government’s long anticipated White Paper on levelling up about to be published, it is worth reflecting on how much the landscape has changed since it was first mooted”

In her latest blog, Anne Milton discusses new research that has estimated that persistent ill-health in England’s most left behind communities costs the country almost £30 billion a year in lost productivity.

GB Railfreight (GBRf), the best performing rail freight operator in the UK, today announced its partnership with the Purpose Coalition on a Levelling Up Action Plan which will set out its contribution to the levelling up agenda in the UK.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation (NCIC) has joined a growing number of organisations by committing to a new system of measuring social impact.

In her latest blog, Justine Greening discusses the importance of taking the time to properly evaluate and measure a project.

In this issue, Robbie Moore - MP for Keighley and Parliamentary Co-Chair of the Levelling Up Goals explains progress taking place to level-up on the ground.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has joined a growing number of purpose-led organisations by committing to a new set of levelling up measurements.

Amazon has become the latest organisation to feature in the Levelling Up Goals seminar series, discussing how it is delivering opportunities for communities across the country and how business more broadly can drive social mobility.

Rising to the challenge are new banks which are changing the status quo. Aldermore, a multi-specialist lending bank, aims to open up access to those people and businesses who find it difficult to get finance and advice from the traditional financial sector.