Most of us now check a phone rather than a timetable. Where’s the bus, how long until it comes, is the tram running, what’s the quickest way across town. It
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What happens when we start to see how money really moves through our communities? Local economies are under pressure. Budgets are tight, inequality is rising, and yet huge amounts of
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You may have noticed that the Indices of Deprivation for England were updated and released in November 2025, and this has given us an opportunity to revisit a project that
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Two weeks ago, I was fortunate to attend the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Euskadi, Spain as part of the UK delegation—a mix of government and civil
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Over the years ODM has researched into the correlation between ward-level democracy and deprivation to understand if it is an indicator of healthy democratic representation, and if over time, reveals