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The new Government will need to be radical early

'The good news is that local government has the expertise to enable financial sustainability, working alongside a willing and joined-up Whitehall,' says Nicole Wood

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Levelling up has been dropped from the now renamed Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. 

Whatever the name, reduction of geographical inequality is still a cornerstone of the new Government and there is a commitment to ‘develop an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty'.

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