Services

Policy and Strategy Development

Public agencies often need assistance with policy and strategy development initiatives. Urban Futures can provide the expertise and knowledge to help you deliver effective solutions.

Policy and Strategy Services:

• Specialist policy support in the fields of employment and skills; business development and competitiveness; early years and childcare; community based regeneration and community economic development; neighbourhood management and economic development.
• Research and mapping exercises.
• Specialist European knowledge.
• Integration of regeneration funding programmes and funding streams.
• Advice on turning broad strategy into operational delivery.

Examples of recent work include:

• Work on behalf of a London borough to develop an employment strategy through a secondment, funded by the London Development Agency (LDA), from our Employment and Skills specialist team.
• Facilitating, on behalf of the LDA and the North London Strategic Alliance the development of the North London Sub Regional Development Framework, the physical implementation plan for the London Plan in North London.
• Managing the partnership delivery of the Objective 2 Programme in the Upper Lee Valley (ULV) through a Technical Assistance contract with Government Office for London that covers all aspects of the implementation of over £16 million of European Structural Funds.
• Bringing together the priorities of Objective 2 and Single Programme in the ULV to produce a small number of major strategic projects and interventions capable of delivering against public policy objectives.