Boosting jobs for older workers could alleviate social care costs
Social care needs more funding, but the state is missing a trick if it fails to increase employment rates among the more active retirees, says Michael Burton.
Opinion
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Appointment of new Treasury ministers bodes well for the sector
August 20, 2019
Chairman-elect of the County Councils Network David Williams reviews the organisation's key asks in its Five-Point Plan for Local Government - and says Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid's new roles in the Treasury are good news for councils.
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Everyday Britain's silent crisis in care
August 20, 2019
Ben Page says that while Britain is bothering about Brexit and more this summer, hardly anyone is paying attention to the 'much less talked about' crisis in children's services that's 'becoming acute'.
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Putting it on paper
August 20, 2019
An 'extremely long piece of paper' helped her finance team to understand 'what an integral part they have to play for our stakeholders', says Adele Taylor.
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Affecting change in more ways than one
August 20, 2019
Saima Ashraf has journeyed a long way to get to her current position of deputy leader of Barking & Dagenham LBC – and she has used her story to encourage other BME women to aim high within the sector.
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We don’t boost the private sector by decimating the public sector
Government hopes of creating a Northern Powerhouse economy will stall because of an illogical failure to grasp how local authority spending cutbacks stifle investment, argues Joe Anderson.
Time to focus on our skills shortage - not immigration
The ‘debate’ about immigration sparked by last week’s record figures is not so much an exchange of views but a cocktail of prejudices, erroneous facts and targets plucked out the air, writes Michael Burton.