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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Jenrick launches plans to kickstart housing market

By Heather Jameson | 13 May 2020

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has restarted the housing market as part of the Government’s pla...

COMMUNICATIONS

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, ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Reinventing recruitment for a more sustainable future

13 May 2020

Local government has shown it can move faster and better when the bureaucracy is stripped away an...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Early intervention: adapting to a world in lockdown

By Jack Martin | 13 May 2020

The Early Intervention Foundation has carried out an intense effort to gather as much information...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Playing our part to support the most vulnerable

By Tim Aldridge | 13 May 2020

Tim Aldridge outlines how his team in Newham has responded to the challenge of working during the...

CLIMATE CHANGE

So you've declared a climate emergency: what next?

By Dr Peter Kenway | 13 May 2020

Paul O’Brien and Dr Peter Kenway warn that, while the eyes of the world have focused on COVID-19,...

COMMUNITIES

A reawakening of society?

By Nathan Elvery | 13 May 2020

Nathan Elvery says that through the daily accounts of heroic action during the COVID-19 crisis, s...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Daring to be bold on net zero

By Robert Spencer | 13 May 2020

How can local government adapt its path to net zero as society emerges from COVID-19, asks Robert...

DIGITAL

What are you imagining?

By Dr Catherine Howe | 13 May 2020

As councils re-examine their transformation plans in the light of the possibilities on the other ...

COVID

Let's have the humility to learn

By Jonathan Carr-West | 13 May 2020

We need to learn from this crisis, says Dr Jonathan Carr-West – in terms of both the disease its...