ECONOMIC GROWTH

The art of preventing a brain drain

Paul Shevlin suggests arts and culture have a part to play in attracting young residents to come to rural areas

Like many rural and northern authorities, we seem to lose a lot of our bright young people to bigger cities so we're looking to reduce the talent drain.

Alongside this work we have been focusing on attracting and retaining more families to live in Craven and the Yorkshire Dales National Park and it's been great to see some real progress with those initiatives in recent months

Paul Shevlin

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