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• Creative industries: a guide to investing
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• Doing a local economic assessment

Economic development and regeneration

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• 100 ways to help the high street Last updated 5 August 2010

  100 ways to help the high street is a collection of schemes which, if implemented in the right place at the right time, can have a positive effect on town centres.

• Local Enterprise Partnerships Last updated 16 December 2010

  Discover how LEPs will look to provide strategic leadership to set out local economic priorities. They will help rebalance the economy towards the private sector by creating the right environment for business growth.

• What a local council can do Last updated 18 February 2010

  Guidance for councils to tackle economic development and regeneration

• Worklessness Last updated 9 June 2011

  Read new draft guidance that outlines what councils can do to improve their communities’ skills and create job opportunities. Join our worklessness CoP and send us your comments on the draft by 5 March.

• Partnership working and community Last updated 16 November 2010

  Working effectively on economic development and regeneration requires close partnership working with a range of other agencies. It is important to understand your partners.

• Creative industries: a guide to investing Last updated 27 May 2010

  The creative industries are increasingly recognised as vital to the health of the UK economy. This resource aims to help councils make decisions about whether to invest in creative industries and, if so, how.

• Recession Last updated 20 April 2010

  Recession case studies and guides.

• Community economic development Last updated 9 June 2011

  Community economic development is a broad term that seeks to cover a variety of ‘bottom up’ community enterprise in the not-for-profit sector.

• How to do a local economic assessment Last updated 17 April 2012

  How to do a local economic assessment. Guidance designed by local authorities for the sector on behalf of the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) and Planning Advisory Service (PAS).