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Everyday community engagement is quietly transforming lives
COHESION

Everyday community engagement is quietly transforming lives

By Caroline Green | 15 September 2025

Frontline officers and grassroots initiatives are fostering integration, wellbeing, and social cohesion, says Caroline Green.

COHESION

Riding out the perfect storm

By Niall Bolger | 11 September 2025

Niall Bolger says communities are in crisis and leaders must respond with compassion, presence an...

COHESION

Flagging up a problem

By Kathy O'Leary | 05 September 2025

Kathy O' Leary says that while the legal guidance stresses that flags are a very British way of e...

POLITICS

New politics, new tensions

By Rob Whiteman | 02 September 2025

As Reform UK gathers this week for its annual conference, Rob Whiteman argues that with the party...

COHESION

Call for Government to work with councils on cohesion

By Martin Ford | 02 September 2025

Pleas have been made to the Government to work with councils amid violence and confrontations bet...

LEGAL

Staying sensible when legal issues get polarised

By Aneeka Muneer | 28 August 2025

Aneeka Muneer considers the role of local government lawyers in balancing law, politics, place an...

COHESION

Taskforce fails to recognise councils' key role in cohesion

By EXCLUSIVE by Paul Marinko | 27 August 2025

Ministers have been accused of failing to recognise the ‘vital role’ of councils in cohesion afte...

LEGAL

Farage: Put pressure on councils to follow Epping Forest

By Dan Peters | 19 August 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged people to 'put pressure' on councils to go to court after...

COHESION

Can Britain's cohesion drive stop the next riot?

By Paul Marinko | 13 August 2025

The Government’s cohesion taskforce promises a fresh approach to healing divisions – but councils...

MINISTRY OF HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

EXCLUSIVE: MHCLG creates cohesion taskforce

By Dan Peters | 06 August 2025

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has created a taskforce to unde...

POLITICS

Home Office recommits to closing asylum hotels

By Joe Lepper | 31 July 2025

The Government has insisted it ‘remains committed’ to ending the use of hotels for asylum accommo...

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Strategic Director – Place-Based Services

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Cambridge is a city of global reputation and local pride – a place of ideas, innovation and inclusion. Apply for this job

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