Filling in the holes in local democracy
GOVERNANCE

Filling in the holes in local democracy

By Mel Stevens | 08 May 2025

Mel Stevens considers where the new democratic deficits will lie in the new local government landscape.

GOVERNANCE

CfGS conference: Financially struggling councils should 'reach out'

By Ann McGauran | 21 March 2025

Financially struggling councils should ‘reach out for help’, says the interim chief executive of ...

GOVERNANCE

Birmingham's post Oracle scrutiny portal 'should help to better understand risks'

By Ann McGauran | 20 March 2025

A new online information site for scrutiny teams at Birmingham City Council should lead to a bett...

GOVERNANCE

Joining the pieces when holding places to account

By Ed Hammond | 20 March 2025

As delegates gather today in Birmingham for the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny’s annual confe...

GOVERNANCE

Governance: evolution and experimentation

By Ed Hammond | 06 August 2024

Ed Hammond looks at the new Government’s ‘missions-led’ plans for public services and how this wi...

WHITEHALL

Turn and face the changes

By Mel Stevens | 18 June 2024

As we head for a General Election, it’s a good time to reflect on what a new government will need...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Chief executives' development programme launched

By Dan Peters | 14 June 2024

A first-of-its-kind development programme designed to meet the needs and future challenges of chi...

FINANCE

1984 and all that

By Jonathan Werran | 30 April 2024

Forty years from the passing of the Rates Act, how relevant are the provisions designed to give c...

BUSINESS

Oflog should be handed audit oversight, MPs told

By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024

The Office for Local Government (Oflog) should be handed oversight of England’s broken audit regi...

AUDIT

Moving forward after failure

By Ed Hammond | 06 March 2024

Ed Hammond considers the governance challenges facing members under section 114 and other models ...

IMPROVEMENT

Brum blame culture still 'largely unaddressed'

By Heather Jameson | 04 December 2023

Birmingham City Council’s problems of governance and accountability are still ‘largely unaddresse...

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