Michael Burton casts a personal view on the major highlights of last week’s LGA conference
Underlying tensions between health and care remain. Some cross-fertilisation of skills and unders...
A quarter of a century ago leaders of the three main authority associations decided that into one...
The challenge for local authorities is to ensure they can continue to be enterprising, outward-fa...
local government needs to be realistic about the feasibility of relying on business rate for its ...
Borrowing continues to reduce and is at its lowest since just before the recession, but total deb...
Occasionally a crisis will happen that exposes our trust in the competence of politicians to be e...
As the Government begins the tortuous negotiations for Brexit, local authorities are concerned ab...
Local government employment is at its lowest in 18 years while the number of Whitehall civil serv...
The Government is heavily exposed to backbench revolts – not just on Brexit but on public sector ...
