Communications

12 June 2020

Diary is inundated with press releases, speeches and blog posts on a regular basis.

WHITEHALL

Care home plans deadline unrealistic, say councils

By Dan Peters | 26 May 2020

Councils have warned that tomorrow’s deadline for producing care home support plans is ‘unrealist...

LEGAL

Why localism is needed for behaviour change

By Dan Corry | 20 May 2020

Councils can be key – as can local community groups and charities – in setting social norms that ...

WHITEHALL

Councils resist government's changed 'stay alert' message

By Dan Peters | 15 May 2020

Areas with higher coronavirus rates have urged residents to stay at home amid fears the Governmen...

There is an opportunity to dump the centralist approach

By Heather Jameson | 13 May 2020

Tackling the coronavirus crisis has been held back by a ‘central government know best’ approach, ...

COMMUNICATIONS

Twitter or bitter?

By Donna Ball | 11 May 2020

Senior local government officer Donna Ball says that during the pandemic she has had to block agg...

COMMUNICATIONS

Solving the biggest challenge of our times

By Liz Watts | 21 April 2020

Liz Watts explains how she and South Cambridgeshire DC have responded rapidly to the COVID-19 cri...

THIRD SECTOR

We have an opportunity to re-boot and take stock

By Gill Kneller | 15 April 2020

Local authorities have by necessity become far more introspective than ever before as they've bee...

MANAGEMENT

11 steps to ensuring outstanding internal comms

By Richard Stokoe | 14 April 2020

The importance to councils of outstanding internal communications cannot be underestimated during...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Councils given power to hold meetings remotely

By Laura Sharman | 03 April 2020

Local authorities will be allowed to hold public meetings remotely by video or telephone under ne...

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