RURAL PRACTIONERS LACK CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT’S RURAL POLICY
80% of the region’s key players in rural affairs think that the Government’s vision and delivery plan for rural areas is not going to work. That was the outcome of a special one day conference in York yesterday (14 March) when Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, together with some of the UK’s senior rural experts addressed the issue of whether government policy will create and maintain strong, safe and prosperous rural communities.
Titled ‘80/20 Rural Vision’ the conference was organised jointly by Humber and Wolds and Yorkshire Rural Community Councils. It attracted around one hundred of the region’s key players in rural affairs including policy makers, voluntary sector workers, advisers and members of organisations working to support people who live and work in rural areas. A show of hands vote at the end of the conference found that four out of every five delegates felt that the Government isn’t taking more notice of rural issues and that its policy to ‘mainstream’ delivery of schemes isn’t going to work for the benefit of people living and working in rural areas. Read more…
Feedback received following the conference has been excellent
“Congratulations Humber and Wolds and Yorkshire Rural Community Councils and the former Regional Coordinator, Stephen Fox, for making this happen. An important conference at a regional level with core support from the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward”
“A very interesting, informative and stimulating day”
“Excellent, so pleased I attended”
Some of the presentations from the day are available – click on the link below to download
Ann Woodward East Riding of Yorkshire-Council
Nigel Curry Countryside CommResearch Institute
Sylvia Brown ACRE Rural Vision
ACRE Rural vision March 2008 static
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