Secure your place at the Cities Forum 2025!
With the first Cities Forum by Key Cities only weeks away, don’t miss the chance to register and secure your place. Join national government, local leaders and the private sector in Stoke-on-Trent to discuss the role of public-private partnerships in housing delivery, culture-led regeneration, reaching net zero, and unlocking skills and innovation in the UK. […]
Cllr Dimitri Batrouni
Key Cities Manifesto Scorecard
Spring is upon us, and with the new government now in office for nearly nine months, we at Key Cities are delighted that significant progress has been made on the key priorities set out in our #Manifesto. With the support of our member cities, which represent more than 12% of the UK’s population outside of […]
Cllr Mike Stonard covered in the MJ
Cllr Mike Stonard, Leader of Norwich City Council and Key Cities portfolio lead for social care, has been covered in The Municipal Journal this week. The article highlights the recent Key Cities report of recommendations for short and long-term reform for the social care sector. He highlights the Government’s commitment to review the sector via […]
New report on Social Care
In response to the Government’s commitment to stabilising the care sector, Key Cities has launched a social care response document. Our report is rooted in the everyday lives of providers of care services, and considers both the immediate and the long-term recommendations for children and adult services, highlighting the need for comprehensive reform in the […]
Cllr Millie Earl
Millie Earl is a local government politician with 15 years’ experience in political, social and environmental campaigning. She was elected to BCP Council in 2019 and, in 2024, became Leader of the Council having served as Deputy Leader for a year prior. Having been born and lived most of her life in the ward she […]
Key Cities partners with We Made That
Every street corner is inscribed with seen and unseen rights. Who holds these rights? What do they look like? And where do they manifest most powerfully? Asking these questions, and many others, underpins the notion of spatial justice. Against an ever-evolving economic, political and social backdrop, it is critical that we protect and improve citizens’ […]
Social Care: views from the front line
The Government is committed to immediate action to stabilise the care sector and has instituted the Casey Commission to produce an interim report in 2026 and develop a solution for long-term reform of the sector with broad political support by 2028. We have consulted with a wide range of officers across our network – including […]
Cllr Naomi Tweddle
Key Cities Responds to Autumn Budget 2024
We have already seen real progress since the Labour government came to power. The steps taken to reinstate the national housebuilding target and commitment to planning reform are crucial for delivering much-needed housing and infrastructure ,and align closely with the call to address housing and homelessness in our Key Cities’ manifesto. As a cross-party network […]
