Centre for Thriving Places

Working hard for a brighter tomorrow? Let us help you - we bring together communities, sectors & leaders to create a shared plan, backed up by the evidence & data to make solutions stick. And we'll be your trusted guides, all the way.

#Placemaking #LocalGovernment #RegionalGovernment #Thrive

Every place is different. But everywhere people are working flat out to deliver...

🤝 Local, decent jobs
🌬️ Cleaner air
🌳 Access to green spaces
🤗 More cohesive, harmonious communities
🏡 Affordable, safe and warm homes
🏥 Good healthcare that's more accessible

...and more besides.

Place-based Consultancy - Centre for Thriving Places Everyone deserves to live in a place where they can thrive. Our multidisciplinary teams provide expert guidance, insight, practical tools and bespoke support to transform how places work so they…

Now, in 2026 and beyond, we can help YOU re-wire local economies to ensure every village, town, city in your region becomes a vibrant and welcoming place to live in. www.centreforthrivingplaces.org/our-services...

Two years into a thriving places approach - Centre for Thriving Places Taking a rigorous evidence-based approach to improving health and wellbeing was seen as a priority by the Mid Essex Alliance. Find out what happened two years down the line, after it engaged Centre…

In 2025 we worked closely with 6 pioneering combined authorities, 22 local authorities & 15 VCSE organisations, alongside place-makers who take the notion of serving their communities to the next level. See here, from the Mid Essex Alliance: www.centreforthrivingplaces.org/thriving-pla...

Our Services - Centre for Thriving Places The Thriving Places Approach The Thriving Places Approach is a broad set of services that can transform how places work. Centre for Thriving Places has decades of learning and experience to help you…

People everywhere can sense the old systems around them failing - yet we all still hold onto visions of a better, fairer & more equitable world. Of healthier and happier futures. If you, as a local leader can see this vision: we will help you build it. www.centreforthrivingplaces.org/our-services/

CALLING ALL LOCAL LEADERS >>> Question. Can 2026, a year that has started like no other, be a year in which we build thriving places and communities? 🌱 🌍 Absolutely, YES - and we are here to help you deliver it.

#Essex #MidEssexAlliance #Placemaking

👉 Want to know what we do, here at Centre for Thriving Places? Read all about our work, over two years and counting, with the The Mid Essex Alliance. Working to understand of the conditions that drive the ability of residents to live thriving lives. www.centreforthrivingplaces.org/thriving-pla...

We are holding a sold out webinar with 85 local authority officers on the levers they can pull, to end extraction from the social care sector in their areas. Want to know more? Sign up here for a summary, post event: www.centreforthrivingplaces.org/rore-extract...

#EndExtraction #SocialCare #RORE

The dawn of 'hyper local' is here - why yet another national Budget won't improve daily life Exciting emerging new leaders are focusing their messages on the transformation of local communities - not on shifting money from one national pot to another. Should the government take note? In a doo...

The Budget is underway. But around the world, people are getting excited about changes that are being promised at a hyper-local level. Is it the dawn of a new age? 🌅

Read the blog from our founder @lizzeidler.bsky.social 👇
www.linkedin.com/pulse/dawn-h...

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The level of wealth extraction from social care just isn't right. See @lizzeidler.bsky.social on today's report + an up & coming webinar for those changemaking local authority officers out there, who want to make a difference. 2 Dec: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-ext...

Today we ask: is the UK being care-less, with the £50bn it spends on social care💔?

Read our new report from RORE (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com, as covered by @journo-jess.bsky.social .

£millions are ending up:

in private equity cos
in orgs based in tax havens 🏝️

Our thanks to @journo-jess.bsky.social for investigating this important story, and all the work she does on extraction from local economies.

Hear hear! what a joint team 👏

Ending Extraction in the UK Care System: What Local Authorities Can Do This webinar is a practical session presenting key insights from the publication on care sector profit extraction and its impact.

Do you work for a local or combined authority? Want to know what you can do within the existing system? We are here to help.

Sign up for RORE's FREE webinar on 2 Dec @ 4pm.

With more than 70% of LA spending going into social care - it is time for change:

✍️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-ext...

As the author @anncleeves.bsky.social says (whose latest Vera book is set in a children's home with offshore private equity owners) - imagine how many lives could be changed, if we just changed our approach and belief in what's possible.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The social care system can be re-wired to meet the needs of more vulnerable people who need help.

Doing so, would build a strong, more cohesive Britain.

#RORE

That in the #WestMidlands, £103m has been made in profit from social and children's care over 3 years, with a fifth - £23.8m - made by providers owned by private equity orgs, companies based in tax havens, or by orgs that fall into both brackets.

NB @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social

That in the #NorthEast, £94m has been made in profit from social and children's care over 3 years. Of which over a third (£34.5m) has been made by providers owned by private equity orgs, companies based in tax havens, or by orgs that fall into both brackets.

That in #SouthYorkshire, £59m has been made in profit from social and children's care over 3 years. Of which HALF has been made by providers owned by private equity orgs, based in tax havens, or by orgs that fall into both brackets.

Our report focused on care services in just 3 regions:

the North East
South Yorkshire
the West Midlands

(all combined authority regions).

In these regions alone, #RORE found.

RORE Extraction Report - Centre for Thriving Places Ending extraction in the UK care system RORE’s landmark report, Ending Care Extraction in the UK, reveals that private companies operating care services in just three UK regions have extracted over £2...

Read the new #RORE report here (Reclaiming Our Local Economies): www.centreforthrivingplaces.org/rore-extract...

Via:
@thrivingplaces.bsky.social
@clesthinkdo.bsky.social
@neweconomics.bsky.social
@cooperativesuk.bsky.social

#CareLessAccounting - it's time to re-wire our economy.

In our view, it isn't right to trade upon health for wealth.

The UK's social care sector offers a vital service - and shouldn't be treated as a market with assets to buy and sell.

Because, as our director @lizzeidler.bsky.social says...

...those assets are people.

If you agree, please share.

Nor that debt would be accumulated, through practices such as the buying and selling of properties - and passed on directly to the people scraping the funds together to buy care support.

#CareLessAccounting #SocialCareExtraction #RORE

Nor would you expect that 80% of the largest care home providers in the West Midlands, the North East and South Yorkshire, would turn out to be owned by organisations based in tax havens.

8 in 10 - that's nearly all of them.

#CareLessAccounting #SocialCareExtraction #RORE

We’re angry - you should be too.

If you've had to pay a fortune to put loved ones through care. You have a SEND child whose needs are not met. Or you went through the care system as a kid.

You would not expect money for the services designed to help, to be ripped away as profit. ⛴️🏝️⛴️ 🏝️⛴️🏝️⛴️ 🏝️

…"There’s no money to improve care!"

And yet hundreds of millions of pounds of public money is being extracted as profit.

💷 Is this #CareLessAccounting? 💷

Joint #RORE analysis by:
@thrivingplaces.bsky.social
@clesthinkdo.bsky.social
@neweconomics.bsky.social
@cooperativesuk.bsky.social

Local Authorities spend 70% of annual budgets on care services. Yet not all that investment is channelled into high quality jobs or comprehensive care nor kept in our local economies. We hear again and again, that…

Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds

NEW: £250m+ has been taken as profit over 3yrs, by private companies running social care services in 3 English regions. By:
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...