{"id":32657,"date":"2022-03-01T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32657"},"modified":"2022-03-01T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:31:36","slug":"northern-leaders-put-culture-at-centre-of-regions-post-pandemic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=32657","title":{"rendered":"Northern leaders put culture at centre of region\u2019s post-pandemic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-32658\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/The_Case_For_Culture_010322-237x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/>A post-pandemic, pre-Levelling Up Paper, report on recovery that makes the case for the cultural icons of Northern England to be a catalyst for levelling up wins a rare show of cross-party unity.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8230;calls for culture to be \u2018embedded\u2019 in the government\u2019s levelling-up white paper&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.a rare show of cross-party unity has called for all of the cultural icons of northern England to be a catalyst to rebuild the region and rebalance it with the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">Ministers will join Labour council leaders and mayors to launch the first report of its kind on Wednesday, which sets out in detail how culture could and should be a central part of the region\u2019s post-pandemic recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">Recommendations in a ten-point action plan include devolving funding decisions to a regional level from London; encouraging more strategic partnerships and less competition between different areas; and greater investment in next-generation creative talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">It calls for culture to be \u201cembedded\u201d in the government\u2019s levelling-up white paper&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The report has been prepared for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/northernculture.org.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">northern culture all-party parliamentary group\u00a0<\/a>jointly chaired by James Daly, Conservative MP for Bury North, and Julie Elliott, Labour MP for Sunderland Central.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/19\/northern-leaders-to-put-culture-at-centre-of-regions-post-pandemic-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff4b33;\" href=\"https:\/\/northernculture.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NCAPPG-The-Case-for-Culture-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View and download<\/a>\u00a0the report, <em>The Case for Culture, What Northern Culture Needs to Rebuild, Rebalance and Recover<\/em> &#8211;<em> Levelling-up Inquiry Report and Recommendations<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post-pandemic, pre-Levelling Up Paper, report on recovery that makes the case for the cultural icons of Northern England to be a catalyst for levelling up wins a rare show of cross-party unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32659,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32657\/revisions\/32659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}