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COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
A new Government provides the opportunity for long-term reform
By Simon Edwards | 15 January 2024
The SEN system and the broken children’s social care residential market are the main drivers of ...
FINANCE
Stormy waters ahead
By Mark Conrad | 08 January 2024
Mark Conrad talks to three major groups of councils about what the provisional finance settlement...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The next step for children's services
By Dominic Luscombe | 08 January 2024
Dominic Luscombe asks if the new Data Strategy and Children’s Social Care reform strategy are opp...
FINANCE
Call for MPs' help over 'inadequate' settlement
By Martin Ford | 18 December 2023
Councils are to turn to MPs to make the case to the Government following the announcement of an ‘...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Devo and Christmas ghosts of past, present and future
By Alun Hughes | 14 December 2023
Alun Hughes spins a Christmas story about devolution, with Greg Clark as the ghost of Christmas p...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
No Christmas cheer from Gove the Grinch
By Heather Jameson | 13 December 2023
In a year that Michael Gove handed £1.9bn in departmental underspends back to the Treasury, and t...
FINANCE
One in five councils 'likely' to issue section 114
By Martin Ford | 06 December 2023
Almost one in five councils believe bankruptcy is likely within two years, while doubt hangs over...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Using data to make better decisions for our children
By Debbie Barnes | 04 December 2023
Dominic Luscombe and Debbie Barnes look at how an approach to capturing and tracking children’s n...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
Public services out in the cold
By Michael Burton | 27 November 2023
There was little joy for under-pressure public sector budgets including local government from las...
FINANCE
Sector unites in plea to chancellor
By Martin Ford | 22 November 2023
The local government sector in England has put out a call to Jeremy Hunt to ‘address the signific...
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Service Manager, Early Help and Best Start in Life
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