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17 Dec 2020
RSN responds to Provisional Settlement 2021-22
RSN reaction to Provisional Local Government Financial Settlement The Rural Services Network welcomes the news of an increase in Rural Services Delivery Grant in the Provisional Local Government Finance Settlement...
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14 Dec 2020
Spending Review 2020 – Gigabit capable broadband funding
In our analysis of the Spending Review 2020 through a Rural Lens (referred to in last week’s Bulletin and available here) we reported on the Spending Review decision regarding the...
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14 Dec 2020
Rural, Remote and At Risk – Rural Health
The Nuffield Trust has published a briefing which explores the impact the pandemic has had on the delivery of rural and remote health services in England, highlighting the underlying challenges faced...
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14 Dec 2020
Rural Review of National Infrastructure Strategy – Fairer Faster Greener Growth
The National Infrastructure Strategy was launched on 25th November at the same time as the one year Spending Review In recent weeks the Rural Services Network has published a ‘Rural...
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14 Dec 2020
Unlocking the contribution of rural enterprise to ‘levelling up’
The Open Access Government feature the thoughts of Professor Jeremy Phillipson, Director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise and Paddy Bradley, CEO of Swindon and Wiltshire LEP on unlocking the...
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14 Dec 2020
Funding gap ‘devastates’ rural bus services
Transport Network has reported that remote bus services saw journeys fall by 97 million last year due to a £348 million funding gap The new report from the County Councils...
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14 Dec 2020
Church of England to provide teacher-training in rural schools in new partnership with Teach First
Church Times and The Times Educational Supplement have reported that trainee teachers are to be sent into primary schools in more deprived rural areas as part of a plan to...
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14 Dec 2020
Tory councillors join call for Government planning rethink
Housing Today has reported that countryside campaigners have joined with more than 2,000 local councillors to sign a letter to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick MP (Con) opposing the Government’s planning...
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14 Dec 2020
£1 million made available for charities by new Ofgem carbon emissions reduction fund
Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme launches its new Carbon Emissions Reduction Fund The fund will support charity initiatives that reduce the climate change impact associated with energy use. Managed...
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14 Dec 2020
Positive News from a small rural village in Somerset
The villagers of Stoke Saint Gregory on the Somerset Levels, are in high spirits, as the Heart of The Village Project, (HOTV ) is reaching another significant milestone with bringing their...
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