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blog Mar 2019 Spaces and services

What happens when the social contract is being ripped up?

Britain’s towns need more than just new economic investment. Matt Leach, chief executive of Local Trust, comments on the government’s new £1.6b fund based on findings from the first draft of cutting-edge research by OCSI

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