Home of real opportunity

This Mayoral Combined Authority will work to create opportunity for all, ensuring inclusive growth and good public services are spread across the North East. Our region is a great place to live and work, but too many people face challenges to success. We will implement polices which help to overcome those challenges – from skills training to child support.

The Mayoral Combined Authority will invest in the foundations of the economy and remove barriers that prevent people succeeding. This work will be done in partnership with businesses, local authorities and trade unions, and will be designed around the needs of the people of the North East.

We will help our residents to thrive by providing all-age career support, starting in schools. We’ll help people progress by funding skills programmes relevant to our region.

Our employment support programmes will help residents with multiple and complex needs at a personal level, providing training and help with transport costs. By investing in our residents we will also ensure that we have a skills base that enables growth in the North East economy, both in terms of our existing sectors and our emerging strengths.

But we will also support people at the neighbourhood level. We will see that in action as we explore support for the expansion of Sure Start-style services across the region, improved housing for all, work with schools on education improvement, and backing community groups with access to funds. Public service reform will be central to our plans to reduce child poverty and support families.

We’ll see this opportunity mission in action at a regional level in our growing cultural and sporting sectors, with Mayoral Combined Authority support to ensure everyone can participate. 


In the short term we will deliver:

A North East Child Poverty Reduction Unit.

Develop plans for a Mayor’s childcare grant for people returning to work.

A Mayor’s opportunity fund and social finance fund.

Launch a High Streets Commission to better support the local economy.

A New Deal for North East Workers, bringing together our skills support, job creation and good employer campaigns under one focused brand, supported by our Skills and Employment strategies.

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