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Opinion: Masterplanners or cartoonists?

30 July 2004

I had intended to write about the amazing decision of Rhodri Morgan, first minister of Wales, to abolish the respected Welsh Development Agency without consulting anyone except his conscience - I said recently how interesting my homeland was becoming - when my attention was drawn to masterplanners. Masterplanners! Don't you just love 'em? Don't get me wrong - I don't doubt their quality. They must be good because a) they cost the earth and b) they have the word 'master' at the start of their name - which I assume is not self-allocated but comes from years of dedication to their craft followed by due recognition by an awarding body of their professional peers.

Opinion: Act now, new commission later

30 July 2004

Government plans to combine the different equality bodies into a single Commission on Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) have been hampered by the announcement from the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) that it refuses to go along with this new structure. Race equality groups are concerned that hard won rights will be diluted, with racial justice playing second fiddle to other 'competing' inequalities.

Opinion: Gordon's poverty push should be wary of stress

30 July 2004

Gordon Brown is keen on childcare: evidently, personal experience is a great teacher. But he could be on the horns of a dilemma. In his Joseph Rowntree Memorial Lecture, Our Children are Our Future, he proudly proclaimed the Government's aim: to cut child poverty by a quarter by 2005 and by half by 2010. This, he argued from research, is the surest way to improve children's life chances. And - research again - in the long term, pre-school early learning will help not only these children, but future generations.

Interview: The alchemist turning steel to gold

30 July 2004

Ever since Bob Lane headed up its development corporation in the 1990s, Liverpool's Speke-Garston area has been a byword for regeneration. Naomi Lindsay asks him if he can work the same magic in the steel town of Corby "When I left Liverpool, I wanted a new challenge. I didn't realise it would be this hard," says Bob Lane. And this is a man who, over a 20-year career in regeneration, has faced many challenges. Most notably, as the chief executive of the urban development corporation in Liverpool's Speke-Garston area, he was tasked with turning around the neglected economy of the second most deprived ward in the country. His new role, as chief executive of urban regeneration company (URC) Catalyst Corby, is clearly no walkover.

Analysis: Time for a sharper focus on our goals

30 July 2004

Performance measurement

Economic Development: EU-backed training aids job prospects

30 July 2004

A European fund aimed at improving job and training prospects is helping people to improve their chances of finding work, according to research.

Economic Development: Back-to-back tours

30 July 2004

Local people in Birmingham have been given the chance to retrain and take part in a celebration of the city's history in a restoration programme by charity the National Trust. People have been recruited as volunteer tour guides for the Back to Backs project, following training at South Birmingham College. The Back to Backs are traditional 18th-century houses and businesses that were literally built 'back-to-back'. The college and the National Trust have developed an accredited 30-hour training programme which gives the volunteers an Open College Network Level 2 qualification in tour guiding skills.

Economic Development: European cities team up to cut deprivation

30 July 2004

An inter-European partnership to promote enterprise in deprived urban areas of London was launched last week.

Economic Development: Crossrail could face an £8bn funding gap

30 July 2004

London's proposed Crossrail line could suffer from a funding gap of up to £8 billion, a feasibility study into the scheme warned last week.

Economic Development brief: Liverpool Chamber of Commerce launches broadband project

30 July 2004

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry has launched a broadband project. The Greater Merseyside broadband project, MerseyBroadband, offers firms the chance to see what broadband can do for them. The project is funded by the North-West Regional Development Agency, with support from the public-private partnership Greater Merseyside Digital Development Agency. For further details, (tel) 0151 285 1400.