Austerity

By Heather Jameson | 14 March 2019

Government’s choice to target councils for cuts rather than austerity is to blame for local gover...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

How not to handle an announcement

13 March 2019

The launch of a Stronger Towns Fund to give a boost to the Government hasn't exactly gone to plan...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

The trouble with social policy 'evidence'

By Richard Stokoe | 13 March 2019

In making the case for more cash to improve public health based on its ‘evidence of what works’, ...

FINANCE

EXCLUSIVE: Avoiding the precipice

By Heather Jameson | 13 March 2019

As councils seek ways to meet the funding gap, Martin Reeves and Rob Whiteman look at the implica...

What do we want from our public services?

By Heather Jameson | 13 March 2019

Heather Jameson says the cracks in our communities are starting to show, with knife crime, homele...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Hungry kids and foodbanks could become 'normal'

By Ann McGauran | 06 March 2019

Children arriving at school hungry and families queuing up at foodbanks ‘could become part of the...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

It's time to act on child poverty

By Stuart Gallimore | 06 March 2019

We are one of the richest countries in the world, yet poverty levels are rising. Councils must ac...

SOCIAL CARE

Two-thirds of councils say they have brought in or increased charges for social care

05 March 2019

Two-thirds of councils in England who responded to a freedom of information (FOI) request said th...

WHITEHALL

MHCLG yet to agree no-deal Brexit escalation process for care provider failure

By Dan Peters | 27 February 2019

Marsham Street has still not agreed its ‘escalation process’ in the case of a no-deal Brexit caus...

EUROPEAN UNION

Opportunity knocks for Lambeth

By Heather Jameson | 27 February 2019

Lambeth LBC’s chief executive Andrew Travers says that while the council faces pressures and chal...

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