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HUMAN RESOURCES
Councillor-officer relations coming under pressure
By Martin Ford | 20 December 2023
Relations between councillors and officers are being tested by the increasing financial pressures...
REORGANISATION
Councils moved through crisis with warmth and grace
By Mo Baines | 08 November 2023
Local government’s regulatory decision-making framework may often be perceived by those outside o...
SAFETY
It is time for local government to call out unworkable pseudo-market systems
By Mo Baines | 13 September 2023
Writing on the RAAC debacle, Mo Baines says not so long ago the public estate was managed by loca...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Offering a toolkit for levelling up
By Mo Baines | 10 July 2023
A new report from APSE offers some stark findings on levelling up - and some solutions, says Mo B...
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
Evidence on the need to re-set the system continues to pile up
By Arianna Giovannini | 04 July 2023
This is the core of the centre’s problem: its lack of understanding of the huge untapped potentia...
BUSINESS
Is it time for insourcing by default?
By Mo Baines | 13 June 2023
Is it time for a new era of public service value? Mo Baines looks at the value of insourcing and ...
ELECTIONS
Officers' skills will be tested post-elections
By Mo Baines | 16 May 2023
Mo Baines says 'as most horse-trading nears to an end, in those councils left with no overall con...
SOCIAL CARE
Retention – a top priority for the sector
By Steve Wilson | 02 May 2023
Commercial director of Commercial Services Group Steve Wilson looks at the capacity issues facing...
DATA
Oflog is likely to keep meeting serious opposition
By Mo Baines | 21 March 2023
The fear within the Oflog proposals is that this will become just another box-ticking exercise - ...
BUSINESS
Give councils the core role in local public accounts committees
By Mo Baines | 25 January 2023
If the aims of the Public Procurement Bill are to become a reality, isn't it time to give local ...
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