The impacts of social infrastructure investment

Social infrastructure can play an important role in supporting the levelling-up agenda in local areas. It creates institutions and physical spaces that foster personal relationships, civic engagement and social networks, leading to more cohesive and healthier societies.

Frontier Economics was commissioned by Local Trust to bring together existing evidence to provide an independent assessment of the economic basis for investment in social infrastructure and to quantify the potential scale of the economic, social and fiscal returns from these investments.