Councillors

By Dan Peters | 20 January 2015

Chief executives have been urged to provide challenge as well as support to their council’s effor...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Councils serious about forming CA

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 January 2015

Thurrock Council and Southend-on-Sea BC have become the latest councils to openly talk about form...

LEISURE

The customer segmentation challenge

By Lawrence Conway | 19 January 2015

Politicians and officers look differently at the differing needs of residents, but the challenge ...

WHITEHALL

Elected mayors ideal to top combined authorities

By Colin Copus | 15 January 2015

Professor of local politics at De Montfort University, Colin Copus, admits that directly-elected ...

Tower Hamlets election evidence emerges

By Jonathan Werran | 15 January 2015

Some 30 Tower Hamlets LBC staff were instructed to secure 100 votes each for Mayor Lutfur Rahman ...

HUMOUR

Karen's splits personality

13 January 2015

In days gone by ministers would talk about not giving controversial groups ‘the oxygen of publici...

BUSINESS

Search for chief executive is on – again

By MJ reporter | 13 January 2015

The search for Bradford City Council’s new chief executive is set to start again, after councillo...

WHITEHALL

Referendum campaign for elected mayor

By Dan Peters | 13 January 2015

A campaign for a referendum on whether Greater Manchester should have an elected mayor has been l...

CHIEF EXECUTIVES

Rogue tweeters are silenced

By Jamie Hailstone | 13 January 2015

The chief executive of Cheshire East Council has intervened in a row over local authority staff h...

FINANCE

Tri-district partnership to discuss shared chief executive

By Jamie Hailstone | 12 January 2015

A partnership of three district councils in Dorset could be run by one shared chief executive, ac...

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