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SUMMARY:True North 2016: Realising the Northern Powerhouse
DESCRIPTION:On Friday 8th July\, ResPublica’s inaugural North conference Finding True North hosted over 250 leaders from across the North at the beautiful Lowry Theatre\, Salford. Covered by Manchester Evening News\, The Guardian\, The Times\, FT and on BBC Daily Politics\, the conference saw the launch of A Manifesto for the North mapping out the next steps for the Northern Powerhouse agenda and placing identity\, culture\, collaboration\, and innovation at its heart. \nWith keynote speakers including Greg Clark MP\, James Wharton MP and Dan Jarvis MP\, the conference and manifesto marks the start of our dedicated ResPublica North unit. \nFinding True North was an enormous success and will be returning in 2017 after welcoming over 50 representatives of Local Authorities from across the North\, more than 100 leaders from industry and academia\, dozens of voices from communities and civil society\, and a wealth of national and local journalists. \n\n\n\nAgenda \nThe Government’s Northern Powerhouse concept has unlocked the door to prosperity outside of the South-East\, and given the keys to regional leaders. A key test of this political move’s success will be how it translates into real change for the people who live there. Progress can not be judged solely on higher living standards or the number of jobs created. We must ensure that greater freedoms for citizens aren’t just economic\, but instead that this once in a generation opportunity enables communities to rebuild and society to improve. \nSuccessful cities and regions are also powerhouses for new ideas\, technological innovation and cultural creativity. Finding True North will foster debate as to how we re-awaken and nurture these capacities in our northern cities. We’ll be exploring whether there is an underpinning sense of identity and connection around which the North can build not only economic prosperity\, but forge a cultural and intellectual renaissance. \nThe North is filled with tremendous potential\, backed by a rich history of cultural diversity and intellectual curiosity. When taken together\, the region is home to a number of clear and powerful identities. Newly devolved powers should enable leaders to make use of these distinct identities\, defining a local region’s priorities and needs\, and fostering the pride that will rejuvenate rather than deter. The North has a proud history of creativity\, entrepreneurship\, independence and industry. Enabling collaboration between its businesses\, sectors\, communities and public services\, and fostering constructive and positive dialogue between newly invigorated and empowered local leaders and those who they are elected to serve. \nNorthern cities have for the most part moved to embrace the opportunities extended to them to in the Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill. There is widespread agreement that ‘city deals’ will enable regeneration and improvement\, attracting inward investment necessary for creating a successful future for all its 22 million inhabitants. Without greater effort to collaborate and foster unity\, the region would be unable to escape historic under-performance of its economy and the Government’s ambition for a Northern Powerhouse will be left unfulfilled. \nResPublica’s trail-blazing report Devo Max – Devo Manc spearheaded the debate about city devolution\, arguing that Northern cities and regions developing broader autonomy would be a pre-condition for renewal. Finding True North will platform this discussion as the North embarks on an exciting age of opportunity. \n\nA Manifesto for the North \n \nLaunched on the 8th July at our flagship Finding True North conference in Salford\, A Manifesto for the North is our vision for the region harnessing further devolved powers; culturally vibrant and with the benefits of economic growth accrued to all. \nCommenting on the manifesto\, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP\, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government\, said: “This is an important and thought-provoking Manifesto that deserves to be carefully considered. The Government will work closely with partners across the North to devolve more power to people and places in order to realise our ambitious plans to build a Northern Powerhouse.” \nMinister for the Northern Powerhouse James Wharton MP added: “I welcome the active debate around the future direction and evolution of the Northern Powerhouse. Congratulations to ResPublica for this contribution\, it is an important project and has the potential to deliver real long term benefits to our economy.” \nThere have been too many platitudes written about the North\, and too many partial and piecemeal policies that have done little to reverse the decades of decline. For years\, a combination of indifference and fatalism has left local leaders with a monopoly on power content to administer decline\, and thus they must share some of the blame. \nOf all the post-war innovations and attempts at reversing abject decline\, the Northern Powerhouse has come closest to what is needed. With its mixture of place-based devolution and connectivity\, it has at last created an international brand and vision that has shifted the perception of what might be possible. In this way it has finally created the vehicle that might serve as a conduit for massive private sector investment. \nThese are welcome developments\, but we must go further and faster. For instance\, on transport we must get going on a direct high-speed east to west line. More generally\, the city-region devolution deals should be seen as an opening not a final offer from central government – with the decentralisation of investment decisions greatly expanded in scope and scale. \nPost-Brexit\, we must not lose the north once more. We must maintain the urgent reinvention of our country. We must demand from those who would be our leaders that they mirror their paeans to social justice with a New Deal for the North\, a new deal equal in scale and ambition to what FDR offered a struggling America in the 1930’s. \nNothing less will do\, nothing less will deliver. During the 19th century life in the North was fundamentally changed as prosperity and widespread economic growth was attained. It has achieved this transformation once before and it can do so again. ResPublica offers the ideas herein as its contribution to the promise\, and resurrection\, of the North. \n\nOur #NorthernPowerhouse conference in Salford's beautiful Lowry Theatre #TrueNorth with SoS @GregClarkMP pic.twitter.com/FRq4kKTqqT \n— ResPublica (@res_publica) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\nLabour should lead the debate on how we build the Northern Powerhouse @DanJarvisMP #truenorth \n— ResPublica (@res_publica) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\n#truenorth best sound bite so far @Phillip_Blond "Brexit vote was\, arguably\, the world's biggest vote against globalisation" \n— TonyStacey (@TonyStacey) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\n.@res_publica #truenorth needs one voice @Phillip_Blond given us the vision\, #northern leaders now need to run with it #NorthernPowerhouse \n— Dr Hakim Yadi OBE (@hakim_yadi) July 8\, 2016 \n \nhttps://twitter.com/ClaireBrai/status/751347492495757313 \n\nJames Wharton closes @res_publica event by outlining what the Gvt has done & will do for the #NorthernPowerhouse pic.twitter.com/aY0PXbna90 \n— Afsaneh Farzaneh (@AfsanehF1) July 8\, 2016 \n \n\nA cracking piece\, brimming with ideas. A Manifesto for the North https://t.co/F9kKCfsCKX via @res_publica @QuatroPR @GaryG_Atkins \n— Simon Collingwood (@CollingwoodSK) July 9\, 2016 \n \n\nSchedule: \nRegistration: 09.30 \nWelcome & keynotes: 10.15 \n\nKrishnan Guru-Murthy\, journalist\nRt Hon Greg Clark MP\, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government\nPhillip Blond\, Director of ResPublica\n\nWhat are the problems of the North? 11.30 \n\nKrishnan Guru-Murthy\, journalist\nSir Richard Leese\, Leader of Manchester City Council\nDan Jarvis MP\, Member for Parliament for Barnsley Central\nIvan Lewis MP\, Manchester Mayoral Candidate\n\n — Lunch — \nBreakout Sessions: 13.30 – 15.35 \n\nEnergy – The Northern POWERhouse\nMark Atherton\, Director of Environment\, Greater Manchester Combined Authority\nMichelle Hubert\, Head of Energy and Climate Change\, Confederation of British Industries\nDr John Idris Jones\, Chair\, Snowdonia Enterprise Zone\nCaroline Julian\, Deputy Director\, ResPublica\,\nTom Mundy\, Managing Director\, NuScale\n\n\nHealth – Addressing Northern Health Inequality\nEmily Crawford\, Principal Research Consultant\nProf Sir Ian Gilmore\, Chairman Liverpool Mayoral Health Commission\nProf Paul Johnstone\, Regional Director North of England\, Public Health England\nAlex Whinnom\, Chief Executive\, Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation\n\n\nInnovation – Opportunity and Innovation in the North\nAndrew Bounds\, Northern Correspondent\, Financial Times\nClaire Braithwaite\, Tech Advisor\, Manchester Growth Company\nChi Onwurah MP\, Shadow Tech Minister; MP for Newcastle Central\nRob Mukherjee\, Head of North West Regional Business\, Vodafone\n\n\nTransport – The Northern Engine of Growth\nJoe Anderson\, Mayor of Liverpool\nArif Ansari\, Political Editor North West\, BBC News\nCllr Judith Blake\, Leader\, Leeds City Council\nPhilip Graham\, Chief Executive\, National Infrastructure Commission\nDuncan Sim\, Senior Policy and Projects Officer\, ResPublica\n\n\nEducation – The Education Divide\nCllr John Merry CBE\, Deputy City Mayor\, Salford City Council\nMark Morrin\, Principal Research Consultant\, ResPublica\nLucy Powell MP\, MP for Manchester Central\nProf Mike Thomas\, Vice-chancellor\, Universit of Central Lancashire\nAndy Westwood\, Chair of Advisory Board\, LLAKES (Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies) at UCL Institute of Education\n\n\nHousing – The Homes the North Needs\nCharlotte Harrison\, Executive Director\, Northern Housing Consortium\nMark Henderson\, Chief Executive\, Home Group; Chair\, Homes for the North\nPaul Unger\, Editor\, Place North West\nAdam Wildman\, Principal Research Consultant\, ResPublica\n\nFinding True North: 16.15 – 17.20 \n\nJames Wharton MP\, Minister for the Northern Powerhouse\nPhillip Blond\, Director of ResPublica\n\n  \n\nConference partners: \n \n 
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/finding-true-north/
LOCATION:The Lowry Theatre\, Pier 8\, The Quays\, Media City\, Salford\, Manchester\, M50 3AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Prosperity,Society,Virtue
ORGANIZER;CN="Elliott Mears":MAILTO:elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk
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SUMMARY:Defeating Inequality Conference
DESCRIPTION:As we launch our new Defeating Inequality Commission\, ResPublica will host leading politicians\, influencers and thinkers to discuss the causes of economic\, social and cultural inequality. \nwith \nEconomic Inequality: Sir Keir Starmer MP\, Member for Holborn and St Pancras\, former Director of Public Prosecutions; Torsten Bell\, Director\, Resolution Foundation \nSocial Inequality: Tristram Hunt MP\, former Shadow Education Secretary; Baroness Shephard\, former Education Secretary\, Deputy Chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission \nCultural Inequality: Loyd Grossman\, Television Presenter and Chairman of the Heritage Alliance; Caroline Norbury\, Chief Executive\, Creative England \nThis event is invitation only. For more information\, please contact events@respublica.org.uk
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/confronting-inequality-conference/
LOCATION:Unconfirmed Venue\, London
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SUMMARY:Eradicating Fuel Poverty
DESCRIPTION:with \nAngus MacNeil MP\, Chair\, Energy Select Committee \nThis event is by invitation only. Please contact vanessa.schneider@respublica.org.uk for more information \n 
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/eradicating-fuel-poverty/
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SUMMARY:Backing Beauty Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Held on 20th July 2016 as part of the work of ResPublica’s Backing Beauty Commission\, this roundtable focused on how to encourage local authority investment in the public realm at a time of fiscal restraint\, and how to make the most of the considerable resources and enthusiasm of ordinary citizens in shaping their locality. The discussion was attended by participants including Simon Gallagher\, Director of Planning at DCLG; Professor Tony Travers; and representatives from the Department of Health and a number of city councils. \nThe discussion identified a number of barriers to the creation of a more beautiful public realm\, of which the two principal challenges were the perception of beauty as a luxury add-on and a lack of resource at the local level to invest in the creation and ongoing upkeep of beautiful spaces and places. The value of harnessing a range of deliberative techniques and new and emerging digital technologies in deciding what public realm improvements should be prioritised was stressed. \nIt was argued more innovative uses of existing policy tools such as the Community Infrastructure Levy and Business Improvement Districts\, together with original thinking about how the state can harness the energy and creativity of citizens through handing down responsibility for creating and maintaining beautiful public spaces such as community gardens\, should be considered to help resolve these barriers. In areas where little development is currently planned or ongoing\, Social Impact Bonds were suggested as a way to finance this investment. \nTo find out more about the project associated with this event please contact Duncan Sim\, Senior Policy and Projects Officer\, at duncan.sim@respublica.org.uk.
URL:https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/backing-beauty-roundtable/
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