Ged Acton BSC (Hons), PG Cert

Ged has managed a range of community development and regeneration programmes and led
strategic initiatives related to Sustainable Communities Strategies, Local Area Agreements and
developing locality working approaches. He has worked across LSP themes and structures, with a particular focus on establishing productive partnerships with shared commitment and priorities.

Ged is particularly interested in the empowerment agenda and how strategy can realise local action, joining top-down and bottom-up processes to unlock strategic objectives and promote sustainable communities. He is equally able to facilitate exploration of ideas, consensus-building and productive planning with councillors, managers or local residents. Ged has managed a variety of initiatives to evaluate and improve partnership working, using his practical experience to support effective policy development and implementation.

As a Principal Consultant at ERS Ged has managed research studies relating to community empowerment and cohesion, community safety, culture and heritage, health, regeneration and worklessness. The focus of these has been on generating insight and information to inform development of public services to enhance delivery and improve local quality of life.

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Emergency Budget response

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