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Towards a new rural agenda

Towards a new rural agenda. Crucial time for rural public policy A new rural agenda reflects current thinking across a range of topics, economic development to welfare policy, public services to rural politics Brought together in a new and strategic way, but this is not ‘ the ’ new rural agenda.

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Towards a new rural agenda

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  1. Towards a new rural agenda • Crucial time for rural public policy • A new rural agenda reflects current thinking across a range of topics, economic development to welfare policy, public services to rural politics • Brought together in a new and strategic way, but this is not ‘the’ new rural agenda

  2. Towards a new rural agenda • The report give prominence to a range of wider debates, that are often marginalised • Ideas in the report are suggestions, laying the groundwork for what may become a new rural agenda after wider discussions

  3. Recommendations • Need a clearer articulation of rural policy –the social and economic future • This means public policy that can be signed up to by other central government departments • Mainstream the rural dimension into national policy challenges

  4. An example of how • Mainstreaming decision making • One option – public spend: Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 cross-departmental set of Public Service Agreements on rural policy

  5. Further recommendations • Continued reform and making the most of opportunities – CAP reform and visionary policy for rural development • Engaging with the rural voice and making the rural voice heard: • neighbourhoods and parishes • Regional Rural Affairs Forums

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