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Professor Graeme Atherton, head of the Centre for Inequality and Levelling Up at the University of West London gives an analysis of the second round of levelling up funding and explores what more needs to be done.

Scion Mastery explore the 4 key reasons why UK Universities are struggling to attract top talent in a crowded marketplace. This is the first in a four part series.

The UK government has announced a new Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy, backed by £200 million over the next two years, aimed at improving support for vulnerable children and families.

Terence Carvalho, regional director of Delivered Social, has won the Shaping Portsmouth business award 2023 at the Shaping Portsmouth Annual Conference.

Emily Aklan has been recognised as one of this year’s most exceptional women in business at the second annual Great British Businesswoman Awards. Emily, CEO at Serenity Welfare was honoured as Social Enterprise Businesswoman of the Year.

The UK government has announced its ambitious plans to regulate cryptoasset activities, providing confidence and clarity to both consumers and businesses. This move delivers on the Prime Minister’s plan to grow the economy by embracing technological change and innovation while protecting consumers.

The UK government has announced its Environmental Improvement Plan 2023, which outlines its vision to restore nature, improve environmental quality, and increase prosperity in the country.

The UK government has launched a £1 million fund aimed at improving the health and welfare of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the self-employed.

Working people on Universal Credit in Great Britain will receive a boost in support to their earnings starting this spring. Over 120,000 low-income workers will be the beneficiaries of tailored support, as new regulations that came into effect on January 30 will now make it possible.

The chief executive of NOCN Group, Graham Hasting-Evans, believes that the UK urgently needs a Sustainable Skills System, which is properly funded, agile, and responsive to the needs of the digital and green economy, supporting the implementation of a National Skills Strategy.

Science Minister George Freeman has announced the formal establishment of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), an independent body that aims to create transformational research programs with the potential to create new technological capabilities for the benefit of humanity.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has called on businesses to invest in the UK and promised long-term thinking to make the UK the next Silicon Valley. He outlined a vision to drive for growth as one of the government’s five priorities – doing so by encouraging enterprise, tackling poor productivity, and getting more people into better paid jobs right across the country.

Terence Carvalho, Regional Director of Delivered Social, Portsmouth, has been shortlisted for the Entrepreneur of the Year prize at the 2023 Portsmouth News Business Excellence Awards.

The UK fishing industry is set to benefit from an initial £2 million investment to trial new, greener engines and help create a safer, more sustainable fishing fleet as the latest round of the £100m UK Seafood Fund opens on January 27th, 2022.