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Understanding the Economic Position and Prospects for your Town

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The aim of the session is to provide an overview of how authorities should analyse their towns performance in the context of drivers for change affecting UK towns and cities.

This panel discussion will explore trends such as ageing population, changing nature of work, and deindustrialization. It will also discuss logic frameworks that can be applied to analyse the impact of these trends on economic outcomes.

About the speakers:

The panel discussion will include:

Chris Tunnell, who will chair the meeting, is a town planner and economist with significant experience in planning processes and economics.

Ros Vose is a foresight specialist with expertise in developing vision and strategies and the analysis of future trends.

Rob Turner who is an economic analyst within Grant Thornton with expertise in large data analysis and intelligent insight into data.

Richard Hadfield is a skills expert who will provide his expertise on labour market change

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