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In Sheffield City Region, the development of the Strategic Economic Plan [SEP] included a clear aim to ensure that it reflected and supported principles of inclusive growth.
Having involved communities in previous public-facing campaigns in the past, Cornwall Council was in a strong position to engage residents in the devolution agenda.
The North East England Chamber of Commerce (The Chamber), which represents over 3,000 businesses from all sectors and covers two local enterprise partnership areas, has been working closely with the business community to bring the benefits of devolution to the region.
West Sussex County Council, in conjunction with 25 member authorities- has established seven key work streams to reflect their devolved powers and is framing their narrative around them.
As the first deal to go through in November 2014, Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has spent time laying the foundations for devolution and building the groundwork for its communications activity to ensure the authority gets the basics right.
Bringing together seven local authorities, one local enterprise partnership and a number of delivery organisations under the umbrella of a single combined authority throws up many challenges. Find out how the Combined Authority overcame these issues to put strong governance in place.
Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council - one of the six authority members of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority - has kept devolution high on the agenda, updating staff through regular communications from the chief executive.
GoCA was made up of representatives from local community groups in Govanhill and was held accountable for its spend by the local community. The group was supported by Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme in Scotland, which helped facilitate the participatory budgeting process and bridged the perceived gap between public sector workers and GoCA members.