So now it’s official. For years I have been able to pretend to myself that I was the important Cllr Kemp! I was content that I was allowed to give that impression as I sat on this body and that [...]

M*A*S*H famously lasted longer than [...]

  On Monday 20th May, Laura Wilkes, LGiU Policy Manager gave oral evidence to the DCLG Select Committee Inquiry on Community Budgets, alongside Sir Merrick Cockell, Chairman and Paul Raynes, [...]

The CfPS 10th anniversary annual conference: ‘Decide, Design, Deliver: accountable policies, services and outcomes is being held on 11-12 June 2013 at Local Government House, Westminster [...]

The relationship between meetings [...]

Peter Drucker famously said,”Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”. Succinct and memorable though this is, it may not tell you, as a [...]

This blog may seem more incoherent than most! I am writing it in Dubai Airport in the middle of the night after 2 beers but I wanted to record the impressions of the day that I have had. I [...]

I wrote an article entitled “50 [...]

The local elections have come and gone but win, lose or draw does it really matter to local government officers? After all, it is central government that makes the polices and [...]

A FRIEND OF MINE once worked out that by the time he had paid his two mortgages (one for him, one for his ex-wife), maintenance, food, travel and bills, he had £35 left from his university [...]