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Jonathan Carr-West

Jonathan Carr-West

Dr Jonathan Carr-West is chief executive of the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)

Articles by Jonathan Carr-West

Honouring the Ukrainian spirit

By Jonathan Carr-West | 15 March 2022

The events in Ukraine have provided a timely reminder of how important our democracy is and how m...

Missions misstep 

By Jonathan Carr-West | 04 February 2022

When it comes to its 12 missions, the Levelling Up White Paper does not really enable the multipl...

A whole lot of papers

By Jonathan Carr-West | 13 December 2021

December has been a tale of two White Papers. The one that is and the one that is yet to be, writ...

Making the right connections

By Jonathan Carr-West | 09 November 2021

COP26 has raised awareness of the actions climate change requires. Dr Jonathan Carr-West argues ...

Let's ground levelling up

By Jonathan Carr-West | 05 October 2021

The LGiU has set out the six core principles that must inform the approach to levelling up from n...

Tough, uphill work lies ahead

By Jonathan Carr-West | 31 August 2021

We’ve had half a decade of strategic drift in local government policy, says Dr Jonathan Carr-West...

It's not all about the money

By Jonathan Carr-West | 26 July 2021

It is dangerous if we let the discussion about the reform of social care become exclusively about...

Place is the crucial lens

By Jonathan Carr-West | 23 June 2021

Dr Jonathan Carr-West looks at how we might make levelling up and devolution work together.

Levelling up transformatively

By Jonathan Carr-West | 19 May 2021

The tension between two very different approaches to levelling up could be 'a significant structu...

Local elections 2021: Look behind the big story

By Jonathan Carr-West | 11 May 2021

A closer look at the Super Thursday outcomes reveals a series of more complex stories, and sugges...