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Jon Czul says scrapping Police and Crime Commissioners will not, in itself, improve public safety, but that if the transition is handled carefully it could create the conditions for a more joined-u...

REGENERATION

Ensuring people take pride of place

By Andrew Laird | 17 March 2026

To successfully deliver the Pride in Place programme communities need to be prioritised in both g...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Think-tank in reorganisation democracy warning

By Joe Lepper | 19 February 2026

Action is needed to preserve local democracy amid local government reorganisation and devolution,...

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

Turning a moment into a movement

By Dan Crowe | 22 January 2026

3ni has working up and down the country to turn the Government’s Pride in Place programme into 's...

REORGANISATION

Five keys to making reorganisation work

By Ian Fytche | 22 October 2025

Ian Fytche makes the case for framing a proposal for reorganisation based on five principles of h...

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

How community power can renew the social contract in local government

By Jessica Studdert | 18 September 2025

Cynicism threatens democracy, but local government can lead renewal, says Jessica Studdert.

FINANCE

Selling the family silver

By Joe Fyans | 16 September 2025

A new approach to council asset management is needed that takes greater account of community cohe...

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

There goes the neighbourhood

By Nicola Steuer | 16 September 2025

Neighbourhoods have returned to the policy agenda and it’s time to empower them, says Nicola Steuer.

DEVOLUTION

Cross-border lessons in devo

By Heather Jameson | 11 June 2025

Devolution may be new for some English authorities, but it is a quarter of a century on in Scotla...

DEVOLUTION

McGuinness calls for devolution acceleration

By Joe Lepper | 23 May 2025

Labour’s North East Mayor Kim McGuinness has called on her Government to accelerate devolution by...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Time to empower the places that matter

By Ravi Gurumurthy | 16 May 2025

Labour's Neighbourhood Commission is not just good politics, but good policy says Ravi Gurumurthy.

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