Designing a better framework for public scrutiny
FINANCE

Designing a better framework for public scrutiny

By Tracy Bingham | 08 May 2025

For participation and oversight over council finances, we need to get behind Research for Action's call to make council budget and monitoring data widely available and support residents to engage w...

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 land...

PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM

A shared definition of 'neighbourhoods' is important

By Jessica Studdert | 08 May 2025

Jessica Studdert says that for real impact at a hyperlocal level, neighbourhoods need to be consi...

ELECTIONS

Councils will bear the consequences of Reform's victory

By Heather Jameson | 08 May 2025

When it comes to local government reorganisation, 'the Labour Government could well be less gung-...

PREVENTION

Prioritising prevention

By Cllr Beverley Egan | 07 May 2025

Cllr Beverley Egan looks at the actions for radical change emerging from the independent Essex Ca...

GOVERNANCE

A bite-sized approach to FOI

By Deborah Clark | 07 May 2025

Deborah Clark outlines the latest tools aimed at cutting the inappropriate use of exemptions in F...

POLICY AND POLITICS

A time for unity, not division

By Matthew Taylor | 07 May 2025

There is still time to press for more collaborative place working across the public sector, write...

ELECTIONS

Local elections 2025: Surveying the wreckage

By Paul Wheeler | 06 May 2025

Reform's tidal wave of gains in last week's local elections could just be the start of seismic ch...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Closing up the support gap

By Jo Casebourne | 06 May 2025

Jo Casebourne examines why mentoring and befriending matters for young people - and what local le...

COMBINED AUTHORITY

Nurturing the rural

By Tom McCabe | 02 May 2025

Tom McCabe looks at the role of rural combined authorities, and says it is time for a mayoral age...

FINANCE

Carrying the burden

By Adele Taylor | 02 May 2025

It's time for the Government to deliver on promises to alleviate administrative burdens, writes A...

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Senior Lawyer - WMF2031e

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