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My top 4 policy and research highlights 🏥 Public services: Drawing on our experience of the #OnePublicEstate program, Steer Economic Development’s evaluation of Local Government Association & the Office of Government Property’s (Cabinet Office) #PlacePilot program kicked off last week. Over the next nine months, we’ll investigate the lessons that can be learnt from the five pilots in reshaping the public estate & integrating public services. We’re looking forward to working with local teams across the West Midlands, South Yorkshire, Derby, Thames Gateway, & Hull. Rebecca van Zanten James Hopton Isabella Thompson Read 👉 https://lnkd.in/eNV8Z4Ni 🗳 Elections: With local elections coming up, most 👀 are on whether existing The Conservative Party mayors in West Midlands & Tees Valley will hold on to their mayoral seats. Also on May 2nd, with local elections taking place in a large proportion of #PrimaryUrbanAreas, Centre for Cities's Jessica T. published a blog on the implications for Bolton, Bristol, Hull, Norwich, Oxford, Plymouth, Salford & Sheffield. Read 👉 https://lnkd.in/eYMuTWrV 💡 Innovation accelerator: Can an innovation partnership between a city region & central government generate synergies & catalyse outcomes that deliver the highest quality R&D of national & international standing, alongside strong local economic impact? The answer is ✔ according to Dean Cook, MBA, FRSB Executive Director for Place & Levelling up, Innovate UK. From my perspective, it will be vital that 'impacts' can be clearly demonstrated to enable the rollout of this approach as a standard, not an exceptional, component of any #devolution deal. Find out more about the programme, which has injected £100m into 26 high-potential projects in three areas & its blueprint 👉 https://lnkd.in/eeej6huU ⚡ Greener energy: How can we #decarbonise #electricity without disadvantaging poorer families? That was the question the Resolution Foundation posed in its latest blog. Inevitably with more 💷 we must address the issue of equitable pricing to ensure generation contracts remain affordable, to protect lower-income households from potential cost ⬆, as well as consider state intervention in modernizing the grid. Read 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTsQwDyU Steer #GreenEnergy #PublicServices #PublicSector #InnovationAccelerator #MayoralElections #LocalElections Image credit: Canva