Author: <span>Belal Almassri</span>
15 Mar 2021
Home care issues for people in rural areas
The BBC reports on complaints around social care services in rural areas due to a lack of staff and high mileage costs. More than 80 eligible people in Cornwall currently...
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15 Mar 2021
Government confirms financial support for Shared Rural Network programme
Trade outlets including Computer Weekly have reported this week that the Government has published its transparency notice for the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, including a £500m investment to improve...
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15 Mar 2021
Social Mobility Barometer 2021
Six in ten people believe the pandemic has increased inequality, according to a new Social Mobility Commission poll reported in FE News this week. The 2021 Social Mobility Barometer reveals...
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15 Mar 2021
Rural property prices have risen by 20.8 per cent in the last five years
UK Investor Magazine reports that the average price of a rural property has risen by 20.8 per cent over the last five years, 3.3 per cent higher than in urban...
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08 Mar 2021
Delivering equitable funding for rural areas is critical
Rural Services Network (RSN), CPRE, English Rural Housing Association and Britain’s Leading Edge have called for reform of Government funding, so that it adequately serves rural communities, reports Politics Home...
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08 Mar 2021
UK Budget: the long road to levelling up
Following the chancellor’s delivery of the budget, papers including the Guardian and The Financial Times have reported on calls for the Government to publish the criteria by which £4.8bn of...
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01 Feb 2021
Towards a greener Green Book process
There is a long way to go until rural communities see their fair share of investment as new economic research reveals government spending per person on public infrastructure is 44%...
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31 Dec 2020
Media Coverage – 2020
October 2020 Detailed below is a roundup of the media coverage in October received from the release of a report commissioned by the Rural Services Network, along with CPRE and English...
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01 Nov 2020
Rural Recovery and Revitalisation
Investing in affordable rural housing will level up and turbo charge the rural economy’ according to new research from the Rural Services Network, CPRE (the countryside charity) and English Rural....
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28 Oct 2020
Rural homelessness doubles since 2018 according to rural campaigners
‘Investing in affordable rural housing will level up and turbo charge the rural economy’ according to new research from CPRE, the countryside charity, English Rural and the Rural Services Network...
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