As we close off another year here at CLES, we're pulling our highlights out from the #CLES2024 selection box - including this appearance by Tom Lloyd Goodwin on BBC's Sunday Politics to talk about the budget back in March: https://buff.ly/41oPPva

Post-Christmas, you can be forgiven if spending is the last thing on your mind, but how about...procurement spending? Next out of the #CLES2024 selection box, two briefs from our own Conrad Parke for the Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre - https://buff.ly/3ZJoH97

Planning was never far from the headlines this year and next out of the #CLES2024 selection box is this corker of a paper from Sean Benstead, looking at how some local authorities are working developers hard to make sure they contribute positive outcomes for place: https://buff.ly/3BhM9B3

Is devolution good for your health?

Not a pre-emptive new-year-new-you offer 😉, but another pick from our #CLES2024 selection box: a joint paper with @thekingsfund.bsky.social, w/early insights from our work on how English devo is affecting health inequalities: https://buff.ly/4f6dTGp

How's that for a stat? We did lots of analysis this year, but perhaps none illustrates the legacy of austerity quite as starkly as this. Learn more about the calculation and why it is important here ➡️ https://buff.ly/3ZkfKS0

#CLES2024

Not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4️⃣ articles in TheMJ coming out of the #CLES2024 selelection box next, each of them covering one of the 4 #CWBConversations we held in November - read them all here: https://buff.ly/4f8l8O3

#BoxingDay - as you lay back on the sofa and contemplate whether to have another choc, look back to busier times, with our #CLES2024 event highlights - including this clutch (gaggle? flock?) of mayors at #LPC24 - write up from @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social here 🔗 https://buff.ly/4f6FFmb

As Christmas Eve draws to a close, draw close to the fire and rummage in the #CLES2024 selection box to reveal a snowy Scottish scene with this blog from @naomimason.bsky.social - the first of her regular updates on the new economy policy and practice scene in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://buff.ly/3D9hhmH

Alongside our papers, this year we've released lots of practice guides, including this one on community wealth building for new cllrs to coincide with the local elections (which then got massively overshadowed by a certain other election...) ➡️ https://buff.ly/3OP3oN7 #CLES2024

First out of the CLES selection box from all the way back in March, Women's Work - a joint exploration with the @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social and @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social on how we can reshape local economic strategy so that it centres the needs of women 🔗https://buff.ly/49Avsxm #CLES2024

Ho, ho, ho 🎅

The CLES social team are taking a well earned break for xmas, but to keep you going, we've whipped up a selection box of goodies so you can catch up on our favourite work from the last 12 months...keep an eye out for #CLES2024 posts over the next few weeks.