Progressive Levelling Up

Progressive Levelling Up

IPPR and IPPR North are undertaking a major project to set out how to upgrade levelling up and rebalance power, wealth, and opportunity between and within our regions, with the voice of people at its centre.

The first phase of the project reported in September 2023 and drew on participatory work from across Hastings, Stoke-on-Trent, and Redcar, as well wider conversations with citizens, leaders and experts from across the UK.

If you would like to get in touch about our ongoing work in this area or are interested in becoming part of it, please contact Zoë Billingham at z.billingham@ippr.org.

Latest

  1. Supporting the status quo: How the taxation of wealth in the UK grows regional divides

    The new government’s primary mission is to deliver economic growth, rooted in an ambition for prosperity and opportunity to be accessible across the UK.
  2. A high-up view of Leeds city centre: a bustling city with a train over a viaduct in the goreground and the city and lots of green buses behind

    State of the North 2024: Charting the course for a decade of renewal

    The North’s communities are ambitious for a better future, but face systemic and pronounced inequalities. Gaps in power, wealth, opportunity, and health result in shorter, sicker, less fulfilling lives.
  3. A group of people in a UK community centre

    Healthy places, prosperous lives

    The UK is getting poorer and sicker, and this trend is not equal across the country. Poorer and sicker areas are getting poorer and sicker the most quickly.

  4. Parallel lives: Regionally rebalancing wealth, power and opportunity

    This report addresses the urgent need to reduce regional inequality in the UK, and distribute wealth, power, and opportunity more fairly across the country.

Meet the team

Meet the team behind our Progressive Levelling Up Project.

Further content for Progressive Levelling Up