23 April 2019

The Local Government Association (LGA) has issued a fresh warning that the NHS must not forget councils as it embarks on its Long Term Plan.

11 April 2019

The introduction of the social care precept ‘avoided catastrophe’ but the sector still faces a funding gap of at least £15bn, a senior figure told The MJ’s Future Forum today.

27 March 2019

Tracie Evans says her 'daddy dragon' of the week is not Brexit but the question of what is the optimum number of contractors needed to deliver a very complex organisational transformation.

27 March 2019

Chief executive of Medway Council Neil Davies wants to brand the whole of Medway as a single high-profile waterfront university city. Dan Peters reports

26 March 2019

Councillors on the new Joint Committee for West Northamptonshire will meet for the first time this evening to discuss setting up one of the two new unitary authorities replacing the county council.

25 March 2019

Senior researcher at the Fabian Society Jason Brock argues that a broken planning system is harming the future of our town centres and making Britain’s housing crisis worse.

20 March 2019

Lawrence Conway has one thing to ask following the Brexit outcome - and that's for a look at how national policy is put together and joined up.

19 March 2019

There is ‘much more to do’ to improve the quality of Northamptonshire CC’s services, two Government-appointed commissioners have told Whitehall.

13 March 2019

Mayor of the Tees Valley Combined Authority Ben Houchen says bringing the local airport back into public ownership means the conurbation is ready to compete – not just with other UK city regions, but globally

11 February 2019

Health and social care services in Edinburgh would be ‘jeopardised’ by proposed funding shortfalls, it has been claimed.

05 February 2019

The integration of health and social care needs to ‘happen faster,’ a report has concluded.

22 January 2019

Financially troubled Surrey CC has outlined plans to raise council tax by the maximum 2.99%.

17 January 2019

Value still exists in the retail sector, but councils need to understand where to look in order to secure a strong return.  By being savvy, they can mitigate the risk and maximise the opportunity, according to James Duncan

12 December 2018

The transformation programme underpinning Surrey CC’s return to financial sustainability has ‘a medium to high risk of slippage,’ the troubled county’s auditors will warn councillors today.

11 December 2018

Some of the extra £55m Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) announced by the chancellor in the Budget may have to be handed back by councils.

06 December 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) will not reduce the size of the local government workforce, a top private sector figure has predicted.

06 December 2018

Transformational leadership was the key to Manchester’s response to the arena bombing, says the city council’s chief executive, Joanne Roney.

04 December 2018

A survey of local authority chief executives and directors by The MJ and BT found strong resistance to transformational change among their management teams. The issues were discussed at a round table with senior staff in the Midlands

04 December 2018

Local government may seem like a plane running on fumes, but #OurDay made clear that local public services are run with passion and determination, writes Dr Andrew Larner.

15 November 2018

There is still a ‘long way to go’ to achieve integrated health and social care in Scotland, an audit report has found.