Building economic resilience

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

Tameside has a well rounded approach to economic resilience against the recession. Centred on Tameside Works First initiative, the council has shown innovative approaches to engaging heads in schools, pupils and their families.

The council is particularly strong in partnership with the third sector, engagement with communities and has a very comprehensive strategy. Tameside has demonstrated outstanding community involvement and has proved to be proactive with the recession issues in their locality.

Watch Tameside’s building economic resilience video to find out more about the council’s innovative projects in this area.

Learning and support

Download the Building Economic Resilience leaflet (PDF, 4 pages, 273KB) to learn more about Tameside’s innovative work and to find out how they can support councils to improve their local economic resilience. Tameside is offering support, learning and peer-to-peer knowledge transfer under the following six themes:

• personal resilience
• skills and employment resilience
• business resilience
• community resilience
• environmental resilience
• future resilience

Find out more by downloading Tameside's application (PDF, 8 pages, 31KB) and supporting evidence (PDF, 24 pages, 2784KB).

How to use this resource

Building economic resilience video - watch a short video and learn more about the council’s economic resilience projects

About the theme – find out more about the 'building economic resilience' theme

Contacts  - Local Government Improvement and Development and Tameside's contact details